CHAP. VII. MENISPERMA CE. CO’CCULUS. 297. 
Variety. 
£ M. c. 2 lobatum Dec. The lobed-leaved Canadian Moonseed. M. 
virginicum L.— This variety is distinguished by the angles of the 
leaves being acutish, and the flowers of a greenish white. Figured 
in Dill. Elth., t. 178. fig. 219. 
Geography, History, §c. Found in North America, among bushes, on the 
banks of rivers, and on fertile declivities, from Canada to Carolina; and also 
indigenous in Siberia. It was cultivated, in 1713, by Bishop Compton ; and is 
not unfrequent in British botanic gardens, and in our principal nurseries. It 
will grow in any free, deep, and rather moist soil ; and, as it sends up nume- 
rous shoots from its thick woody roots, it is easily propagated by dividing them, 
or by layers made in autumn, which will root in one year. Both the male and 
female plants are in Lee’s Nursery ; and the male of the variety M. c. lobatum 
is in the garden of the London Horticultural 
Society. Price, of plants in the London nur- 
series, ls. 6d. each ; at Bollwyller, 90 cents ; 
in New York, 25 cents. 
£2. MENISPE’RMUM DAU‘RICUM Dec. 
The Daiirian Moonseed. 
Identification. Dec. Prod., 1. p. 102.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 112. 
Synonyme. Trilophus Ampelisdgria Fisch. ; M. canadénse 
var. 8 Lam. 
Engravings. YDeless, Icon., 1. t. 100. and our fig. 43, 
Spec. Char. Leaves amin smooth, cordate, angular ; 
angles acute, terminal one acuminated hardly mucronate. 
Racemes in pairs, capitulate. (Don’s Mill.,i. p.112.) A 
twining shrub, resembling M. canadénse, but smaller in 
all its parts, and, probably, only a variety of that species, 
Flowers yellowish. June and July. 1818. Found in 
Daiiria, on rocky hills near the river Chilca, and said to 
be eeperiuced into England in 1818; but we have never 
seen it, 
& 3. M. smita’cinum Dec. The Smilax-like Moonseed. 
Identification. Dee. Syst., 1. p. 541. ; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 112. 
Synonyme. Cissampelos smilacina Lin. 
Engravings. Jacq. Icon., t. 629. ; Catesb. Carol., 1, t. 51. ; and our fig. 44. 
44, Spec. Char. Leaves.peltate, smoothish, cordate-roundish, bluntly 
angular, under surface glaucous. Racemes simple. Petals 4. 
(Don's Mill., i. p.112.) A climbing shrub, with slender stalks, 
and leaves resembling those of the common ivy. The flowers, 
which appear in July and August, are white, and the berries 
are red, about the size of small peas, and grow in clusters. 
Found in Carolina by Catesby, and first described by him. It 
was introduced into Britain in 1776, by Dr. Hope, then professor 
of botany at Edinburgh. The plant is rather scarce in British 
gardens; and, when it is met with, it is generally in a green- 
pene? though there can be little doubt of its being half- 
ardy, 
Genus II. 
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4 CO’CCULUS Bauh. Tue Coccutus. Lin. Syst. Dicecia Hexandria, 
Identification. Bauh. Pin., 511. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 96.; Don's Mill, 1. p. 104. 
ymes. Menispérmum L.; Wendlandia Willd.; Andréphilax Wendi. _ : 
erivation. From coccus, the systematic name of cochineal, which is applied to this genus on 
account of the greater number of the species bearing scarlet berries. 
Gen. Char. Sepals and petals Gupored in a ternary order, in 2, very rarely in 
3 series. Male flowers with 6 free stamens opposite the petals ; female ones 
with 3 or 6 carpels. Drupes baccate, 1 to 6, usually obliquely reniform, 
somewhat flattened, l-seeded. Cofyledons distant. (Don’s Mill. i. p. 104.) 
Description. This is a genus of climbing or twining shrubs, with peltate, 
cordate, ovate or oblong, entire, rarely lobed, leaves. Peduncles axillary, 
