312 SMILACACEAE 
II. HISPIDAE 
eaf-blades thin-c coriaceous, with the veins pale beneath. 2. S. hispida. 
Leaf- blades firm-coriaceous, the veins not pale. 3. S. Bona-Noa. 
III. ROTUNDIFOLIA 
Leaf-blades not lobed, smooth-margined and ati on the 
veins beneath. 4. S. rotundifolia. 
AURICULATAE 
ed. 
IV. 
Leaf-blades usually lobed, prominently vein . S. auriculata. 
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V. AANCEOLATAE 
Leaf-blades deep-green and shining above, paler beneath: pe- 
duncle terete: berry dull-red. 
Leaf-blade equally green on both sides: peduncle flattened: 
berry bright coral-red. 
c 
. S. lanceolata. 
. S. Walteri. 
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LAURIFOLIAE 
Very vigorous vine, with terete or la ngled bran ches : oe 
green or whitish the first year, black the second y 
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. S. laurifolia. 
II. PUMILAE 
Soft-woody trailing or low-climbing unarmed vine, the leaves 
22 fruits Ji nene the stem pubescent like the leaves: 
e seeded. 
rry 1- 9. S. pumila. 
VIII. HAVANENSES 
Rigid prickle-armed vine, with angled stems: leaf-blades with 
the TG passus sinuate and spiny toothed or Gades . 
berry jet-bla 10. S. havanensis. 
1. S. glauca lius Stem Pers branches diffuse or widely climbing, terete or 
nearly so, ofte with few scattered n leaf-blades ovate, usually broadly 
so, ranging to elliptic- ova i. or orbieular-ovate, or, on vigorous shoots, 0 ae cular- 
reniform to pandurate-lanceolate, moy 4-9 em. long, glaucous beneath, 
smooth-edged: peduncle longer than the 
petiole, very slender: sepals and ueni 
j m. lon 
Sandy woods, thickets, margins of 
swamps, and ra various provinces, 
Fla. to Tex. and Mass.—Spr.— 
The leaves are d E 
2. S. incer. Muhl. Stem and inca 
diffuse and  high-climbing, mewhat 
of S 
ly beset with dark or rarely pale, 
n abru wW cordate at 
staminate flower T or "oo pue 4-5 mm. long: berry globular, 6—8 
mm. in du i seed 4—5.5 mm. "s diameter, dark-brown.—( H AGBRIER. 
HELLFETTER.  BRISTLY-GREENBRIER.)— Rich woods and thiekets, often along 
"Streams, various mcd, dd Coastal PO Ga. to Tex., Minn., Ont., N. 
—Spr.—The dominant rounding of the le af- -bases, with usually 
no dence p m serve to pne EN this from the following species. 
3. S, Bona-Nox L. Stem and branches extensively climbing, often high- 
climbing, sometimes with scattered rigid subulate prickles, more or less 4- 
