Menispermum
(from mene, the moon, and sperma, a seed; in allusion to the shape of the seed). Moon Seed. ORD. Menispermaceae. A genus comprising only two species of climbing deciduous shrubs, one of which is North American, and the other an inhabitant of Eastern Asia. Flowers greenish-white, small, paniculate. Drupe compressed. Leaves often sub-peltate, palmately lobed or angular. The under-mentioned species is a very handsome plant for damp and shady walls. Propagated by divisions of the root, or by cuttings, in spring. M. canadense (Canadian). fl. yellowish, borne in profusion on long pendulous racemes. Summer. l. large, handsome, reniform, peltate. North America, 1691. (B. M. 1910.)