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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Leaves simple, alternate, peltate or cordate, entire, smooth. Peduncles 

 axillary, or supra-axillary. Male and female peduncles rather dissimilar. 

 Flowers small, greenish white. The species are all of the easiest culture in 

 common soil, and are propagated by dividing the root, or by cuttings. 



.J 1. M. CANADE'NSE. The Canadian Moonseed. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 102. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 112. ; Tor. and Gray, 1. p. 48. 

 Synonymes. M. canadt?nse var. a. Lamarck ; M. angulatum Moench ; Menisperme du Canada, Bon. 



Jard. ; Canadischer Mondsaame, Ger. 

 Engravings. Schkuhr. H., 3. t. 337. ; Lam. Diet., t. 824. ; and our Jig. 48. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves peltate, smoothish, somewhat cordate, roundish- 

 angular ; angles bluntish, terminal one abruptly awned, mucronate. Ra- 

 cemes solitary, compound. Petals 8. (Don's Mill.) A 

 deciduous, suffruticose, long, slender twiner. Canada to 

 Carolina. Height 8ft. to 12ft. Introduced in 1713. 

 Flowers small, greenish yellow ; June and July. Berry 

 black ; ripe in September. Decaying leaves greenish 

 brown. 



Varieties. 



-i M. c. 2 lobalum Dec. M. 

 virginicum L. (Dill. 

 Elfh.,t. 178.fig. 219.) 

 This variety is dis- 

 tinguished by the angles of the leaves being 

 acutish, and the flowers of a greenish white, 

 -i M. c. 3 smildcinum. M. smilacimim Dec. 

 (Jac. Icon., t. 269.; and our Jig. 49 ) 

 Leaves smoother, and racemes more simple 

 than in the species. 



Roots thick and woody, with numerous very slender shoots, which, though 

 somewhat ligneous, never attain any considerable diameter, and are not of 

 many years' duration. The stem twines in a direction contrary to the sun's 

 apparent motion, and is smooth and even, 

 having more the appearance of a herbaceous 

 plant, than of a shrub. 



-$ 2. MEMSPE'RMUM DAU V RICUM Dec. 

 The Dalirian Moonseed. 



Identification. 



4*. MenispAr. canad^nse. 



Dec. Prod., 1 . p. 102.; Don's Mill., 1 . 

 Synonymes. Trilophus Ampelisagria Fi. 



p.112. 



M. canadthise 

 "var."5 Lam. 

 Engravings. Deless. Icon., 1. 1. 100. ; and our fig. 50. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves peltate, smooth, cor- 

 date, angular ; angles acute, terminal one 

 acuminated hardly mucrjnate. Racemes in 

 pairs, capitulate. (Don's Mill.) A twining, 

 deciduous, suffruticose shrub. Dauria, on 

 rocky hills, near the river Chilca. Height 

 5ft. to 10 ft. Introduced in 1858. Flowers 

 yellowish ? June and July. Berries black ; 

 ripe in September. s- Menis P mum <?auricur 



Resembles the preceding species, and probably only a variety of it 

 GENUS II. 



.1 CO'CCULUS Bauh. Tan COCCULUS. Lin. Syst. Dice v cia Hexandria. 



Identification. Bauh. Pin., Ml. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 96. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 104. 



