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A flower cluster on a perfect hermaphrodite vine, like one on a 
staminate vine, normally consists of a great many flowers crowded 
together on a more or less lengthened racliis (see Figs. 7, 8, 11, and 12). 
The largest number of buds that were ever counted in a single flower 
cluster on a staminate vine was 384 and on a perfect hermaphrodite 
vine (Hope) 299. This staminate vine, however, is one of the best ever 
observed by the writer among wild vines, while Hope is the first of its 
kind that was ever recorded among rotundifolia grape vines. 
Fig. 12.—Variations in size of the flower clusters from hermaphrodite vines that bear the 
upright type of stamen. Natural size. 
