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Index of Botanical Specimens

Classification	Vitis: Vitaceae
Complex Object	This is a complex collection object (2 items with 1 preparation)
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)	00872386
Other Barcodes on Sheet	;
Collector	H. D. Thoreau
Country	United States of America
State	New Jersey
Geography	North America: North America (CA, US, MX) (Region): United States of America: New Jersey: Middlesex County
Locality	Perth Amboy
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/f95170cd-858e-4eee-9601-142df00fe672
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode	00872386
Herbarium	GH
Family	Vitaceae
Determination	InQuestion Vitis aestivalis Michaux
Determination Remarks	[label name] [current name]
Subcollection	Thoreau Herbarium
Phenology	Sterile
Preparation Type	Sheet
Preparation Method	Pressed
Description	[#155]

Remarks

[#155] ["About the 10th of November, I first noticed long branches of very small dark-purple or black grapes fallen on the dry leaves in the ravine east of Spring's house. Quite a large mass of clusters remained hanging on the leafless vine, thirty feet overhead there, till I left, on the 24th November. These grapes were much shrivelled, but they had a very agreeable spicey acid taste, evidently not aquired till after the frosts. I thought them quite a discovery and ate many from day to day, swallowing the skings and stones, and recommended them to Spring. He said that they were very much like a certain French grape, which he had eaten in France. It is a true frost grape, but apparently answers to Vitis aestivalis (?). Vide fruit and leaves. One I opened has only two seeds, while one of the early ones at Brattleboro has four, but one of the late ones at Brattleboro has only two, which also I have called V. aestivalis." Journal 9: 137-138. 1856]