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IritiilnA&y 1 Much shorter than in the variety Winchell, but some¬ 
what- longer than in Rotundifolia. 
Leaf buds: Small, conical in shape, similar in this respect to those 
of Winchell, but in size like Rotundifolia, dark brown in color. Young 
leaf buds often greatly resemble true Rotundifolia buds. Basal leaf 
buds on new canes usually unfold the same season much like Winchell 
or V. vinifera. 
Shoots : Very much like those of Winchell, leaves unfolding rapidly. 
The growing tips are not naked as in Rotundifolia. 
Color of foliage: Leaves, tendrils and young stems are usually light 
green in color. Sometimes a faint tinge of brown appears on the 
tendrils and on the nodes. Young unfolding leaves are pale yellowish- 
green in color, due mainly to the pubescence which envelops the growing 
tips. 
Leaves: A trifle larger than V. rotundifolia with the shape of 
Winchell; teeth not as prominent as in Rotundifolia but more so than 
Fig. 7. Types of flower-clusters represented by Winchell (perfect her¬ 
maphroditic but used as the female parent) on the left; hybrid (imperfect 
hermaphroditic) second; Scuppernong (imperfect hermaphroditic) third; and 
staminate Rotundifolia (male parent) on the right. The sizes of the flower- 
clusters in our native species of Yitis are sex-limited; the cluster of this 
hybrid vine which is an imperfect hermaphrodite, therefore, is smaller than 
that of either of its parents, it takes after the size of the flower-cluster that 
is associated with the imperfect hermaphroditic Rotundifolia vine and, 
therefore,, is determined by the Rotundifolia species. Reduced. 
