538 MENISPERMACEAE 
3. MENISPERMUM. [Tourn.] L. "Vines, with rather large entire or 
shallow-lobed leaf-blades. Sepals 4-8. Petals 4-8, with involute sides. Fila- 
ments clavate. Gynoecium stipitate. Stigmas flabellate. Seed COCHE eee Den 
species, the following and one Asiatic. 
. M. canadense L. Stems finely pubes- 
e leaf-blades 5-20 em. wide, peltate 
ar the base: flowers greenish-white: sep- 
ve zo or oval, 1.5-2 mm. long: petals 
with what flabellate paar drupes 
bluish black abou diameter.— 
AC aaa ee D.)—Wo Ed thickets and fence- 
rows, various provinces, Ga. to Okla., Man., 
and Que.—Sum.—tThe ae po stems 
and branches of this vine sprawl over rock or 
climb over shrubs. The clusters of dark-blue 
or blue-black fruits often resemble bunches of 
rapes. 
4. CISSAMPELOS L. Vines with broad entire leaf-blades which are 
etimes notched at the apex. Sepals 4 in the staminate flowers, one in the 
pistillate flowers. Petals 4 and united into 
a cup in the staminate flowers, one in the | 
pistillate flowers. Stamens 2 or 4, the an-! 
thers sessile on a central peltate column 
yle a 
Drupe subglobose.—Several dozen species, 
widely distributed, especially in ie tropics. 
1. C. Pareira L. High-climbing vine: leaf- 
blades sed a suborbicular varying to 
j T orbicular-reni 
ovate-orbicular or lar-reniform, 4—10 
; ad, entire, truncate or cordate and 
more or less peltate at the base, long-peti- 
B. E inate flowers in mue h-br pi. 
calyx un 2 mm. wide; sepal 
UE Nes ate piis in Du. elusters along a long rachis, the 
T and petals cuneate or obovate: drupe subglobose, 7-10 mm. in diameter 
W. I., Mex , C. A. 
red, pubescent.—Hammocks, ‘Everglade Keys, pen. Fla. 
S. V 
Faminy 6. CABOMBACEAE — WATER-SHIELD FAMILY 
Aquatie o plants, n coated with transparent jelly. Leaves 
d or opposite: blades the submerged ones palmately ce 
those of the item leaves Mere and peltate. Flowers perfect. Calyx 
former. Andro of 3-18 stamens.—T wo HERO and about 5 species, 
widely distributed i in neci lakes and stream 
Leaf-blades dissected ee the inconspicuous floating ones: petals 
auricled: car 1. CABOMBA. 
Leaf-blades all deerit Aetas entire: carpels 4-18. 2. BRASENIA. 
