. 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. MENISPEEMUM MENTHA 1003 MENISPERMUM (Greek, moonseed). 3fenispermci- ceie. JIooNSEED. As conceived by the early botanists, Menispermuiu contained many species which are now referred to Cocculus, Abuta, Cissampelos, Tinospora, Anamirta and other genera. The genus is now considered to be bitypic, one species occu
. 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. MENISPEEMUM MENTHA 1003 MENISPERMUM (Greek, moonseed). 3fenispermci- ceie. JIooNSEED. As conceived by the early botanists, Menispermuiu contained many species which are now referred to Cocculus, Abuta, Cissampelos, Tinospora, Anamirta and other genera. The genus is now considered to be bitypic, one species occurring in N. America and the other in Siberia, China and Japan. Moonseeds are twin- ing woody vines, with alternate long-petioled Ivs., which. petiole at- 1350. Leaf of Menispermum Canadense (XK). are peltate near the margin,"and axillary or super-axil- lary panicles or cymes of small dicecious fls.: 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 i-S, in 2 series; petals6-8, 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. Canadense may be dug from the wild. Cuttings of ripened wood may also be used. Canadense, Linn. CoinioN 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, sometimes entire, but usually angulate-lobed, the long 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 and in the lateral ones 11 or 12: fr. bluish black, ^ in. indiam., resembling small grapes. Rich soils in thickets and lowlands, Quebec to Manitoba
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