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Vitis rotundifolia, Michx. (V. muscadina, V. angulata, V. verrucosa, V. peltata, Muscadinia rotundifolia, Small). Muscadine. Southern Fox Grape. Bullace, Bullit, or Bull Grape. Fig. 1708, Vol. III. Vine with hard warty wood, running even 60-100 ft. over bushes and trees, in the shade often sending down dichotomous aerial roots: lvs. rather small to medium (2-6 in. long), dense in texture and glabrous both sides (sometimes pubescent along the veins beneath), cordate-ovate and not lobed, mostly with a prominent and sometimes an acuminate point (but somewhat contracted above the termination of the 2 main side veins), the under surface finely reticulated between the veins, the teeth and the apex angular, coarse and acute, the basal sinus shallow, broad and edentate; petiole slender and (like the young growth) fine-scurfy, about the length of the lf .-blade: tendrils (or fl.-clusters) discontinuous, every third node being bare: fr.-bearing clusters smaller than the sterile ones, and ripening from 3-20 grapes in a nearly globular bunch: berries falling from the clusters when ripe, spherical or nearly so and large (1/2 – 1 in. diam.), with very thick and tough skin and a tough musky flesh, dull purple in color without bloom (in the Scuppernong variety silvery amber-green), ripe in summer and early autumn; seeds 1/4 – 3/8 in. long, shaped something like a coffee berry. River banks, swamps, and rich woodlands and thickets, S. Del. to N. Fla. and west to Mo., Kans., Texas, and Mex. For a recent pomological account of the Muscadine grapes, see Husmann, Farmers' Bull. No. 709, U. S. Dept. Agric. (1916); for a treatise on Muscadine grape-sirup, consult Dearing, Farmers' Bull. No. 758 (1916).
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