Leaves simple, alternate, peltate or cordate, entire, smooth. Peduncles
axillary, or siipra-axillary. Male and female peduncles ra th e r dissimilar.
Flowers small, greenish white. — T he .species are all of the easiest culture in
common soil, and are [iropagated by dividing the root, or by cuttings.
A 1. M. c a n a d e ' n s e . The C an ad ian Moonseed.
Idenlificalion. L in . Sp. ; Dec. P ro d ., 1. p. 102. ; D o n ’s Mill., 1. p. 112. ; T o r. and Gray 1 p 48
S ynonymes. M. canadénse var. « L am a rc k ; M. angulàtum Maench ; Ménisperme du Canada Bon
Jard. ; Canadischer Mondsaame, Ger.
Engravings. SchUuhr. H., 3. t. 337. ; Lam. Dict., t. 824. ; and ourJîg. 48.
Spec. Clini'., <5-e. Leaves peltate, smoothish, somewhat cordate, roundish-
angular ; angles bluntisli, terminal one abruptly awned, mucronate. R a cemes
46« Men isp é r. canadénse.
solitary, compound. Petals 8 . (Doris Mill.) A
deciduou.s, suffruticose, long, slender twiner. Canada to
Carolina. Height 8 ft. to 12 ft. Introduced in 1713.
Flowers small, greenish yellow ; Ju n e and July. Berry
b la ck; ripe in September. Decaying leaves greenish
brown.
Varieties. Jg;
-Î M . c. 2 lobàtum Dec. M.
virgínicum L . (Dill.
E lth., t. 178. fig. 219.)
— This variety is dis-
tingiiished by the angles of the leaves being
acutish, and the flowers o f a greenish white.
-Î M. c. 3 smilácinum. M. smilácinum Dec.
(Jac. Icon., t. 269.; and our yfg. 49 ) —
Leaves smoother, and racemes more simple
than in the species.
Roots thick and woody, with numerous very slender shoots, which, though
somewhat ligneous, never attain any considerable diameter, and are not of
many years’ duration. The stem twines in a direction contrary to the sun’s
ap[)arent motion, and is smooth and even,
having more the appearance o f a herbaceous
plant, than o f a shrub.
-Î 2 . M e n i s p e ' r m u m u a u ' r i c u m Dec.
The Daiirian Moonseed.
Identification. Dec. P ro d ., !. p. 102.; Do n ’s Mill., I. p. 112.
Synonymes. Trílo p h u s Ampelisàgria Fit; A. ; M. canadénse
var. & L am .
Engravings. Deless. Icon., 1.1. 100. ; and our fig. iiO.
Spec. Char., Sto. Leaves peltate, smooth, cordate,
angular ; angles acute, terminal one
acuminated hardly mucrjnate. Racemes in
pairs, capitulate. (Don's Mill.) A twining,
deciduous, suffruticose shrub. Dauria, on
rocky hills, near the river Chilca. Height
5 ft. to 1 0 ft. Introduced in 18Î8. Flowers
yellowish ; Ju n e and July. Berries black ;
ri[)e in September.
Resembles the preceding s|)ecies, and probably only a variety of it
G e n u s II.
5 0 . M en isp é rin um d a ìir ic tm .
c
c >
c
account of th e g re a te r n umber of th e species bearing sca rlet b ern es.
Gen Char Sepals and petals disposed in a ternary order, in 2, very rarely m
3 'series Male flowers with 6 free stamens op|)Osite the petals ; Jem ale ones
w i t h 3 or 6 carpels. Drupes baccate, 1 to 6 , usua ly obliquely reniform,
somewhat flattened, 1-seeded. Cotyledons distant. (D o n s M ill.)
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous ; cordate o ovate, entue
or lobed. Flowers small. — The only hardy species is C. carolmus, a native
of Carolina, of the same culture as Menispérinum.
S 1. Co'CCULUS c a r o l i ' n u s Dec. The C a ro lin a Cocculiis.
lientijicalion. Dec. P ro d ., 1. p. 88. ; Do n 's Mill., 1.
S nmm/mes. Menispérmum carollnum Lm . ; Wend-
limiia jjopullfôlla WilM., 1‘ursh, and Dill. ; Andro-
nlnlax scândens Weridl. ; BaumgârtiVï scandens
Moench; Ménisperme d e l a Caroline, / r . ; Caroli’*
nischer Mondsaame, Ger.
Engravings. Dii. E lth ., 2‘23. t. 178. f. 219. ; Wendl.
Obs., 3 . 1 .16. ; and o avfig. 51.
Spec. Char., 4c. Leave.s cordate or ovate,
entire, obtuse, and somewhat 34obed ;
under surface velvety pubescent. Male
racemes floriferoiis from the base, female
ones .3-flowered. (Doris Mill.) A twining,
deciduous, suffruticose shrub. North
Carolina and Georgia. Height 6 ft. to
10 ft. Introduced in 1759 Flowers
small, greenish ; Ju n e and July. Fruit
red ; ripe in September. Decaying
leaves yellowish or brownish.
Leaves extremely variable in form, 2 in.
to 4 in. long, often quite entire, hut
usually with several sinuated, obtuse lobe.s.
Drupe red, as large as a small pea.
51. Cécculus carolimi».
A CO CCULUS liauk. T h e C o o c u l d s . Lin. Syst. D ioe 'c i a Hexândria.
Identification. Bauh. P in ., •511. ; Dec. P ro d ., I. p. 96. ; Do n ’s Mill., I. p. 104.
O r d e r V I . B E R B E l l A ' C E Æ .
O l iD . C h a r . Sepals usually 6 , in two whorls, deciduous, and furnished with
petal-like scales on the outside. The petals arc equal in number with the
sepals, and the stamens equal in number with the petals, and opposite to
them. The anthers “ open by reflexed valves ; th a t is to say, the face of
each cell o f the anther peels off except a t the point, where it adheres as if
it were hinged there a structure so remarkable, Dr. Lindley observes, as to
be “ found in no European plants except Berberàceæ and the laurel tribe.”
(Penny Cyc., vol. iv. p. 2 5 9 .)— Bushy shrubs, which throw up numerous
suckers ; natives of the temperate climates of Eurojie, Asia, and North
America.
Leaves simple or compound, alternate, generally exstipulate, deciduous
or persistent ;. shoots generally furnished with prickles ; the sap, and the
colour of the leaves and bark, more or less yellow. Flowers generally
yellow. — The genera containing species hardy in British gardens are two,
Bérberis and Mahònia, which are thus contradistinguished : —
B e ' r b e r i s L. Fetals with 2 glands on the inside of each. Stamens to o th less.
Leaves undivided.
M a h o ' n 7.4 Nutt. Fetals without glands. Stamens furnished with a tooth o n
each side. Leaves pinnate.
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