. 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. MENISPfiRMUM (Greuk, ). MenispermA- cecv. i\Iu, As conceived by the early botanists, Menisperniuni contained many species wliicli are now referred to CocciiUis, Abuta. Cissampelt>s, Tinospora, Anamirta and other genera. Tlie jj:enus is now considered to be bitypic, one species oconrri
. 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. MENISPfiRMUM (Greuk, ). MenispermA- cecv. i\Iu, As conceived by the early botanists, Menisperniuni contained many species wliicli are now referred to CocciiUis, Abuta. Cissampelt>s, Tinospora, Anamirta and other genera. Tlie jj:enus is now considered to be bitypic, one species oconrring in N. America and the other in Siberia, China and Japan. Moonseeds are twin- ing woody vines, with alternate loufj-petioled Ivs., which MENTHA lOO:;. 13C0. Leaf of JVIenispermum Canadense (,X3a). are peltate near the margin,'and axillary or super-axil- lary panicles or cymes of small dicecious tis.: fr. a com- pressed berry-like drupe, coutainin^j; a riatteued crescent- shaped or curved stone (whence tlie name Moonseed); stamens 0-^-1, with 4-locuIed anthers in the staminate fls., (i and sterile in the pistiUate tls.; pistils 2-4, with broad stigmas; sepals 4-8, in 2 series; petals0-8, shorter than the sepals. Both the iNIoonseeds are neat and inter- esting vines, and are hardy in the northern states and Ontario. Propagated readily by seeds ; or plants of M. Oannclen-se may be dug from the wild. Cuttings of ripened wood may also be used. Canadense, Linn. Common Moonreed. Fig. 1390. Stems slender and terete, Hocciil<^iit-pubescent when young, but becoming glabrous, twining 10 ft. or more high : Ivs. round-ovate to ovate-cordate, sometimes entire, but usually angulate-lobed, the long petiole at- tached just inside the margin : fls. green- ish white, in loose, straugling panicles, the sepals and petals usually (i, the stamens in the terminal fls. 17-20 and in the lateral onesIlorl2: fr. bluish black, V , resembling small grapes. Kich snils in thickets and lowlands.
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