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" Stem woody, twining around shrubs and trees to the 

 height of ten or fifteen feet, older ones green, mottled with 

 brown, unarmed and pubescent. Racemes supra-axillary 

 and terminal, longer or shorter than the leaves. Flowers 

 small and inconspicuous : Masc ; FL calyx 6 leaved, 3 

 outer ones much smaller, orbicular, concave, greenish- 

 white ; corol 6 petalled, succulent, petals erect, acute, 

 narrow, orange yellow, each embracing a filament at the 

 base ; filament long as the corol, broad at base ; anthers 4 

 lobed, yellow. Fern : FL have a roundish germ with 6 

 rectilineal short styles, producing around drupe, enclosing 

 a single flat, umbilicated or lunate seed, of a hard, stony 

 texture. Sepals 6 ; Petals 6." McRee in Lit. 



A part of Decandolle's description may be acceptable 

 to those who have not his work. . 



" Pedunculi axillares ; Masc : racemosi simplices p'eti- 

 olo vix brevioresj interdum longiores, ab ipsa basi flo- 

 rifera ; Fern : a basi tripartiti aut trifidi, ramulis brevibus 

 1 floris ; sepala sex, extus 2-3 squamis munita ; petala 



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petalis opposita ; Fem : ovaria 3 ; 



baccae 1-3, maturae rubrae (Mich.) ; flores inteidum 



Hab. In sylvis et sepibus Carolinse (L 



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Found at Smithville in sandy soil among scrub oaks; 

 more vigorous at Wilmington on the borders of damp 

 shady woods ; also at Rocky point by Dr. McRee. 

 Flowers in June and July. 



Sir J, E. Smith objects to the genus Cocculus, but I 

 find it in Torrey's Appendix to Lindley, whence I sup- 

 pose it will enter into the American Flora. Our plant 



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