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the different conditions in which they are found. Specimens ought to 
collected in flower, exhibiting also the young shoots and developing leaves, 
and, from the same stock, in fruit, if fruit they bear; and ripe seed should 
be obtained; the soil, the locality, the accompanying plants, and the size 
of the vine ought to be noted, the difference in shape and size of the leaves 
of young shoots and of bearing branches is often important; the exact 
time of flowering, and the period of maturity are interesting data; the size, 
color, and taste of the fruit, the presence or absence of the bloom on the 
ripe berry; the usual number of seeds in each, the conditions and color 
of the pulp,—all are points not to be neglected. It is not expected 
that species can be founded on the variations in all these characters, but 
as possible in all their bearings. Thus far I have only seen vines with 
t with staminate flowers; purely pistillate ones may perhaps 
be discovered by acute observe 
The species now known ae ear ists in the territory of the United 
States, but several of them not sufficiently defined, are the following : 
1. Grape-vines with large Berries. 
ITIS VULPINA Linn., the Southern Fox-grape, Or Muscadine, with 
Several cultivated ia wp as the Scuppernong, ete. 
2. Vitis Laprusca Linn. ., the North-eastern Fox-grape, with numerous ~ 
cola varieties, such as the Catawba, Isabella, Concord, Hartford 
3. Vitis canpicans Engelm., the Mustang grape of Texas. 
2. Grape-vines with smaller Berries. 
Itis Cartneza DC., of Southern Florida and the West Indies. 
a. 
6. Viris astivatis Michx , the Summer grape of the Mi ddle and the 
z 'h 
No. 5, and var. cane 
Nirone V Valley approaches No. 7; several cultivated varieties, ag as 
ome Nigam Seedling, and the Cynthiana grape, are among 0 r best 
ne-grape 
"i Vitis common a Michx., the sour Winter or Chicken-grape of the 
raster States > and 8 variety fetida of the Mississippi Valley, often 4-6 
es in diameter, iy the highest trees, and bearing fetidly aro- 
ee Nov y I beheve in cultivation. 
iea RIPARIA Mic ew , the River-bank grape, throùghout the United 
to the Mississippi: the only grape in East Canada, where it ex- 
tends Sixty miles north of Quebec heb a wm grape in R 
Ane: j ly 
t. Louis. 
aie ARIZONICA, n. sp., and as yet doubtful be at pq with 
aves, and Se ti = þerrits. 
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