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j M. ca.va^esse, L. Leaves peltate, subcortlate, roundish-anglr.<t, 

 often somewhat 3-lobed at apex, with the lobes mucronate ; racemes 

 compound, solitary ; petals 8. Beck, Bot. p. 16. 

 flso, M. virginicum. IVilUL Sp. 4. p. 824. Per*. Syn. 2. p. 627. AiU 

 few. 5. p. 404. MuhL Catal. p. 93. 

 Cixapiax Mexispermdm". Vulgo — Moon-seed. 



n^ perennial. Stem suffruticose, or rather herbaceous, annua], 8 to 12 or 1.7 

 feet Ions, slender, nearly simple, twining and climbing over shruhs and fences, 

 terete, sulcate striate, pubescent when young, finally smoothish, often purplish. 

 Leaves 3 to o inches long and rather wider than long, roundish-angular, often 

 cordate at base, and 3-lobed at apex, palmate-nerved, slightly pubescent on the 

 nerves, thinnish, of a pale purplish-glaucous hue, with purplish nerves and veins ; 

 petioles 3 or 4 inches long, slender, striate, finally smoothish, affixed to the under 

 furface of the leaf, near its base. Flowers small, of a dingy yellowish-green ting- 

 ed with purple,— the staminate ones in paniculate racemes, on solitary slender 

 peduncles 2 or 3 inches in length, which are inserted a little above the axils of 

 the leaves; pedicels filiform, bracteate at base ; petals smaller than th* sepal*. 

 fruit a berrylike roundishreniform drupe, black when mature, and containing 

 t single lunate seed or nut. 

 Hob. Rich woodlands, thickets and fenccrows : frequent ft. June. Fr. Sept. Octo. 



Ofti. The M. virginicum, Willd. &c. appears to be only a variety of this. One 

 or 1 other species have been enumerated in the U. States. 



[Clematis virginiana. Thalictrum dioicum. Polyandria Polygynifi'] 

 [Arum. Monoecia Polyandria. 



Order 11. lloiiadelphia. 



457. JUNIPERUS. L. Mat. Gen. 806. 

 [Supposed from the Celtic, Jeneprus, rough, or harsh ; descriptive of the plant. J 



Stamikatb Fl. Aments ovoid-oblong ; scales peltate, verticillate. 

 Anthers 4 to 8, 1-celled. Pistillate Fl. Aments, or involucres, 

 globose ; scales few, concave, united, becoming a fleshy tuberculate 

 berry, and inclosing 2 or 3 bony nut*. 



Trees, or shrubs : leaves sempervirent, persistent, mostly acerose, ternately 

 Terticillate, or opposite, decussate and imbricated ; flowers in small axillary or 

 terminal aments,— the pistillate ones becoming fleshy or berry-like. Nat* Ord, 

 M8, Lindl> ConifbRjE. 



1. J. communis, L* Leaves subulate, cuspidate, ternate, spreading, 

 longer than the fruit. Beck, Bot. p. 337. 

 Coxmox Junipebus. Vulgo — Juniper. 



Gatl.-Le Genevrier. Germ.-Der Wachholderstrauch. Hisp.-E\ Enebro. 

 Stem 4 to 6 or 8 feet high, much branched. Leaves half an inch to 3 quarters in 

 length, linear-subulate, pungently acuminate, concave and glaucous on the upper 

 turface, obtusely keeled and shining green beneath, sessile, very numerous, and 

 arranged in verticils of 3 on the branches. Staminate flowers in axillary ferru- 

 ginous aments 2 er 3 lines in length, with small peltate stipitate scales. Berries 

 fubglobose, bluish-black and glaucous when mature,— which, according to Dr. 

 Bigelow, is not until the second year from the flower. 



H*b, Hilly woodlands j Brandy wine, &c. not common. FL April. /V. 



