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SMILAX SARSAPARILLA. SARSAPARILLA SMILAX. 
S TNO NT MA. Sarfaparilla. Pharm. Lpnd. fcf Edinb. Smilax 
afpera peruviana five Sarfaparilla. Baah. Pin. p. 296. Park. 
Tbeat. p. ij$. Raii Hi/l.p.6$6. Gerard. Emac. p. 856. Smilax 
caule angulato aculeato, foliis ovatis acutis inermibus. Roy. Lugdb. 
Smilax viticulis afperis virginiana, folio hederaceo leni 
, 228. 
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Zarga nobiliflima. Pluck. Phytogr. tab. in.f. 2. 
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Clafs Dioecia. Ord. Hexandria. Lin. Gen. Plant, n 20. 
EJf. Gen. Ch. Masc. Cal. 6-phyllus. Cor. o. 
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Cal. 6-phyllus. Cor. o. 
Fem. 
Styli 3 
Bacca 
I 
3-locularis. Sem. 2. 
Sp. Ch. 
S. caule aculeato angulato, foliis inermibus ovatis retufo- 
mucronatis tnnervns. 
THE root is perennial, divided into feveral branches, which arc 
fomewhat thicker than a goofe quill, ftraight, externally brown, in- 
ternally white, and three or four feet in length : the ftalks are fhrubby, 
long, flender, fcandent, or trailing, angular, and befet with fpines : 
the leaves are ovate, without fpines, pointed, three nerved, and ftand 
alternately upon footftalks, at the bafe of which proceed long tendrils : 
the flowers are male and female on different plants, lateral, and 
ufually ftand three or four together upon a common peduncle : the 
calyx of the male flower is bell-fhaped, divided into fix fegments, 
which are oblong, fpreading, and reflexed at their points : the fila- 
ments are fix, fimple, and furnifhed with oblong antherae : the calyx 
of the female flower is fimilar to that of the male : there is no 
corolla, unlefs the calyx be confidered as fuch : the germen is ovate, 
and fupports three minute ftyles, furnifhed with oblong reflexed hairy 
ftigmata; the fruit is a round three-celled berry, containing two 
globular feeds* 
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