431 : 
natrow membranous smooth-edged margins 24 as long as the 
petiole. Blade light green, shining above, obtuse or-acute at the 
base, abruptly narrowing into an obtuse tip, sparsely lineolate, 
5-nerved, 11%4’-214’ long, 10-1 34’ wide. Pedicels very un- 
equal, 1-4” long. Receptacle small, globular; bracteoles min- 
ute, triangular. Segments of male perianth narrowly oblanceolate, 
2" long, about the length of the stamens; stamens 6; anthers yy 
the length of the filament. Female flowers and fruit not seen. 
Collected in the sand on the northern slope of the Stone 
Mountain, Georgia, July 17, 1893, by Mr. John K. Small, in whose 
_ honor it is here named. , 
tt} Fruit ripening the second year. 
12, SMILAX LAURIFOLIA L. Sp. Pl. 1030 (1753). 
_Glabrous. Stem climbing high, stout, terete, striate, armed 
with strong straight prickles; branches angular, unarmed. Peti- 
ole stout, Striate, 3-8” long; stipular sheath with even or cilio- 
late margins, 14 to 4 as long as the petiole. Blade thick, coria- 
ceous, evergreen, feebly shining above, varying from elliptical to 
oblong-lanceolate, acute at base, acute or abruptly cuspidate at 
4pex, smooth on the margins, minutely pellucid-punctate, 3- 
nerved, occasionally with an obscure marginal nerve on each side, 
2-474’ long; 6/2’ broad. Extreme forms with linear leaves 514’ 
long and 3” wide (var. éupleurifolia, Delile) were collected by M. 
; Curtis in South Carolina, and others 7’ long and 5%’ wide, 
tom Florida, are in the herb. of Dr. Chapman. Peduncle usu- 
ally Shorter than the petiole, 2-10” long, stout, angled, 6—30- 
owered. Pedicels 2/3” long. Receptacle globular, 1-2’ in 
diameter ; bracteoles minute, ovate. Segments of male perianth 
oblong, 244” _ 37 long; stamens a little shorter; anthers usually 
about ¥% shorter than the filaments. Female flowers with oblong 
_ Segments, 114/"_2/7 long, 6 staminodia, an ovary commonly I- 
rarely 2-celled, and with I, rarely 2 stigmas. Berries black, 
ovoid, 23" in diameter, mostly 1-seeded, 8-12 in number, not 
Maturing until the second year. ‘ 
Swamps and moist thickets. Pine barrens, New Jersey to 
Bor ida, west to Texas and Arkansas. March-September. 
++ Berries red. 
"3. SMILAx pumiLa Walt. Fl. Car. 244 (1788). 
Smilax pubera Michx, Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 238 (1803). 
Smilax puberua Kunth, Enum. 5: 193 (1850). 
at Rootstock tuberous, tubers small, sometimes massed together a 
°88¢ of stem, throwing out fibrous roots. Stem terete, unarmed, — 
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