. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. 138 POPULAR FLORA. 1. EunoPEAx Grape. Flowers all perfect; lesires deeply and sharply lobed. Cult, in several varie- ties, viz. Sweetwater Grape, Black Hamburg, &c. V. vinifera. 2. NoKTiiEKN Fox-GEArE. Leaves very woolly when young, remaining rusty-AvoolIy beneath; ber- ries large, purple or amber-colored. — Improved varieties of this, without the foxy taste and the tough pulp,

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. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. 138 POPULAR FLORA. 1. EunoPEAx Grape. Flowers all perfect; lesires deeply and sharply lobed. Cult, in several varie- ties, viz. Sweetwater Grape, Black Hamburg, &c. V. vinifera. 2. NoKTiiEKN Fox-GEArE. Leaves very woolly when young, remaining rusty-AvoolIy beneath; ber- ries large, purple or amber-colored. — Improved varieties of this, without the foxy taste and the tough pulp, are the Isabella and the Catawba Grapes. F. Labrusca, 3. Summer Grape. Leaves with loose cobwebby down underneath, smoothish when old ; panicles of fertile flowers very long and slender; berries small, ripe with first frost. V. cestivalis. 4. Frost Grape. Leaves thin, heart-shaped, never woolly, not shining, sharply and coarsely toothed, little or not at all lobed ; panicles loose ; berries blue or black with a bloom, sour, ripening late. Common along river-banks, Szc. V. core/ifuUa. 5. Muscadine or Southern Fox-Grape. Bark of the stem close, not thrown off in loose strips, as in the others; leaves round-heart-shaped, shining, not down}-, very coarsely toothed; panicles small, with crowded flowers; berry large, musky, with a very thick and tough skin. A variety is the Scuppernong Grape. Common S. Virgi nia-Cree per. A mjje lopsis. Petals 5, thick, opening befoi'e they fall. Leaves palmate with 5 leaflets (Fig. 74). Berries small, blackish. A very common tall- climbing vine, wild and culti- vated. A. quinquefblia. V. vulpina.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co