SS ee —— ee Sav.) 6h hl ee: 
Vitis blancoii (cont.) 
Seeds: 1 to 3, very small, as broad or broader than long, 1/8" long, 
globular when one in a berry, hemispherical when two; pale to dark chocolate 
colored; beak very short and broad, of darker color than body of seed; raphe 
very slender and obscure from beak to top of seed, where it becomes distinct in 
the notch in top, and rapidly expands into the nearly circular prominent chalaza 
in a very small shallow basin, a little above the center of the back of the seed, 
from chalaza a shallow groove extends down back of seed to the beak, the ventral 
depressions diverge widely from raphe, are short end distinct, of a lighter shade 
of color than body of seed. 
Plantlet: Very similar to V. cinerea, in having small pale green cordate 
seed leaves, with acute tips, but with shorter petioles. 
This species was first brought to my notice in 1887 by Senor Luciana Blanco, 
of Guadalajara, Mexico, who collected it for me repeated] along streams in the 
Sierra Madra Mountains in the State of Jalisco, near the ¢ity of Guadalajara. 
In 1895 Mr. C. M. Stuart sent me specimens of it from near Montemorlos, State of 
Nuevo Leon, Mexico. 
--- Foundations of American Grape Culture, by T. V. Munson, 1909. 
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