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clothed with fuscous or rufescent pubescence, 1°—3° high, simple 
or sparingly branched. Petiole terete, 2-7” long, hairy ; stipular 
sheath 1{—¥% of the petiole, also pubescent, as well as the tendrils. 
Blade ovate or sometimes oval, acute and mucronate at the apex, 
cordate at base, softly white-pubescent beneath, scantily hairy or 
glabrous and shining above, pellucid-punctate and occasionally 
lineolate, 3~-5-nerved, 2’~4’ long, 10’’-2¥4’ wide. Peduncles 2!'-8 
long, pubescent, 6-30-flowered. Pedicels 1” long. Receptacle 
globose, very hairy, 1-114” broad. Bud oblong-obovate, often 
scantily hairy. Segments of male perianth oblong, 1’—-1 14” long, 
about the length of the stamens; anthers % the length of the fila- 
ments. Segments of female flower 1’ long; ovary ovoid, 1-celled, 
I-ovuled; stigma solitary. Berries red, ovoid, pointed, 21%4"-4 
long, 2’-24%4”’ broad, containing a single large oval light-yellow 
seed, maturing the second year.* ; 
Dry, sandy soil and woodlands. South Carolina to Florida 
and Louisiana. 
14. Smitax Havanensis Jacq. Amer. 262, ¢. 179, /. 102 (1763): 
Smilax dentata Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 774 (1806). 
Glabrous. Stem angled, flexuous, armed with numerous 
small stout hooked prickles; internodes short; often a low pss! 
gling vine, and often climbing high (“to the tops of trees, Bl 
gett). Sometimes the stems are naked or very spar scly ae 
Petioles 1-3 long, about equal to the peduncle ; stipular shea 5 
with smooth or ciliate, sometimes sparsely bristly margins, re 
pying nearly the whole length of the petiole. Blade rigid, prep 
ish, ovate, elliptical or mostly oblong, narrowed or rounded, © ; 
casionally subcordate at the base, mucronate at the apex, =i = 
often emarginate as well as mucronate, commonly spiny yee the 
callous-nerved margins and often so on the midrib Ligne: 
opaque, 3-5-nerved, or 7-nerved from the base, 1/-2/ long, 4 = 
14” wide, increasing in the older leaves to 4’ by 2%’. ee 
thick, angled, 1-2” long, or often apparently none, 4-30 se) 
ered. Pedicels %4”-1” long. Receptacle 1/’—3/” broad, depres the 
globose; bracteoles minute, ovate or acuminate. Segments © 
male perianth, which I have not seen, are, according to i the | 
Candolle, 4/’"— 34’’ long, oblong; stamens % shorter; anthers yh 
length of the filament. The female flowers have segments 
long; ovary 3-celled, 2~3-ovuled; stigmas 2-3. Berries glo 3 i 
23” in diameter. : — 
* We owe our knowledge of this fact to Mr. E. E. Sterns whose articles os on 
Torr. Club, 15: 162 and elsewhere contain matters of great interest in reg? peri 
ious species of Smilax. It is to be regretted that the expressed intention of this | into 
__ observer to publish a revision of the North American species was never Carit” 
