_ Vitis champini (cont.) 
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Berrges; Medium, round, black with thin or no prunose bloom when ripe; 
persistent; skin rather thin, tough, possessed of abundance of coloring matter, 
little pungency; pulp generally juicy, melting, of rich agreeable flavor, but 
lacking in sugar. 
Seeds: 1 to 3, 1/6" to +" long by 1/7" to 1/6" broad, obovoid when but 
one in the berry; beak short, small or blunt; raphe extends from beak as a very 
Slender imbedded thread or hair in the e€evation between two rather deep, nearly 
parallel ventral depressions which lie close along it,becoming invisible as it 
passes in the slight groove over the top of the seed and passing gradually into 
the narrow, elongated, sunken or slightly elevated, chalaza, located in the 
center of the back of seed, or a little above, thence a slight groove extends to 
the beak. 
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Plantlet: Seed-leaves, petiole 1/6" to 4"; blade medium, broadly elliptical, © 
acute summit, green, plumule and caulicle crimson; rather vigorous, declining 
or partly upright first year; l@aves always entire on young vines. 
This species occurs naturally in Johnson, Llano, Lampasas, Bell, “i tie; and 
other counties of Texas. 
-—— Foundations of American Grape Culture, by T. V. Munson, 1909. 
