VINE FAMILY 



siderably as to lobes and margin but underneath are densely 

 covered with a tawny, dun-colored, or red-brown tomentum. 

 This characteristic persists in many of the cultivated varieties. 

 The blossoms are both fertile and sterile upon the same plant; 

 the corolla never opens, the small greenish petals grow together 

 at the tip and fall without separating. The perfume of the 

 blooming grape is subtle and delicious as all who have grape- 

 vines know. The fruiting raceme is short, carrying less than 

 twenty berries in the wild type; the berries, large a,nd nearly 

 spherical, ranging from purple-black, the common color, to red- 

 brown and amber-green; variable in taste, but mostly sweetish, 

 musky, and sometimes slightly astringent. 



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