ANONACEiE. (CUSTARD-APPLE FAMILY.) 
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1. ASIMIHfA, Adans. North American Papaw. 
Sepals 3. Petals 6, in two sets, their margins in each set slight¬ 
ly overlapping in the bud ; the outer set larger. Stamens numer¬ 
ous in a globular mass. Pistils few, forming large and oblong 
pulpy several-seeded fruits. — Shrubs or small trees, with un¬ 
pleasant odor when bruised ; the dull-colored flowers axillary and 
solitary. (Name from Asiminier, of the French colonists.) 
1. A. trllolm, Dunal. (Common Papaw.) Leaves thin, obo- 
vate-lanceolate, pointed; petals dull-purple, veiny, round-ovate, the 
outer ones 3-4 times as long as the.calyx. (Uvaria, Alph. DC ., Torr. 
Gray,)— Banks of streams in rich soil, W. New York and Penn, 
to Ohio and southward. April, May. —Tree KP- 20 ° high; the 
young shoots and expanding leaves clothed with a rusty down,'soon 
glabrous. Flowers appearing with the leaves, 1 wide, each ripening 
1-3 pulpy pods which are 2'-3' long, yellowish, sweet and edible in 
autumn 
Order 4. MEXISPERMACEiE. (Moonseed Family.) 
Woody climbers, with palmate or peltate alternate leaves, 
without stipules ; the sepals and petals similar in 3 or more 
rows, imbricated in the bud; hypogynous, polygamo-di *- 
cious 3-6-gynous: fruit a 1 -seeded drupe, with a large 
curved embryo. — Stamens several. Ovaries nearly straight 
T* , S .“ g i ma at ,he a P ex > but incurved in fruiting, so Thai 
e seed is bent into a crescent, or ring. Embryo curved 
ike the seed. Albumen sparing. 
1. MEJHSriE MrM) L. Moonseed. 
raised on a short stalk nnp • ln fertlle flowers, 
stone coiled into a ring’ (NamJ^ ^ the 
1 n , ° m m00n ’ and owippa, seed.) 
tate ££“^e d 3 n r C aWtd T ^ P* 
ofstreams. May.-Flowers„”nUh I ? 3 Bank, 
“pals : imperfect stamens sometimes in the fertT' 15 fl Sh ° rter than the 
Wack with a bloom, looking like fi- . h & ® flovvere - Drupes 
"" kw .i,; ES. £ 
