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and numerous ramifications ; continuous tendrils of medium 

 length, bifurcated, becoming purple as they get older. 

 Small pointed buds, covered with rusty down. Young leaves 

 with carmine mid-rib towards the extremity of the under-face, 

 trilobed, covered with a light down on both faces, which 

 quickly disappears; teeth long, undulating. When the 

 leaves become flat, which takes place rather late, bunches of 

 green flowers may be seen wrapped in a white, lanuginous 

 down. Leaves medium or large, entire, rarely trilobed, 

 inferior lobe always marked by a larger tooth, petiolar sinus 

 slightly open, parenchyma thin ; deep green, shining and 

 glabrous on the upper-face, under-face covered with a dense 

 white felt, becoming slightly rusty coloured. Straight veins 

 protruding underneath, bright red tint at their point of in- 

 sertion on the upper face. Teeth generally blunt in two 

 series ; petiole straight, covered with stiff hair, and turning 

 purple as it gets older, forming an obtuse angle with the 

 plane of the leaf. Flowers large, cylindrical, elongated, 

 flattened on the top, odoriferous, of a light green, with a 

 finely indented calyx not much developed, stamens with 

 long, slender filaments ; nectariferous corona slightly de- 

 tached, of a yellowish green colour, globular ovary with a 

 slender style, rather long, and surmounted by a large 

 stigma, often bifidate. Large bunches, cylindrical or coni- 

 cal ; with large peduncle, ligneous and swollen at the point 

 of insertion, dirty green, rather short and contorted. Small 

 pedicels, short, green, with a few warts, berries detaching 

 easily, and leaving a colourless adherent brush. Berries 

 loose, with thick skin and fleshy pulp ; colourless juice, with 

 foxy taste. Cepage of medium fertility. 



(C). FORMS DERIVED FROM V. RUPESTRIS. 

 The forms generally used for reconstitution are the R. du 

 Lot, R. Martin, R. Ganzin, R* Mission, R. of Fortworth, 

 R. Metallica, Riparia x Rupestris 3306, 3309 and 101-14, 

 Rupestris with Taylor habit. 



RUPESTRIS DU LOT. 



Synonyms: R. Sijas, R. Phdnomene, R. Monticola* 

 R. Saint- Georges, R. Lacastelle, R. Colineau, <fv. 

 This form sppm<* to hare been imported near Montpellier 



** The name R. Monticola, given to this form, snould be discarded, as it would seem to 

 imply that it is the result of a crossing between V. Rupestris and V. Monticola, which is 

 very improbable. 



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