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bifid, blunt. Pericarpium : berries two or three, round- 
iih kidney-form, one-celled. Seeds : folitary, kidney- 
form, large. The above character is from M. canadenfe, 
and. fliculd be compared with the frudlifications of the 
other fpecies ; the calyx being fix-leaved, the corolla fix- 
petalled, fix ftamens and three piftils, according to Willich, 
Miller, and others ; or, according to Walter (Carol. 247.) 
the calyx three-leaved, petals three, fcales of the neftary 
fix, fix ltamens, fix germs without any ftyles, and fix ber¬ 
ries.— Effential Character. Male. Petals four outer, eight 
inner; ftamina fixteen. Female. Corolla as in the male ; 
ftamina eight, barren; berries two, one-feeded. There 
are thirteen fpecies. 
1. Menifpermum Canadenfe, or Canadian moon-feed : 
leaves peltate, cordate, roundifh-angular. Root thick, 
woody. Stems many, climbing, becoming woody, and 
rifing to the height of twelve or fourteen feet, twilling 
themfelves about the neighbouring plants for fupport. 
Leaves large, fmooth, with the footftalk almoft in the mid¬ 
dle, and a hollow there on the upper fide. The Hewers 
come out in loofe bunches from the fide of the Hem ; they 
are of an herbaceous colour, fmall, and compofed of two 
rows of oblong oval petals. Stamens very Ihort, ten in 
the male flowers. Germs and berries two, in the female 
flowers, channelled, each containing one feed. The Hem 
twines in a dire&ion contrary to the fun’s apparent mo¬ 
tion, and is fmooth and even. Native of Virginia, Canada, 
and Siberia. Cultivated in 1713 by bilhop Compton. It 
flowers in June and July. 
2. Menifpermum Virginicum, or Virginian moon-feed •- 
upper leaves undivided, lower peltate, cordate, lobed. 
This differs from the preceding in the ihape of the leaves, 
■which are angular and fometimes heart-fhaped, but not 
peltate, having the footftalk at the bafe. The Hems be¬ 
come woody, and rife nearly as high as thofe of the firft 
fort. The flowers and berries do not differ from them. 
Native of Virginia and Carolina. Cultivated in the El- 
tham garden about 1732. 
3. Menifpermum Japonicum, or Japanefe moon-feed : 
leaves peltate, rounded-ovate, entire. Stem herbaceous, 
twining, ftriated with feveral angles, fmooth in all parts, 
Ample. Leaves alternate, acuminate, the point blunt and 
fubretufe, glaucous underneath, the nerves running out 
from the centre, a hand in length ; petioles twining, 
grooved, fcarcely twilled, a finger’s length and more. 
Flowers axillary, decompoundedly fubumbelled, pedi- 
eelled, dioecous. Seed white. Native of Japan. 
4. Menifpermum Carolinum, or Carolina moon-feed: 
leaves cordate, villofe underneath. This differs from the 
fiecond fort in its branches not becoming woody as in that. 
The flems are herbaceous ; the leaves entire and hairy, 
and not more than half fo large as thofe of the fecond, 
nor is the plant fo hardy, fo that it does not produce flow¬ 
ers in England, unlel's the feafon prove very warm. Na¬ 
tive of Carolina.' Introduced in 1765 by Mr. John Cree. 
Mr. Miller however cultivated this with the firft and fecond 
forts in 1759. 
5. Menifpermum cocculus, or jagged Indian-berry 
moon-feed : leaves cordate, retufe, mucronate; Item jag¬ 
ged. The twilling Hems are ufually the thicknefs of the 
human arm or thicker, irregular, and covered with a thick, 
lacerated, wrinkled bark; the branches terminate in ftrong 
Ample tendrils. Leaves alternate, firm, a fpan long, deep 
green above, very yellow and lanuginofe underneath, on 
long flout petioles, bent in or tiexuofe near the bafe. 
Bunches of flowers a foot and a half long, dividing into 
feveral lateral ones ; petals fix, white, reflex ; the flowers 
have an unpleafant fmell. Fruit in bunches like grapes, 
but fmaller ; firft white, then red, and finally blackilh 
purple.; ufually two or three, feldom four, together, on a 
thickifh pyramidal wrinkled peduncle. Pulp foft. Stone 
round, like that of a cherry, but a little larger, wrinkled 
and granulated, having a fifl'ure or aperture on one fide, 
. arid a white bifid kernel within. Thele berries are ufed to 
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intoxicate flfli, birds, &c. in order to take them, being 
made up into a pafte. Native of the Eaft Indies. 
