468 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
smooth or slightly pubescent above; abundantly white, downy 
or woolly, and ferruginous along the veins, beneath; down 
often tawny; principal veins 5, and, with the secondary veins 
and veinlets, prominent; young leaves with a rusty down, par- 
ticularly on the nerves and veins, on both surfaces. T'endrils 
slender, once or twice divided. The racemes of flowers are 
short, with usually one short branch, the flowers crowded in 
umbels. 
The fruit of this vine varies much in size, color, and time of 
maturity, as well asin taste. The berries are from one half to 
three quarters of an inch in diameter. 
One of the most remarkable varieties is the Summer White 
Grape or Early White. In appearance, it presents some pecu- 
liarities. ‘The leaves are on rather long, bristly and downy foot- 
stalks, with a rusty down closely covering the under surface. 
The fruit is two thirds or three quarters of an inch in diameter, 
round, pale green, or of the translucent color of the Malaga 
grape, when just ripe, afterwards turning red. It is, in some 
varieties, very agreeable to the taste. It ripens in the last of 
July and in August and September. I have gathered some 
of this variety in the woods, decidedly superior to the Isabella 
grape. 
Another very common variety is the Early or Summer Fox 
Grape. Of this the fruit is about seven eighths of an inch in 
diameter, of a very deep glossy purple, almost black, with a 
bluish bloom, pleasant to the taste, mpe in the end of August 
or in September. 
A more common variety is the late Fox Grape. This has a 
dark purple, almost black, berry, quite large, sometimes nearly 
an inch in diameter, but of an austere, disagreeable taste. 
There are many other varieties. From the seeds of grapes 
of this kind have been produced the Isabella, the Catawba, 
Bland’s Grape, the Schuylkill, the Elsinburgh, and others. It 
promises much from the effects of cultivation. 
