SUPPLEMENT. 



THE FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. 



By Charles Louts Pollard. 

 CHAPTER IX. Continued. 



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Family Smilaceae. Sniilax Family. No one who has travelled 

 in the Middle and Southern Atlantic states can have failed to observe 



Fig. 45.— The carrion-flower, Sinila.i- lierbacea. Origiuai. 



that pest of the Ledgerows and woods, the common greenbrier or cat 

 brier (^S/niltix rot audi f of m^. This plant is the representative of a 



