circumstance has probably been the cause of the great con- 
fusion that occurs in the synonymy of the three supposed 
species, canadense, virginianum, and carolinianum, 
Mr. Pursu makes the second only a variety of the first, 
excluding the synonym of Ditientws, which he refers to the 
last, the WenpLanpiA populifolia of Wittpenow ; Micnavux 
likewise omits virginianum altogether. If Ditienius had 
not described the berries as black, which in carolinianum 
are agreed to be red, there appears to us to be no objection 
to this, Ditrentus’s description of the female flower agreeing 
exactly with WenpLanp’s figure. But then Pursu has also 
referred CissampEtos smilacina of Jacquin to the same, 
which we cannot hesitate in pronouncing to be a good repre- 
sentation of our plant, and totally different from the figures 
of Ditienius, Wenpianp, and Caressy. Upon the whole, 
we are inclined to believe that there are only two species, 
and that probably CissampEtos smilacina should be expunged 
altogether, and more certainly from the Hortus Kewensis, 
The Canadian Moon-seed has been long cultivated in our 
gardens, but we have never seen any but male plants; 
Jacquin’s plant was also male; but the one examined by 
Menicus at Lautern, was a female, and the male was un- 
known to him. 
These plants grow naturally in North-America, on the 
banks of rivers and on the sides of fertile hills, climbing 
among other shrubs. Propagated by layers. Communicated 
by Joun Wanker, Esq. in July 1815, ea 
