. 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. Botany. Genus 2. MOONSEED FAMILY. 1776. 2. EPIBATERIUM Forst. Char. Gen. 107. [Cebatiia Forsk. Fl. AEgypt. 171 Hyponym. i; [CoccuLus DC. Syst. Veg. i: 515. 1818.] Climbing vines with small dioecious panicled flowers. Sepals 6, arranged in 2 series. Petals 6, shorter than the sepals, concave. Stamens 6; anthers 4-celled or 4-lobed. Pistils 3-6, sometimes accompanied by sterile
. 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. Botany. Genus 2. MOONSEED FAMILY. 1776. 2. EPIBATERIUM Forst. Char. Gen. 107. [Cebatiia Forsk. Fl. AEgypt. 171 Hyponym. i; [CoccuLus DC. Syst. Veg. i: 515. 1818.] Climbing vines with small dioecious panicled flowers. Sepals 6, arranged in 2 series. Petals 6, shorter than the sepals, concave. Stamens 6; anthers 4-celled or 4-lobed. Pistils 3-6, sometimes accompanied by sterile filaments; styles erect; stigma entire. Drupe globose or ovoid, the stone flattened, curved. [Greek, referring to the climbing habit.] A genus of about 11 species, mainly of tropical regions, two or three in the temperate zones. Type soecies: Epibaterium pendulum Forst. I. Epibaterium carolinum (L.) Britton. Carolina Moonseed. Fig. 1963. Menispermum carolinum L. Sp. PI. 340. 1753. Cocculus cjrolinus DC. Syst. Veg. i: 524. 1818. Ccbaiha Carolina Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 162. 1894. A slender vine, trailing, or climbing to the height of several feet, the stem glabrous or pubescent. Leaves broadly ovate, 2-4' long, cordate or rounded at the base, entire or lobed, acute or obtuse, some- times densely pubescent beneath, mainly glabrous above; petioles slender, 1-4' long; panicles axillary and terminal, loose, 1-5' long; flowers about i" broad; drupe red, laterally flattened, 2"'-3" in diam- eter, the stone curved into a closed spiral, crested on the sides and back. Along streams, Virginia to Illinois and Kansas, south to Florida and Texas. Red-berry moonseed. 3. MENISPERMUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 340. 1753. High climbing vines, with small whitish panicled flowers. Sepals 4-8, arranged in 2 series, longer than the 6-8 petals. Stamens 12-24. Anthers 4-celled. Pistils 2-4, inserted on a slightly elevated receptacle and generally accompanied by 6 sterile filame
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