148 NOMENCLATURE OF GRAPES. 



point. I have already remarked in speaking of the foregoing 

 variety that this is often confused with it, and in fact the two 

 are often called by the titles of each other even in some of the 

 wine districts of France. I take this to be the variety from 

 which the best claret wine is made. 



GOUAIS BLANC, Dun. PR. CAT. No. 331. 



Gouas. Bourgeois. 



Gros-blanc. Mouillet. 



Plant madame. Verdin blanc. 



Vitis' uvd media, sublaxd, acino subrotundo, albido. 



The leaf is entire and not distinctly lobed, but is bordered 

 by a large festoon with irregular teeth ; the petiole is some- 

 what slender, and of a grayish colour. The bunch is of me 

 dium size, formed of pretty large berries of a whitish green 

 colour, having a little resemblance to those of the white fron- 

 tignac or muscat blanc, but less closely set on the bunch. 

 This grape is known by a variety of names, the principal ones 

 of which I have enumerated. It ripens about the middle of 

 September in this latitude. 



BLACK GAMET. PR. CAT. No. 32. 



Garnet noir. Chambonat. 



Game ncrir, Duh. Saumoritte. 



Vitis uvd media, acino nigricante. 



This grape yields almost universally very abundant crops. 

 In certain districts of France and in particular expositions, it 

 enters largely into the composition of the best wines. In 

 other places the cultivators extirpate it from their plantations. 

 Every point in this variety denotes a vigorous vegetation ; 

 its leaf is thick, of a dark green hue, bordered with large fes- 

 toons whose edges are irregularly indented, but not divided 

 into distinct lobes. It ripens here before or about the middle 

 of September, is exceedingly hardy, and of the easiest cul- 

 ture. 



