UPRIGHT SMILAX 



inch until the goal is reached. Most of them are 

 covered more or less densely with prickles, whence 

 comes their botanical name, Smilax, scraper. The 

 Sarsaparilla of commerce is a Smilax, and the Smilaxes 

 were formerly called Sarsaparillas. 



Upright Smilax. Smilax ecirrhdta 



The earliest bloomer of the genus here at the north 

 was by the early botanists regarded simply as an un- 

 stable variation of S?nilax herbdcea, the Carrion- 

 Flower, which differs from its brothers in at least one 

 important particular; it is an herb and not a woody 

 vine. The fetid odor of the blossoms gives it its com- 

 mon name. Later botanists have divided the species, 

 and the Upright Smilax is the form that sends up in 



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