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by human beings as well as animals. It was not ripe when I 
found it, but it is said to be sweet and delicious 
mon Mountain, I found a very peculiar wild grape (Vitis 
blanco Munson), the leaves and young growth very white-woolly 
and the plant more inclined to form beds upon rocks than to 
climb high. The tendrils are very long and stout, shortly- 
branched and tender and juicy, and very much inclined to bear 
small bunches of flowers and fruits at the ends of these branches. 
The flowers are of a dull purple, several times larger than those 
of any of our own grapes, wild or cultivated, and thick and fleshy. 
The clusters, like the individual fruits, are very large, ae short 
and broad, of a deep-purple red, and contain a few very large 
seeds. The pulp is characterized iy being highly ase 
very sour and intensely “foxy.’’ So great is this acrid effect, 
that if a number of fruits are eaten, it will leave the mouth sore 
and almost bleeding. It seems possible that through hybridiza- 
tion some of the properties of this fruit might be advantageously 
incorporated into our cultivated varieties. 
In the lava beds previously mentioned, and growing among 
the dahlias, I found a very large currant bush (Ribes Pringlet 
Rose), almost a small tree, of erect, pyramidal habit, which bore 
very large racemes of correspondingly large currants. The 
fruit was not ripe at the time, so I can say nothing of its 
characte 
In oo cafions of Oaxaca near Cuicatlan, I found another 
species of grape, in flower in February, and in July I found in the 
same locality a species of mulberry which is apparently not de- 
ribed. The tree is of small size and of dense growth. The 
foliage has almost the form of Morus celtidifolia, butis soft-woolly 
or hairy instead of rough. The fruit is small and short, having 
much the form and size of a large raspberry, of very few fruitlets, 
and of a pinkish-yellow color. Its sweetness is slight and it is 
rather insipi 
On Limon ‘A ouitein I collected a delicious sweet fruit re- 
sembling in appearance a deep blue olive, which proves to be 
an undescribed species of Mayepea, in the olive family. 
ne of the strangest pieces of information that I received 
