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Rh are chiefly composed of this grape; the bunch is only of a middling size, and the grapes not large nor close on the bunch; the bark is reddish, the leaf lightly divided into five lobes, and very regularly indented round the edges; it does not announce much vigour of vegetation.

The white morillon has a longer branch than the preceding; the berries are almost round, and compose a bunch of little clusters; the leaf, without being entire, is not lobed, but is very distinctly indented round the edge; its upper surface is green, and its under whitish; it is supported by a large and red petiole.

The franc pineau, the morillon par excellence. The bunch is short and rather conic; the berry oblong, and close to the bunch—of a carnation red at the orifice; the wool is slender, long, and inclined to red; the knots distant from each other, and when the wood is cut transversely, a reddish colour is observeable in it; the petiole of the leaf is long, the leaf short, red, and semilobed on two sides—delicately indented round the edge; its colour is rather a deep green on the upper, and pale on the under surface, and both surfaces covered with down; it produces little, but the taste of its fruit is excellent, and the most delicate wines of Burgundy are made from it.

The black Burgundy, (Borguignon noir). This