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ARBORETUM AND^FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



rarely lateral ; those bearing male flowers are usually niaiiy-flowereil ; but 

 those bearing female flowers are few-flowered, either free from bracteas, or 

 furnished with very small ones. The l)erries of many of the species of this 

 genus are often made into a (taste, 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 1. Co'ccULUS caroli'M'S Dec. The Carolina Cocculus. 



hUntification. Dec. Prod., 1. p. 98. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 107. 



SunonifDics. Mcnispcrmum caroliniim Lin. ; Wcndlandw populif,Mia Jfi/ld., Pursh, nirl Dill. ; 



And'rophilax .'iCLindeiis fVendl. ; Baumgi'irUa sciiiidens Moench. ; Mcnispcrme de la Caroline, Fr. ; 



Carolinischcr Mondsaame, Gcr. 

 i:,ig>airings. Dill. Elth., '223. t. 178. f. 219. ; Wendl. Obs., 3. t. Ifi. ; and our fig. 45. 



Spec. Char., c'J-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 

 Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, in 

 woods and hedges, as the black bryony 

 is in England. The flowers are dioe- 

 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 a red colour. It was 

 introduced into England in 1759, and 

 is not uncommon in botanic gardens and 

 the principal nurseries. Price, in Lon- 

 don, ].y. 6(1. a plant ; at Bollwyller, ?j in 

 New York, 1 dollar. 



App. i. Afitidpafed Mniispcnndcece. 



In p. 175. are enumerated some genera and species belonging to this order 

 which are natives of the Himalaya; and in p. 1 70. some that are natives of 

 China and Japan, which, it is considered, would be found half-hardy in our 

 gardens. 



CHAP. VIII. 



OF THE HAUDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE OHDEIl 

 BEJiBERA\^E/E. 



This crder is distinguished from other thalamiflorous ones by the fol- 

 lowing traits. Sepals usually G, in two whorls, ileciduous, and furnishctl 

 with |)etal-like scales on the outside. The petals are equal in number 

 with the sepals; and the stamens equal in number with the petals, ami 

 o|)posite to them. The anthers " o|)en by rcflexed 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 |)lants except Bcrberaccao 



