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 The maurillon hatif; or forward maurillon. It is the earliest variety of the climate; its berries take a black colour long before their maturity; they are small, round, and not close; their skin is hard and thick, the pulp dry and fibrous; its juice is almost insipid; the bunches and leaves small; the leaves of a bright green on both surfaces, and terminated by a large and broad indentation. Excepting in Provence, it is not cultivated, having no other merit than precocity.

The meunier, or, miller, called also mealy manrillon; its leaves are covered with a white cottony matter, whence the name; it seems an improved variety of the preceding; its berries are black, large, and rather close in the bunch, which is short and thick; its leaves are three lobed, having, besides, two divisions which, if a little deeper, would form two semilobes.

The white savaguien, only differs from the preceding in the colour of the fruit, and the greater size of the bunch; the grapes are also larger, and more oblong; the two lower lobes of the leaf, have also a more decided character.

The maurillon, or pineau of Burgundy. It is more than probable that it takes it name from its black colour, or colour of the moor; because many black grapes, of a different kind, are also called maurillon; the best vineyards of Burgundy