Vitis champini (cont.) | 
Berrges; Medium, round, black with thin or no prmose bloom when ripe; 
persistent; skin rather thin, tough, possessed of abundance of coloring matter, 
little pungencys pulp generally juicy, melting, of rich agreeable flavor, bat 
lacking in sugar. 
Seeds: 1 to 3, 1/6" to #® long by 1/7" to 1/6" broad, obovwid when but 
one in the berry; beak short, small or blant3 raphe extends from beak as a very 
slender imbedded thread or hair in the or ony Spa between two rather deep, nearly 
perallel ventral depressions which lie close along it, becoming invisible as 1% passe 
passes in the slight groove over the top of the seed and pessing gradually into 
the narrow, elongated, sunken or slightly elevated, chalaza, located in the 
eenter of the back of seed, or a little above, thence « slight groove extends to 
the beak. 
Plantlet: Seed-loaves, petiole 1/6" to }*; blade medium, broedly ellipticel, 
acute summit, green, plumule and caulicle crimson; rather vigorous, declining 
or partly upright first years lgaves always entire on young vines. 

This especies oceurs naturelly in Johnson, Llano, Lampases, Bell, 11s, and 
other counties of Texas. 
—-- Foundations of American Grape Culture, by T. V. Munson, 1909. 
