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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
Linn. Sp. 1468 ; Lam. Diet. iv. 97; Willd. Sp. PL iv. 825 ; 
Mich. FI. Bor. ii. 242 ; — Wendlandia populifolia, Willd. Sp. 
ii. 275 ; Pair. Diet. viii. 796 ; — Androphylax scandens, Wendl. 
Obs. ii. 38; — ramulis teretibus^ striatis, puberulis; folds sub- 
orbicularibus vel obovatis, inio truncatis aut cuneato-bisinuatis, 
interdum cordatis, summum versus paulo angustioribus, apice 
ssepius rotundatis aut obtusis, emarginatis et mucronatis, a 
basi 5-nerviis, adultis supra subglabris, subtus pallidioribus 
et molliter pubescentibus ; petiolo longiusculo, limbo breviore, 
puberulo : paniculis solitariis aut geminis, supra-axillaribus, 
ramis alternis, brevibus, imo bracteolatis^ 1-3-floris; interdum 
e ramulis novellis enatis, axillulis foliolo minore donatis, vel 
ssepe bracteola parva munitis, bine racemum elongatum pu- 
bescentem folio longiorem mentientibus, pedicellis puberulis ; 
sepalis interioi’ibus glabids ; petalis basi auriculatis : racemis 
$ supra-axillaribus, petiolum subsequantibus, alternatim ra- 
mosis, ramis bracteolatis, brevissimis, apice 1-3-floris; ova- 
riis 6, rarius abortu paucioribus. — In Americse comitatibus 
meridionalibus ; v. s. in herb, variis e Carolina, Florida, 
Louisiana et Texas. 
As this species is not included in Dr. A. Gray’s ‘ Manual of 
the Botany of the North- American States,’ we may infer that the 
limit of its growth is entirely within the Southern States. It is 
subject to many variations : its larger leaves in general are 
nearly orbicular, rounded, emarginated, and mucronated at the 
apex, subcordate or bisinuous at the base, glabrous above, finely 
pubescent beneath, 4 inches long, 4^ inches broad, on a pubes- 
cent petiole 3^ inches long ; the younger leaves on the junior 
branches are more ovate, sharply or gradually diminishing to 
an acute summit, and scarcely 1 inch long, while at the inter- 
mediate stages there is a gradual change of form ; they are 
entire or sometimes slightly sinuated on the margin, and, in 
some instances, much lobed on their basal moiety, as in the 
variety hederacecefolius. One or two short corymbiform panicles 
generally issue from the axils of the young branches, and are 
about ^ inch long ; in the upper axils the leaves are supplanted 
by a short acute linear bract, so that the inflorescence then 
assumes the form of an elongated terminal raceme : an axillary 
raceme as long as the leaf is not unfrequent ; but, though flori- 
ferous, the leaves are then abortive. Such an inflorescence is 
figured by Dr. Asa Gray in his ‘ Genera of the United States,’ 
pi. 28. 
V ar. hederacecefolius) — Menispermum hederacesefolium, Dill.Elth. 
223, t. 178. f. 219; — Menispermum Virginicum, Linn. Sp. 
PI. 1468; Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 824; Lam. Diet. iv. 95 ; — folds 
