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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. 



-? 1. M. 



canade'nse. 



The Canadian Moonseed. 



4ti. I\Ier.isp6r. canad^nse. 



49. Menisperrr.um c^inad^nse 

 fmilHcinum. 



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

 Synonymes. M. canadc^nse var. a Lamarck ; M. angulatum Moench ; Menisperme du Canada, Bon. 



Jard. ; Canadischer Mondsaamo, Ger. 

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



Spec. Chrir., Sfc. Leaves peltate, smoothish, somewhat cordate, roundish- 

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

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

 deciduous, suffruticose, long, slender twiner. Canada to 

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

 Flowers small, greenish yellow ; June and July. Berry 

 black ; ripe in September. Decaying leaves greenish 

 brown. 



Varielifs. 



A M. c. 2 lobdtum Dec. M. 

 virginicum L. (Dill. 

 Eirh.,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 smildchium. M. .?milacinum Dec. 

 (Jac. Icon., t. 269.; and our ^g. 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. 



J 2. Menispe'rmuim dau^ricum Dec. 

 The Daiirian Moonseed. 



Identification. Dec. Prod., 1 . p. 102.; Don's Mill., 1. p. 112. 

 Synonymes. Trilophus Arapelisagria Fisch. ; M. canadi^nse 



var. S Lam. 

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



Sjjcc. Char., c^-c. Leaves peltate, smooth, cor- 

 date, angular ; angles acute, terminal one 

 acuminated hardly mucronate. Racemes in 

 pairs, capitulate. (Do)is Mill.) A twining, 

 deciduous, suffruticose shrub. Dauria, on 

 rocky hills, near the river Chilca. Height 

 5 ft. to 10 ft. Introduced in 18 !8. Flowers 

 yellowish ; June and July. Berries black ; 

 ripe in September. 



Menisptjrnuin daiiricum. 



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



Genus II. 



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J, CO'CCULUS J?//. The CoccuLUs. Lin. Syst. Dioe'cia Hexandria. 



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



