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Berries : very small, with a thin bloom, or shilling black, with a pure 

 refreshing vinous taste, intensely acid till very ripe or frosted. 



Seeds: small to very small, chalaza and raphe generally prominent, 

 depressed in V. Virginiana in all specimens seen. 



Germination, foliation, inflorescence, and ripening of fruit very late ; 

 cuttings, growing with difficulty except in V. Blancoii, easily ; native in 

 low bottoms, or on upland limestone soils. 



f 19. Vitis Virginiana, Munson. Mountain Valleys south- 

 west Virginia. 



20. ViUs Berlandieri, Planchon. (V. monticola, Mil.) 



21. Vitis cinerea, Engelmann. Texas, Indian Territory, Mis- 

 7. Cinerascentes i souri, Illinois, Tennessee, var. Floridana, Munson, 



Florida. 



22. Vitis Caribwa, D. C, eastern Mexico, and West Indies. 

 I 23. Vitis Blancoii, Munson. Sierra Madre Mountains, western 

 I Mexico. 



Section II.— PUNCTICTTLOSIS, Munson. 



.Bark : closely adherent, punctate ; pith firm, greenish, continuous 

 through the nodes (without diaphragms) ; tendrils simple; flower clus- 

 ters somewhat cymose ; seeds oval elliptical ; rim of chalaza depressed, 

 wrinkled transversely. 



Series 1. Muscadiniee, Munson. 



Tine : slender, climbing moderately ; tips of growing shoots very 

 naked of leaves, these unfolding quickly from the bud but enlarge 

 slowly. 



Roots: one year seedlings non axial, enlarging downward a foot or 

 more from the collar, transversely wrinkled, punctate, pale yellow, re- 

 sistant ; taste pungent. 



Wood: hard, short-jointed, angled; tendrils intermittent; buds very 

 small, globose, brown, when unfolding dull brownish green. 



Leaves: cordate or round, not lobed, but coarsely toothed, plane; 

 basal sinus A-shaped ; both faces smooth lively green. 



Cluster: small, loose; peduncle short; pedicel short, medium thick. 



Berries: small in V. Munsoniana, shining black, without pulp or musky 

 odor or taste, to very large and pulpy, with muskiness, in V. rotundi- 

 folia, shedding easily in V. rotundifolia when ripe, less so in V, Mun- 

 soniana. 



Seeds: very large to medium in V. rotundifolia, very small in V. Mun- 

 soniana. 



Germination, foliation, inflorescence, and ripening of fruit, very late; 

 growth from cuttings very difficult, from layers easy; resistant to all 

 maladies ; native in rich, well-drained bottom lands or low uplands. 



c 24. Vitis rotundifolia, Michaux. All Southern States East of 100° 

 1. Muscadiniee. < longitude and South of 38° latitude. 



( 25. Vitis Munsoniana, Simpson. Central and South Florida. 



