298 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. . PART IIL. 
rarely lateral; those bearing male flowers are usually many-flowered; but 
those bearing female flowers are few-flowered, either free from bracteas, or 
furnished with very small ones. The ‘berries of many of the species of this 
genus are often made into a paste, and used in their native countries to intox- 
icate fish and birds, &c., in order to take them; and it is said that brewers 
use them to give their ale and porter an intoxicating quality. (Don’s Mill, i. 
p: 104.) The species are chiefly tropical, and only one that is hardy has yet 
been introduced into the British gardens. 
% 1, Co’ccutus caroui'Nnus Dec. The Carolina Cocculus. 
Identification. Dec. Prod., 1. p. 98. ; Don’s Mill, 1. p. 107. 
Synonymes. Menispérmum carolinum Lin. ; Wendlandia populifdlia Willd., Pursh, and Dill. ; 
Andréphilax scandens Wendl. ; Baumgartia scandens Moench. ; Ménisperme de la Caroline, Fr. ; 
Carolinischer Mondsaame, Ger. 
Engravings. Dill. Elth., 223. t. 178. f. 219.; Wendl Obs., 3. t. 16. ; and our fig. 45. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves cordate or ovate, 
entire, obtuse, and somewhat 3-lobed ; 
under surface velvety pubescent. Male 
racemes floriferous from the base, fe- 
male ones 3-flowered. (Don’s Mill., i. 
p. 107.) A twining shrub, a native of 
Carclina, Georgia, and Florida, in 
woods and hedges, as the black bryony 
is in England. The flowers are dic- 
cious, but, according to Wendland, 
often hermaphrodite. Though ligneous 
in its native country, in cold countries 
it is often herbaceous or subherbaceous. 
The flowers, which appear in June and 
July, are greenish; and the berries, (\\ 
when ripe, are of ared colour. It was \W 
introduced into England in 1759, and 
is not uncommon in botanic gardens and” 
the principal nurseries. Price, in Lon- 
don, 1s. 6d.a plant; at Bollwyller,?; in 
New York, 1 dollar. 
App. i. Anticipated Menispermacee. 
In p. 175. are enumerated some genera and species belonging to this order 
which are natives of the Himalaya; and in p. 176. some that are natives of 
“pe and Japan, which, it is considered, would be found half-hardy in our 
gardens, 
CHAP. VIII. 
OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER 
BERBERA CER. 
Tuts crder is distinguished from other thalamiflorous ones by the fol- 
lowing traits. Sepals usually 6, in two whorls, deciduous, and furnished 
with petal-like scales on the outside. The petals are equal in number 
with the sepals; and the stamens equal in number with the petals, and 
opposite to them. The anthers “ open by reflexed valves; that is to say, 
the face of each cell of the anther peels off except at the point, where it 
adheres as if it were hinged there;” a structure so remarkable, Dr. Lind- 
ley observes, as to be “found in no European plants except Berberdcee 
