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and often crisped leaflets; small perfect polypetalous yellowish 
racemed flowers; and blue glaucous small one-seeded berries.— 
Often placed in Berberis. 
1. Leaves distinctly stalked: leaflets about five. 2. 
Leaves nearly sessile: leaflets about nine. 6. 
2. Rather tall. 3. 
Dwarf and spreading. M. repens. 
3. Leaves glossy bright green. M. Aquifolium. 
Leaves becoming yellow. M. Aquifolium lutescens. 
Leaves mottled with red. M. Aquifolium amabilis. 
Leaves spotted. 4. 
4. Variegation white. M. Aquifolium albo-variegata. 
Variegation yellow, 5. ; 
5. Spots large and scattered. M. Aquifolium aureo-variegata. © 
Spots small and numerous. M. Aquifolium aucubifolia. 
6. Leaflets gray-green. M. pinnata. 
Leaflets bright green. M. pinnata Wagneri. 
Family MENISPERMACEAE. Maoudeed Family. 
A small family of climbing plants, of little general use. 
CALYCOCARPUM. Cupseed. 
Half woody twining plants with slender rather fluted green 
stems; rounded homogeneous pith; alternate somewhat raised 
small crescent-shaped leaf-scars with 1 bundle-trace; small often 
superposed buds; no _ stipule-scars; rather large long-stalked 
palmately lobed leaves with rounded sinuses; small imperfect 
rolyretalous flowers in stalked axillary clusters; and berry-like 
drupe with a large cup-like stone. 
Lobes acuminate, sinuses part-elliptical. Ce Lyon: 
CoccuLtus. Carolina Moonseeu. 
Half-woody twining plants with somewhat fluted stems; 
rovnded homogeneous pith; alternate slightly raised small round- 
ish leaf-scars with 3 bundle-traces; no stipule-scars; small hairy 
sometimes superposed buds; rather large long-stalked palmately 
nerved ovate or sometimes elongated often cordate or hastate 
leaves, small imperfect polypetalous flowers in axillary racemes 
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