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314 SMILACACEAE 
—Pineland ponds, swamps, and stream-banks, in acid soil, Si oed m and 
adj. provinees, Fla. to La. and N. J.—Spr. — The leaves are deciduo 
. S. laurifolia L. Stem and branches extensively climbing or high-climbing, 
sometimes armed with very rigid prickles A Mute on leaf-blades lanceo- 
i edes oval, or ovate, or Pata linear, 5-15 cm. lon ng, thick-coriaceous, 
eute or rounded, or subcordate e bas vigoro shoo ots, mostly 3-veined: 
sepals a HET of the pis ie dower ye jus Or elliptic- linear, 4-5 
m. long, or rarely o ar glo o or ovoid-globose, 5-8 mm. in diam me- 
P black: seed 4- n dia blaek.—(BAM500-VINE. BLASPHEME- 
VINE. )—Non all siia often Bd B m wet woods, ue a ad eddie 
m and adj. provinces, Fla. to Tex., Tenn., and N. J.—(W. L)— 
size and vigor this ostelasses our other kinds of E The lU 
uad ely hard woody and branches A impenetrable a prd 
The character of the fe E in requiring tw ub easons to ripen maly 
among our species. The leaves are evergre 
~% S. pumila Walt. Stem and Braces trailing or low-climbing, woolly, un- 
armed : Ad pe quite uniform, ovate to n -ovate or ovate- d 
he bas edun ng 
9—10 em. long, woolly beneath, cordate at t : peduncles about as lon 
as the pera. or shorter, and like woolly: sepals and petals of ue em 
nate flowers linear or linear- TERME abou rn 7 or rarely lo rige 
berry ov Me 8 mm. long, red, acute: seed i. t3 m . lon ng, T 
red.—(SAR 
PARILLA-V NE. a oak woods, sandhills, a. and river- blu 
Coastal Plain. 8. to Tex. and S. C. — Fall.— After the manner of our e 
witch-hazel this smilax blooms in the fall and ripens its fruit in the oe 
The berries, however, may persist on the stems for a year longer 
10. S. havanensis Jacq. Stem and branches more or less armed with short 
stout, dark-tipped slightly recurved ing pee leaf-blades mostly oval or ellip- 
ue varying : ovate or obovate, 4—8 em. long or smaller on branehlets, sinuate 
spiny, or sometimes entire, 'often spiny on the midrib beneath: sepa als and 
epi elliptie o ovate, about 1.5 mm. long: stamens about 1 mm. long: berry 
void, 5-8 mm. long, 1—3-seeded: seed nearly 4 mm. in diameter, brown.—Pine- 
—(W. I. 
nd leaves. e to h 
tallest trees. "Then the spines of the stem nearly or quite disappear and the 
leaf-blades are rm and less de: or entirely smooth. The leaves are 
evergreen. 
milax megacarpa Morong (S. Morong Small) was based on a LLL 
sheet containing fragmentary specimens of Smilax laurifolia and S. Wal 
ORDER AMARYLLIDALES — AwARYLLIDAL ORDER 
Perennial herbs or vines. Leaves with narrow or dilated blades. 
Flowers perfect or dioecious, complete. Perianth of 3 sepals and 3 petals, 
these distinct or partly united. Androecium of 3 or 6 stamens. Gynoe- 
eium mostly 3-earpellary, the ovary wholly or partly inferior. 
Leaves not equitant : stamens 6. 
Uprig sht herbs : flowers perfect. Fam. 1. LEUCOJACEAE. 
vines : flowers dioecious. Fam. 2. TAMACEAE 
Leaves equitant: stamens 
oe not woolly. Fam. 3. IXIA 
rianth woolly. Fam. 4. E ia R 
