410 MENISPERMACEAE (MOONSEEU FAMILY) 



1. C. fl6ridus L. Leaves oval, soft-downy underneath; flowers when crushed 

 yielding somewhat the fragrance of strawberries. (Butneria Britton.) Va. 

 (?) and southw., on hillsides in rich soil ; common in gardens. Apr.-Aug. 



2. C. fSrtilis Walt. Leaves oblong or ovate, thin, either blunt or taper-pointed, 

 bright green and glabrous on both sides, or pale beneath ; flowers inodorous. 

 (C. glaucus and laevigatus Willd. ; Butneria fertilis Britton.) Franklin Co., 

 Pa. (Porter}, and southw. along the Alleghenies. May- Aug. 



ANON ACE AE (CUSTARD APPLE FAMILY) 



Trees or shrubs, with naked buds and no stipules, a calyx of 3 sepalu, am/ 

 corolla of 6 thickish petals in two rows, valvate in the bud, hypogynous, poly- 

 androus. Anthers adnate, extrorse ; filaments very short. Pistils several or 

 many, separate or cohering in a mass, fleshy or pulpy in fruit. Seefls anatropous, 

 large, with a minute embryo at the base of the ruminated albumen. Leaves 

 alternate, entire, feather-veined. Flowers axillary, solitary. Tropical, 

 excepting 



1. ASIMINA Adans. NORTH AMERICAN PAPAW 



Petals 6, increasing after the bud opens ; the outer set larger than the inner. 

 Stamens numerous in a globular mass. Pistils few, ripening 1-4 large thick- 

 cylindric pulpy fruits ; seeds several, horizontal, flat, inclosed in a fleshy aril. 

 Shrubs or small trees with unpleasant odor when bruised ; the lurid flowers soli- 

 tary from the axils of last year's leaves. (Name from Asiminier, of the French 

 colonists, from the Indian name assimin.) 



1. A. triloba Dunal. (COMMON?.) Leaves thin, obovate-lanceolate, pointed ; 

 petals dull purple, veiny, round-ovate, the outer ones 3-4 times as long as the 

 calyx. Banks of streams in rich soil, N. J. to L. Erie, Mich., n. e. la., s. e. 

 Neb., and southw. Apr., May. Tree 3-12 m. high, the young shoots and 

 expanding leaves clothed with a rusty down, soon glabrous. Flowers appearing 

 with the leaves, 3-4 cm. wide. Fruits 7-13 cm. long, green or at length dark 

 brown, the pulp sweet and edible in autumn. 



MENISPERMACEAE (MOONSEED FAMILY) 



Woody climbers, with palmate or peltate alternate leaves, no stipules, tin- 

 sepals and petals similar, in three or more rows, imbricated in the bud; /<///<".'/>/- 

 nous, dioecious, 3-Q-gynous; fruit a l-seeded drupe, with a large or long <-urri 

 embryo in scanty albumen. Flowers small. Stamens several. Ovaries nearly 

 straight, with the stigma at the apex, but often incurved in fruiting so that the 

 seed and embryo are bent into a crescent or ring. Chiefly a tropical family. 



* Sepals and petals present ; anthers 4-celled ; seed incurved. 



1. Cocculus. Stamens, petals, and sepals each 6. 



2. Menispermum. Stamens 12-24, slender. Petals 6-8. 



* * Petals none ; anthers 2-celled ; seed saucer-shaped. 

 8. Calycocarpum. Stamens In the sterile flowers 12 ; in the fertile flowers 6, abortive. 



1. C6CCULUS DC. 



Sepals, petals, and stamens 6, alternating in threes, the two latter short. 

 Anthers 4-celled. Pistils 3-6 in the fertile flowers ; style pointed. Drupe and 

 seed as in Menispermum. Flowers in axillary racemes or panicles. (An old 

 name, a diminutive of coccus, KOKKOS, a berry.) 



1. C. carolinus (L.) DC. Minutely pubescent ; leaves downy beneath, ovate 

 or cordate, entire or sinuately or hastately lobed. variable in shape ; flowers 



