. 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. SOAPBERRY FAMILY. 2. CARDIOSPERMUM L. Sp. PI. 366. 1753. Climbing and extensively branching herbaceous vines, with alternate bipinnate or decom- pound leaves, and small axillary tendril-bearing corymbs of slightly irregular polygamo- dioecious flowers. Tendrils 2 to each corymb, opposite. Pedicels jointed. Sepals 4, the 2 exterior smaller. Petals 4. 2 larger and 2 sma
. 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. SOAPBERRY FAMILY. 2. CARDIOSPERMUM L. Sp. PI. 366. 1753. Climbing and extensively branching herbaceous vines, with alternate bipinnate or decom- pound leaves, and small axillary tendril-bearing corymbs of slightly irregular polygamo- dioecious flowers. Tendrils 2 to each corymb, opposite. Pedicels jointed. Sepals 4, the 2 exterior smaller. Petals 4. 2 larger and 2 smaller. Disk i-sided, undulate. Stamens 8; fila- ments unequal. Ovary 3-celled; style short, 3-cleft; ovules I in each cavity. Capsule inliated, 3-lobed. Seeds arilled at the base; cotyledons conduplicate. [Greek, heart-seed.] About 15 species, of warm and temperate regions, the fol- lowing typical. I. Cardiospermum Halicacabum L. Balloon Mne. Heat^-seed. Fig. 2821. Cardiosfermum Halicacabum L. Sp. PI. 366. 1753. Slender, glabrous or slightly pubescent, climbing, 2°-6° long. Leaves petioled,biternate or bipinnate,2-4'long; segments stalked, ovate or oblong, acute or acuminate, sharply serrate; peduncles commonly longer than the leaves, bearing a few-flowered corymb at the summit; flowers white, 3"-4" broad; capsule much inflated, about l' long, globose-pyriform; seeds globose, nearly black. In waste places. New Brunswick. N. J., Washington, D. C, Kansas, and in ballast about the sea-ports : common in cultivation. Native of tropical America, and widely dif- fused as a weed in the warmer parts of the Old World. Heart-pea. Winter-cherry. Puff-ball. ^i l^ ^-\ Koelreuteria paniculata Laxm., a Chinese tree yellow flowers succeeded by 3-lobed bladery pods, is 1 reported spontaneous from seed in Indiana. /ith pinnate leaves and terminal panicles of luch planted for shade and ornament and is Family 82. RHAMNACEAE Diimort. FI. Belg. Buckthorn F.^mily. 1827. Erect or cl
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