. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 2. SOAPBERRY FAMILY. 501 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
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 2. SOAPBERRY FAMILY. 501 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 inflated, 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 Vine. Heart-seed. Fig. 2821. Cardiospermum Halicacabum L. Sp. PI. ;^66. 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-pyrif orm; 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. Summer. Koelreuteria paniculata Laxm., a Chinese tree with pinnate leaves and terminal panicles of yellow flowers succeeded by 3-lobed bladery pods, is much planted for shade and ornament and is reported spontaneous from seed in Indiana. Family 82. RHAMNACEAE Dumort. Fl. Belg. 102. 1827. Buckthorn Fam
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