76 MENISPERMACEAE. 



and often crisped leaflets ; small perfect polypetalous yellowish 

 racemed flowers; and blue glaucous small one-seeded berries. 

 Often placed in Berberis. 



1. Leaves distinctly stalked: leaflets about five. . . 

 Leaves nearly sessile : leaflets about nine. 6. 



2. Rather tall. 3. 



Dwarf and spreading. M. repens. 



3. Leaves glossy bright green. M. Aquifolium. 

 Leaves becoming yellow. M. Aquifolium lutescens. 

 Leaves mottled with red. M. Aquifolium amabilis. 

 Leaves spotted. 4. 



4. Variegation white. M. Aquifolium albo-variegata. 

 Variegation yellow. 5. 



5. Spots large and scattered. M. Aquifolium aureo-variegata. 

 Spots small and numerous. M. Aquifolium aucubifolia. 



6. Leaflets gray-green. M. pinnata. 

 Leaflets bright green. M. pinnata Wagneri. 



Family MENISPERMACEAE. Moonseed Family. 

 A small family of climbing plants, of little general use. 



CALYCOCARPUM. Cupseed. 



Half woody twining plants with slender rather fluted green 

 stems ; rounded homogeneous pith ; alternate somewhat raised 

 small crescent-shaped leaf-scars with I bundle-trace; small often 

 superposed buds ; no stipule-scars ; rather large long-stalked 

 palmately lobed leaves with rounded sinuses ; small imperfect 

 rolypetalous flowers in stalked axillary clusters ; and berry-like 

 drupe with a large cup-like stone. 

 Lobes acuminate, sinuses part-elliptical. C. Lyoni. 



COCCULUS. Carolina Moonseeu. 



Half-woody twining plants with somewhat fluted stems ; 

 rounded homogeneous pith ; alternate slightly raised small round- 

 ish leaf-scars with 3 bundle-traces ; no stipule-scars ; small hairy 

 sometimes superposed buds ; rather large long-stalked palmately 

 nerved ovate or sometimes elongated often cordate or hastate 

 leaves, small imperfect polypetalous flowers in axillary racemes 



