( §5 ) 
placed at the ends of the branches in a circular man- 
ner, fomewhat refembling an umbrella ; from whence 
it obtained its name. The flowers are compofed of 
ten, or eleven, large, oblong, white petals, the 
exterior ones hanging down; and are fucceeded by 
oblong, conical feed-veflels, between three and four 
inches in length, and about one and a half in diame- 
ter, growing reddifli and difclofing their feeds, when 
ripe, after the fame manner of the others. There 
are faid to be two other fpecies in the fouthern ftates. 
MENISPERMUM. 
MOONSEED. 
Glafs 22. Order 10. Dioecia Decandria. 
T HE Flowers are Male and Female upon feparate plants. 
* The Male. 
The Empalement is two leaved : the leaves are linear and fhort. 
The Corolla has four exterior petals, which are ovate, fpreading 
and equal. And eight interior leller ones, ovate and concave. 
The Filaments are fixteen (or more) cylindrical and rather long- 
er than the corolla. The Anther ce are terminal, very fhort, 
and obtufe four lobed. 
* The Female , on a different plant. 
The Empalement as in the Male. 
The Corolla as the Male. 
The Filaments eight, like the male. The Anthem are pellucid 
. and barren. 
The Germen are two, ovate, incurved, winking and pedicell’d. 
The Styles are folitary, very fiiort and recurved. The Stig- 
mas are bifid and obtufe. 
The Seed-vejjels are two berries, roundi'fh-kidney form and on§ 
cell’d. 
The Seeds are folitary, large, and kidney form, or fomewhat 
orbicular and comprefifed. 
Obf. The Canadian has an Empalement and Corolla of fix leaves, 
alfo fix ftamina and three ftyles. 
The 