6. Menifpermum crifpum, or curled moon-feed: leaves 
cordate; item quadrangular, curled. Native of Bengal. 
7. Menifpermum acutum, or fliarp-leaved moon-feed : 
leaves cordate, behind angular, acuminate ; item round, 
ftriated. Stem twining, Ample, all over fmooth. Leaves 
alternate, fmooth, a hand in length and breadth. Native 
of Japan. 
’ 8. Menifpermum orbiculatum, or round-leaved moon- 
feed : leaves orbicular, villofe underneath. The whole 
of this plant is very finely villofe. Leaves alternate, on 
very Ihort petioles ; the branch-leaves ovate, an inch 
long, the upper ones gradually fmaller. Native of the 
Eaft Indies and Japan. 
9. Menifpermum hirfutum, or hairy-leaved moon-feed: 
branch-leaves ovate ; ftem-leaves cordate, villofe, tomen- 
tofe, underneath. Native of the Eaft Indies. 
10. Menifpermum eduie, or eatable moon-feed : leaves 
oblong, finooth ; flowers fix-ftamened. The whole plant 
is fmooth ; but in habit fo like M. hirfutum, that there 
is fcarcely any limit between them. Native of Arabia. 
11. Menifpermum myofotoides: leaves linear-lanceo¬ 
late, hirfute. Native of the Eaft Indies. Perhaps it may 
be only the female of the ninth fpecies, which varies much 
ir the form of the leaves. 
2. Menifpermum trilobum: leaves three-lobed. Stem 
filiform, twining, little branched. All parts of the plant 
rough-haired and villofe. Leaves alternate, acute with a 
long point, quite entire, nerved, paler underneath, an 
inch long. Native of Japan, flowering in Auguft and 
September ; found alfo in the province of Kiang-nan in 
China, by fir George Staunton. Native of Ceylon. 
13. Menifpermum feneftratum. Added by Gartner. 
A native of Ceylon. 
Propagation and Culture. The firft and fecond forts are 
eafily propagated by laying down the branches in autumn. 
They will have made good roots by the following autumn, 
w'hen they may be feparated from the old plant, and tranl- 
planted where they are defigned to remain. Their branches 
being (lender and weak, they require fupport. If planted 
near trees, they will thrive better than in an open iitua- 
tion. N° 4. may be propagated by parting the roots, 
which fpread out on the fide, fo that part of them may be 
cut off every other year ; the beil time for doing this is in 
the lpring, a little before the plants begin to flioot; thefe 
fliouid be planted in,a warm iituation and have a light (oil; 
for in ftrong land, where the wet is detained in winter, 
the roots are apt to rot; therefore, if they are planted dole 
to a wall expofed to the fouth or weft, their ilalks may be 
faftened againft the wall, to prevent their trailing upon 
the ground; and in’this fituation the plants will fre¬ 
quently flower ; and, by having a little ftielter in fevere 
froll, their ftalks may be preferved frpm'injury. All thefe 
plants afford ornament and variety in the lhrubberies and 
other parts of pleafure-grounds. 
ME'NITZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Brunn : 
nine miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Brunn. 
ME'NIUS, a plebeian conlul at Rome. He was the firft 
who made the roftrum at Rome, with the beaks (rojira) 
of the enemy’s (hips. 
MEN'KIN, a town of Afiatlc Turkey, in Natolia: 
thirty-fix miles north-eaft of Bolh 
MEN'MEN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: ten 
miles north-weft of Smyrna. 
MEN'NO, furnamed Sirnonfon , a celebrated and leading- 
minifter among the Anabaptifts in the fixteenth century, 
after whom the members of that feci in the Low Countries 
were called Mennonites. He was born at Witmarfum, a 
village in the neighbourhood of Bolfwert in Friefland, in 
the year 1505. His parents, who were Catholics, caufed 
him to be educated to the church ; and, after he had been 
ordained prieft, he preached the dodlrines of popery with 
great zeal for home time 3 fifft at a village belonging to 
a 
