SMILACEAE. 



VOL. I. 



9. Smilax laurifolia L. Laurel-leaved Green- 

 brier. Fig. 1316. 



Smilax laurifolia L. Sp. PI. 1030. 1753. 



Rootstocks bearing tubers sometimes 6' thick, 

 stem stout, high-climbing, terete, striate, armed with 

 strong straight prickles, the branches angled, mostly 

 unarmed. Petioles stout, 3"-8" long; leaves leathery, 

 evergreen, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, acute or ab- 

 ruptly cuspidate at the apex, narrowed at the base, 

 entire, 3-nerved, or sometimes with an additional 

 pair of nerves near the margins, 2'-$' long, '-2' 

 wide; peduncles stout, angled, 2"-io" long; umbels 

 6-30-flowered ; pedicels 2"-$' long; anthers usually 

 about one-third shorter than the filaments ; stigma 

 i, sometimes 2; berries black, ovoid, 2"-$" thick, not 

 ripening until the second year. 



In moist woods and thickets, southern New Jersey to 

 Florida and Texas, north in the Mississippi Valley to 

 Arkansas. Bahamas. Bamboo-vine. March-Sept. 



10. Smilax Walter! Pursh. Walter's Green- 

 brier. Red-berry Bamboo. Fig. 1317. 

 Smilax Walteri Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 249. 1814. 



Glabrous, stem angled, prickly below, the branches 

 commonly unarmed. Petioles 2"-6" long, stout, 

 angled; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, rarely lobed 

 at the base, cordate or subcordate, obtuse or ab- 

 ruptly acute at the apex, entire, 5~7-nerved, 2'-$' 

 long, io"-3;}' wide; peduncles 2"-s" long, flattened, 

 thickening in age; umbels 6-i5-flowered ; pedicels 

 very slender, 2"-$" long; berries globose, coral-red 

 (rarely white), 3"-4" in diameter, 2-3-seeded, ripen- 

 ing the first year. 



In wet soil, pine barrens of New Jersey to Florida, 

 Tennessee and Louisiana. Sarsaparilla. April-June. 



ii. Smilax lanceolate. L. Lance-leaved Green- 

 brier. Fig. 1318. 

 Smilax lanceolata L. Sp. PI. 1031. 1753. 



Glabrous, stem terete, usually prickly, the branches 

 slender, long, slightly angled, mostly unarmed. 

 Petioles i"-2" long; leaves rather thin, lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the 

 base, entire, shining above, 5~7-nerved, 2'-$' long, 

 6"-2o" wide ; peduncles thick, angled, 3"-8" long ; 

 umbels 8-40-flowered ; pedicels 2"-f long; filaments 

 longer than the anthers ; berries dark red, globose, 

 2"-3" in diameter, usually 2-seeded, ripening the first 

 year. 



In thickets, Virginia to Arkansas, Florida and Texas. 

 March-Aug. 



Family 26. HAEMODORACEAE R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holi. i : 299. 1810. 



BLOOD WORT FAMILY. 



Perennial herbs with erect stems, narrowly linear leaves, and regular or some- 

 what irregular small perfect flowers in terminal cymose panicles. Perianth 

 6-parted or 6-lobed, adnate to the ovary, persistent. Stamens 3, opposite the 

 3 inner perianth-segments. Ovary wholly or partly interior, 3-celled or rarely 

 i-celled ; ovules usually few in each cavity, half-anatropous ; style mostly slender ; 

 stigma small, entire or 3-grooved. Fruit a loculicidally 3-valved capsule. Seeds 

 few or rarely numerous ; embryo small in fleshy endosperm. 



