Vine vigorous, healthy, usually hardy, moderately productive. Leaves intermediate in size; lower surface heavily tinged with bronze. Flowers occasionally on plan of six, fertile, open in mid-season or earlier; stamens upright. Fruit ripens about with Concord or Delaware, appears to keep well. Clusters large to medium, broadly and irregularly tapering, sometimes blunt at ends, usually not shouldered or shoulder when present small and short, compact to medium. Berries large to above medium, slightly oblate, attractive green changing to a yellow tinge, covered with a more or less gray bloom, drop from clusters easily. Flesh rather transparent and tender, mild, sweetish from skin to center, pleasant-flavored but somewhat variable in flavor and quality, ranking from medium to very good. Seeds separate readily from the pulp, quite large; raphe often shows as a partly submerged cord. AMERICA. (Lincecumii, Rupestris.) =1.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =11=:614. 1892. =2.= _An. Hort._, =1892=:176. =3.= Husmann, =1895=:116, 125. =4.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =14=:276. 1895. =5.= _Ib._, =17=:526, 548, 553, 1898. =6.= _Tex. Sta. Bul._, =48=:1149, 1152. 1898. _fig._ =7.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._, =1899=:29. =8.= _Mo. Sta. Bul._, =46=:43, 45, 46, 47. 1899. =9.= _Ga. Sta. An. Rpt._, =13=:320. 1900. =10.= _Tex. Sta. Bul._, =56=:263, 274. 1900. _fig._ =11.= _Rural N. Y._, =60=:614. 1901. =12.= _Mo. Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =1904=:305. America is illustrated and described in _The Grapes of New York_ chiefly because of its possible value in breeding work. It may also be worth growing in a limited way in this State for wine-making as it is reputed by all who have tried it to be one of the best native grapes for a dark red wine and to make a very good port. The notable qualities of the variety as it grows at Geneva are: Vigor of growth, health of foliage, persistence of berries, high sugar content and the peculiar flavor of the fruit, liked by some and not by others. At least it can be said that the taste of America is new to northern grape-growers; and, since it wholly lacks the foxy taste and aroma of Labrusca, it offers possibilities for breeding varieties lacking the distinguishing flavor of Concord and Niagara. This variety would probably be somewhat objectionable in northern markets as a table fruit because of the highly colored juice, which stains the hands and the lips. The flavor is decidedly that of _Vitis rupestris_.