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hybrids are no larger than on many of our seedling vines of Scupper- 
nong X Dark Male Vine No. 1 origin, while the fruit-cluster together 
with the size of the individual berries on his Sanmonta vine are only 
typical of those of Vitis munsoniana which species Dr. Munson had 
growing on his estate at that time. (See Eigs. 32 and 33.) The thin 
skin, the character of the pulp, the seeds, the general quality of the 
fruit, the bark and other characters of Munson’s vines are all to be 
found now and then in the Muscadine group. The sugar content of 
Sanalba has been far exceeded in our own Rotundifolia seedlings and 
the pink color of San Rubra has often appeared even more intense than 
this on light-colored seedling vines in our Muscadine nursery. Again 
Munson’s vines are normally fruitful while from our work we learn 
that the Fi hybrids between V. rotundifolia and Euvitis are sterile to a 
marked degree, fruit on hybrid vines being the exception. 
After a complete survey of the characters that are found in Munson’s 
vines and a very careful comparison of these with similar characters 
found associated with our hybrid vines, we come to the conclusion that 
Munson’s vines are neither “false hybrids,” nor true hybrids; that they 
are nothing but pure Muscadine vines. 
The Viticultural Division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in 
1917 reports the production of a “supposed hybrid” vine in 1912 which 
vine undoubtedly should be classed with this group of so-called “false 
hybrids.” This conclusion has been reached after a careful study of 
the description of this vine as given by Dearing (3) and a comparison 
of this with the hybrid vines that were produced at this station. The 
description reads as follows: “The next year (1912) one supposed 
hybrid was secured, a cross of Eden (female) and Elame Tokay (male) 
which has now fruited two years. While it is distinct from other Mus¬ 
cadine seedlings of Eden parentage, it is predominantly Muscadine in 
character and shows no resemblance to Elame Tokay except in the 
leaves.” 
We note from this description that this “supposed hybrid” differs 
from true hybrids in three prominent points, namely: (1) It shows 
no resemblance to the Vinifera parent except in the leaf, and just what 
this resemblance might be is not made clear. (2) The vine is pre¬ 
dominantly Muscadine in character. (3) The vine has fruited for two 
years and no difference in its fruiting habit has been noticed from that 
of true Muscadine vines; in other words, this vine is normally fruitful 
and not practically sterile as are true hybrids. 
Hybridization of Vitis rotundifolia with species of Euvitis produces 
true hybrids with varying intermediate and dominant characters, and 
not as has generally been supposed, “false hybrids” whose characters 
are chiefly those of Vitis rotundifolia. 
