40 MENISPEKMACEAE 



medullary rays; rounded continuous pith; alternate somewhat 

 raised U-shaped leaf-scars with some 15 bundle-traces; no 

 stipule-scars; ovoid terminal buds with numerous rather per- 

 sistent hard pointed scales; odd-pinnate leaves with veiny 

 pungent toothed and often crisped leaflets; small perfect poly- 

 petalous yellowish racemed flowers; and blue glaucous small 

 one-seeded berries. Often placed in Ber~beris. 



1. Leaves distinctly stalked: leaflets about five. 2. 

 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. 



CALYCOCAEPUM. Cupseed. 



Half woody twining plants with slender rather fluted green 

 stems; rounded homogeneous pith; alternate somewhat raised 

 small crescent-shaped leaf-scars with 1 bundle-trace; small 

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

 stalked palmately lobed leaves with rounded sinuses; small 

 imperfect polypetalous flowers in stalked axillary clusters; 

 and berry-like drupe with a large cup-like stone. 

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



COCCULUS. Carolina Moonseed. 

 Half-woody twining plants with somewhat fluted stems; 



