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MANUAL OF MODERN VITICULTURE. 



Seeds flat, with very short beak ; chalaze circular and pro- 

 truding ; raphe in the shape of a string, rather wide near the 

 chalaze, protruding up to the level of the top depression. 



Fig. 9. Leaves of V. Monticola (after M. Mazade). 



According to P. Viala, the V. Monticola grows on the 

 dry table-lands of the mountains of Texas. It grows fairly 



