FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS OF INDIANA. 759 



PODOPHYLLUM L. 



P. peltatum L. May Apple. Mandrake. 



A familiar form found throughout the State in rich soil, in 

 moist shaded places. The yellowish fruit is edible, but has a 

 rather sickening odor. 



Flowers in May. 



Clark (Barnes); Monroe and Vigo (Blatchley); Putnam (Mac- 

 Dougal); Fayette (Hessler); Gibson and Posey (Schneck); Tippe- 

 canoe (Cunningham); Daviess (Clements); Jay, Delaware, Ran- 

 dolph, and Wayne (Phinney); Noble (Van Gorder); Franklin 

 (Meyncke); Dearborn (Collins); Jefferson (J. M. Coulter); De- 

 catur and Shelby (Ballard); Hamilton and Marion (Wilson); 

 Steuben (Bradner). 



MENISPERMACE.E. Moonseed Family. 



CEBATHA Forsk. 



C. Carolina (L.) Britton. Carolina Moonseed. 

 (Cocculus Carolinus DC.) 

 A species having entered our flora from the south, and found 

 only in the extreme southwestern counties. It is there common 

 in river bottoms in rich, sandy soil. A slender training or climb- 

 ing vine. 



Flowering season from June until August. 

 Gibson and Posey (Schneck). 



MENISPERMUM L. 



M. Canadense L. Moonseed Vine. 



In woods and along streams, usually in rich alluvial soils in the 

 central and southern counties of the State. An attractive plant 

 climbing over bushes and underbrush, with large cordate leaves, 

 and bearing later in the season clusters of blue-black fruit, not 

 unlike small grapes in appearance. Ordinarily abundant in sta- 

 tions in which it grows. 



Flowers in June and July, or in the extreme southern counties 

 in May and June. 



Monroe and Vigo (Blatchley); Putnam (MacDougal); Fayette 

 (Hessler); Gibson and Posey (Schneck); Tippecanoe (Cunning- 

 ham); Kosciusko (Coulter); Daviess (Clements); Hamilton and 

 Marion (Wilson); Steuben (Bradner). 



50— G'ol. 



