427 
9-2’ long, flattened, 10-26-flowered. Pedicels slender, 23" 
long. Flowers greenish-yellow. Segments of male perianth el- 
liptical or oblong-obovate, acute, 2/” long, slightly longer than the 
stamens. Stamens 6 or 7; anthers a little shorter than the fila- 
ment. Female flowers 8-10; stigmas somewhat shorter than the 
ovary. Fruiting pedicels 3-4’ long; receptacle barely 1” in dia- 
meter, without bracteoles. Berries 5 or 6 in number, globose, 
bluish-black, about 3’ in diameter. M. DeCandolle gives the re- 
ceptacle as 5 mm. in diameter, but in none of our specimens are 
they over 1”, 
Low or high ground and rocky places. Ontario to Virginia, 
Louisiana and Texas, west to Minnesota and Nebraska. May-— 
July. 
7. Sitax Carirornica A. Gray in Brew. and Wats. Bot. Cal. ” 
2: 186 (1880). 
Smilax rotundifolia var. Californica A. DC. Monog. Phan. 
1: 75 (1878). 
First collected by Hartweg (No. 2011) in the Sacramento 
Valley, California, in 1846-7, and noted in Benth. Pl. Hart. 341 
(Dec. 1848) as “Smilax rotundifolia L.?” 
Glabrous. Stem angled, often quadrangular on the branches, 
armed with scattered or numerous small weak black and bristly 
spines of different lengths. Petioles 2-5” long ; stipular sheath | 
with narrow smooth or ciliolate margins, ¥% the length of the 
petiole. Blade thin, broadly ovate and cordate at base, or in the 
younger leaves lanceolate and rounded or somewhat acute at base, 
acute or abruptly cuspidate at the apex, entire or slightly erose- 
denticulate on the margins, lineolate, 5—7-nerved, 2’-5’ long and 
9-3’ broad. Peduncles compressed, 8/14” long, 5-20- 
flowered. Pedicels 3-4" long. Flowers greenish-yellow. Seg- 
ments of male perianth elliptical, - or obscurely 3-nerved, acute, 
7 long, Anthers ¥% as longas the filament. Berries bluish-black, 
5-15 in number, globose, about 3’ in diameter, 1-2 seeded. 
McCloud’s River and Butte and Humboldt counties, California; 
Kerbyville, Josephine county, Oregon (Thomas Howell). 
8. Suttax Psrupo-Cuina L. Sp. Pl. 1031 (1753). 
Smilax hederefolia Mill. Dict. fide A. DC. Monog. Phan. 
1: 82. : 
Glabrous. Rootstock tuberous. Stem terete, branches angled, © 
€ lower part of them often beset with numerous straight needle- — _ 
S shaped prickles, the upper part and the branches unarmed or with re 
