. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. MENISPERMUM. 13C0. Leaf of Mcnispermum Canadense (XK)- are peltate near the margin,"and axillary or super-axil- lary panicles or cymes of small dioecious Hs.: fr. a com- pressed berry-like drupe, containing a flattened crescent- shaped or curved stone (whence the
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. MENISPERMUM. 13C0. Leaf of Mcnispermum Canadense (XK)- are peltate near the margin,"and axillary or super-axil- lary panicles or cymes of small dioecious Hs.: fr. a com- pressed berry-like drupe, containing a flattened crescent- shaped or curved stone (whence the name Moonseed): stamens 9-24, with 4-loculed anthers in the staminate fls., 6 and sterile in the pistillate fls.; pistils 2-4, with broad stigmas; sepals 4-8, in 2 series; petalsC-8, shorter than the sepals. Both the Moonseeds are neat and inter- esting vines, and are hardy in the northern states and Ontario. Propagated readily by seeds ; or plants of M. Canadenfse may be dug from the wild. Cuttings of ripened wood may also be used. CanadSnse, Linn. Comsion Moonseed. Fig. 1390. Stems slender and terete, flocculent-pubescent when young, but becoming glabrous, twining 10 ft. or more high : Ivs. round-ovate to ovate-cordate, entire, but usually angulate-lobed, the long petiole tached just inside the margin : fls. green ish white, in loose, straggling panicles, the sepals and petals usually 6, the stamens in the terminal fls. 17-20 arrl in the lateral ones 11 or 12: fr. hlnivli l,l;i(k. '4 in. in diam , resembling small u'l^ii"--. \lii\i soiK in thickets ami , i^ in Manitoba and south to Ga. I'JIO. Dairicum, DC. In habit much like the above: Ivs. smaller, deeper green, cordate and angular: fls. incj'mes, yellowish, theter niinal ones with 6 sepals, 9 or 10 petals and about 20 stamens, the lateral ones with 4 sepals, 6 petals and about 12 stamens East ern Asia.âVariable. Rarely planted m thi country. L. H B MENTHA (from the Greek name of the nymph Minthe)
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