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Moon seed. M. canadense is a tall and fast-growing, 

 North American, hardy, twining, deciduous shrub of the 

 easiest cultivation. It has large, heart-shaped leaves and 

 long, feathery panicles of small, yellowish flowers, produced 

 in summer, and succeeded by clusters of black berries. 

 The only other cultivated species, M. dauricum, a native 

 of Eastern Asia, is inferior. Propagated by root divisions 

 or by cuttings in spring. 



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This genus of Convolvulaceae is now included in 

 Ipomcea. M. lobata (Ipomcea versicolor) from Mexico is 

 frequently cultivated. It is a tall, very slender, branching, 

 leafy climber, with twining stem and branches. The long- 

 stalked three to five-lobed leaves are bright green above, 

 pale beneath. The flowers, bright rosy-crimson at first, 

 changing as they expand, first to orange, and then to pale 

 yellow, are about i inch long, and borne in racemes. It 

 may be grown in warm places as a half-hardy annual, and 

 merits cultivation as a summer-flowering occupant of the 

 greenhouse. 



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Evergreen tropical Aroids. M. deliciosa (Tornelia fra- 

 grans) has stout, fleshy, scandent stems, and large, leathery, 

 heart-shaped leaves, with numerous slit-like perforations ; is 

 sometimes used for grouping with other plants in the out- 

 door sub-tropical garden. See Chapter XIII (Aroids), p. 67. 



