. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. and OUT fig. 48. Spec. Char., 8;c. Leaves peltate, smoothish, somewhat cordate, roundish- angular ; angles bluntish, terminal one abruptly awned, mucronate. Ra- cemes solitary, compound. Petals 8. (Don's Mill.) A deciduous, suffruticose, long, slender twiner. Canada to Carolina. Height 8
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. and OUT fig. 48. Spec. Char., 8;c. Leaves peltate, smoothish, somewhat cordate, roundish- angular ; angles bluntish, terminal one abruptly awned, mucronate. Ra- cemes solitary, compound. Petals 8. (Don's Mill.) A deciduous, suffruticose, long, slender twiner. Canada to Carolina. Height 8 ft. to 12 ft. Introduced in 1713. Flowers small, greenish yellow ; June and July. Berry black; ripe in September. Decaying leaves greenish brown. Vaiielies. -S M. c. 2 lobatum Dec. M. virginicum L. (Dill. Elth.,t. 219.) — This variety is dis- tinguished by the angles of the leaves being acutish, and the flowers of a greenish white. -J M. c. 3 smildcinum. M. iniilacinum Dec. (Jac. Icon., t. 269.; and our/g. 49.)— Leaves smoother, and racemes more simple than in the species. Hoots 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 apparent motion, and is smooth and even, having more the appearance of a herbaceous v^)i plant, than of a shrub. tl^'^'S -J 2. Menispe'rmum dau^ricum Dec. - i^-^-^-^-i* The Daiirian Moonseed. Jdentificatian. Dec. Prod., I. p. 102.; Don's Mill., 1. p. 112. Synonymes. Triloptias AmpelisSgria Fisch.; M. canad^nse Tar. 0 Lam. Engravings. Deless. Icon., ; and our fig. 50. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves peltate, smooth, cor- date, angular; angles acute, terminal one acuminated hardly mucronate. Racemes in pairs, capitulate. (Don's Mill.) A twining, deciduous, suffruticose shrub. Dauria, on rocky hills, near the river Chilca. Height 3 ft. to 10 ft. Introduced in 1818. Flowers yellowi
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