An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 BERBERIDACEAE. Vol, I. Podophyllum peltatum L. May Apple. Wild Mandrake. Fig. 1961. Fodophyllum peltatum L. Sp. PI. 505. 1753. Erect, l°-ij° high. Basal leaves centrally pel- tate, nearly 1° in diameter, long-petioled, deeply S-9-lobed, glabrons, or pubescent and light green on the lower surface, darker above; lob
An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 BERBERIDACEAE. Vol, I. Podophyllum peltatum L. May Apple. Wild Mandrake. Fig. 1961. Fodophyllum peltatum L. Sp. PI. 505. 1753. Erect, l°-ij° high. Basal leaves centrally pel- tate, nearly 1° in diameter, long-petioled, deeply S-9-lobed, glabrons, or pubescent and light green on the lower surface, darker above; lobes 2-cleft and dentate at the apex; flowering stems appear- ing from different rootstocks, bearing 1-3 similar leaves, or occasionally leafless; flower white, stoiit-peduncled, nodding, 2' broad, appearing from the base of the upper leaf and generally from immediately between the two leaves; sta- mens twice as many as the petals; fruit ovoid, yellowish, 2' long, edible. In low woods, western Quebec and throughout southern Ontario to Minnesota, Kansas, Florida, Louisiana and Texas. Ascends to 2500 ft. in Vir- ginia. Indian- or hog-apple. Devil's-apples. Wild- -lemon. Puck's Raccoon-berry. May. Family 33. MENISPERMACEAE DC. Prodr. i: 95. 1824. MOONSEED Climbing or twining woody or herbaceous vines, with alternate entire or lobed leaves, no stipules, and small dioecious panicled racemose or cymose flowers. .Sepals 4-12. Petals 6, imbricated in 2 rows, sometimes fewer, or none. Stamens about the same number as the petals. Carpels 3-co (generally 6), i-ovuled, sepa- rate ; styles commonly incurved. Fruit drupaceous, often oblique. Endosperm little. Embryo long, curved. About 55 genera and 150 species, mainly of tropical distribution, a few extending into the tem- perate aones. Petals none ; anthers arcelled. i. Calycocarpttm. Petals present; anthers 4-celled or 4-lobed. Stamens 6 ; drupe red. 2. Epibaterium. Stamens 12-many; drupe black. 3. Menispermum. I. CALYCOCARPUM N
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