Scuppernong Scuppernong River in North Carolina mainly along the coastal plain. It was first mentioned as a "white grape" in a written logbook by the Florentine explorer Giovanni de Verrazzano while exploring the Cape Fear River Valley in 1524. He wrote "...Many vines growing naturally there...". Sir Walter Raleigh's explorers, the captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, wrote in 1584 that North Carolina's coast was "...so full of grapes as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them...in all the world, the like abundance is not to be found." He may have been referring to Sargasso seaweed from coral
Scorza variety Scorza variety In mathematics, a "k"-Scorza variety is a smooth projective variety, of maximal dimension among those whose "k"–1 secant varieties are not the whole of projective space. Scorza varieties were introduced and classified by , who named them after Gaetano Scorza. The special case of 2-Scorza varieties are sometimes called Severi varieties, after Francesco Severi. Zak showed that "k"-Scorza varieties are the projective varieties of the rank 1 matrices of rank "k" simple Jordan algebras. The Severi varieties are the non-singular varieties of dimension "n" (even) in P that can be isomorphically projected to a hyperplane and satisfy "N"=3"n"/2+2.