84 ELEMENTS OF BOTANY. 



C. Carolina (L.) Britt. Carolina Moonseed. Stem twin- 

 ing, slightly pubescent above, 10-15 ft. long; leaves 3-lobed, acute, 

 rigid ; pistillate flowers in simple, and the staminate in compound 

 racemes, greenish-white, small ; stamens 6 ; pistils 3-6 ; drupe bright 

 red, globular or compressed, as large as a small pea. June- August. 

 Borders of woods and thickets. 



II. MENISPERMUM. 



Vines slender, climbing, much like C eh at ha ; leaves 3-7- 

 angled or lobed ; flowers in axillary panicles, small, white ; 

 sepals and petals 4-8 ; stamens 12-24 ; pistils 2-4, stigmas 

 dilated ; fruit a drupe. 



M. Canadense L. Moonseed. Stem twining, 8-12 ft. high ; 

 leaves 5-7-angled, slightly cordate, peltate near the base ; flowers 

 greenish-white ; pistils in the fertile flowers on a prominent, raised 

 receptacle ; fruit globular, black ; seed crescent-shaped. June-July. 

 River banks ; more common northward. 



III. CALYCOCARPUM. 



Stem twining, pubescent, 20-50 ft. high ; leaves palmately 

 3-5-lobed ; flowers dioecious, in compound racemes ; sepals 6 ; 

 petals none ; stamens 12 ; pistils 3, stigmas radiate, spread- 

 ing; drupe oval, seed shaped like a shallow cup. 



G. Lyoni Nutt. CuPSEED. Stem climbing to the tops of trees ; 

 leaves round-cordate, 6-8 in. wide, lobes acuminate, veins promi- 

 nent ; flowers whitish, in large, axillary clusters ; drupe 1 in. long, 

 greenish. June-July. River banks and moist woods. 



43. CALYCANTHACEiE. STRAWBERRY-SHRUB FAMILY. 



Shrubs ; leaves simple, opposite, entire, exstipulate ; flow- 

 ers perfect, solitary, terminal on lateral branches ; sepals and 

 petals alike, numerous, united below, forming an obconical, 

 fleshy cup ; stamens numerous, short, the inner ones usually 

 sterile; ovaries several, inserted on tlie inner surface of the 

 cup-shaped receptacle, becoming 1-seeded achenia in fruit. 



