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MOONSEED

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 807 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOONSEED  , in

botany, a
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common name for Menispermum, a genus of climbing deciduous shrubs, containing one
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species in North
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America and another in Eastern
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Asia . The former, M. canadense, is a handsome plant, suited to
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damp and shady walls, with large reniform peltate leaves and yellowish flowers borne in profusion on long pendulous racemes .

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