40 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. canapE’nszE. The Canadian Moonseed. 
Identification. Lin. Sp.; Dec. Prod., 1. p.102.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 112.3; Tor. and Gray 1. p. 48. 
Synonymes. M. canadénse var. « Lamarck ; M. angulatum Moench ; Ménisperme du Canada, Bon. 
Jard.; Canadischer Mondsaame, Ger. : 
Engravings. Schkuhr. H., 3. t. 337.; Lam. Dict., t. 824.; and our fig. 48. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves peltate, smoothish, somewhat cordate, roundish- 
angular ; angles bluntish, terminal one abruptly awned, mucronate. Ra- 
zs cemes solitary, compound. Petals 8. (Don’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. 
Varieties. 
 M.c.2 lobatum Dec. M. 
virginicum LZ. (Dill. 
Elth., t. 178. fig. 219.) 
— This variety is dis- 
tinguished by the angles of the leaves being 
acutish, and the flowers of a greenish white, 
2 M.c. 3 smilécinum. M. smilacinum Dee. 
(Jac. Icon., t. 269.; and our fig. 49.) — : 
Leaves smoother, and racemes more simple 9 Menispéyeum canadénse 
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. 
4 2. MENIsPE’RMUM DAU‘RICUM Dec. 
The Daiirian Moonseed. 
Identification. Dec. Prod.,1.p.102.; Don’s Mill., 1. p.112. 
Synonymes. Trilophus Ampelisdgria Fisch. ; M. canadénse 
var. 8 Lam. 
Engravings. Deless. Icon., 1. t. 100. ; and our fig. 50. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves peltate, smooth, cor- 
date, angular; angles acute, terminal one 
acuminated hardly mucronate. Racemes in 
pairs, capitulate. (Don’s Mill.) A twining, 
deciduous, suffruticose shrub. Dauria, on 
rocky hills, near the river Chilca. Height 
5ft. to 10 ft. Introduced in 1838. Flowers 
yellowish ; June and July. Berries black ; 
ripe in September, 50. Menispérmum diiricum. 
Resembles the preceding species, and probably only a variety of it. 
Genus II. 
2 CO'CCULUS Bauh. Tae Coccurus. Lin. Syst. Dice’cia Hexdndria. 
Identification, Bauh. Pin., 511.; Dec. Prod., 1. p.96.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 104. 
4S. Menispér. canadénse. 
