412 Pennell: Plants of southern United States 



New York. Nassau: Rockville Center, E. P. Bichiell 

 > June 27 (Y). 



New Jersey. Atlantic: Egg Harbor, /. B. Brinton > June 

 21 (P). Burlington: Atsion, B. Long dziy > July 19 (A). Cam- 

 den: Parkdale, G. W. Bassett 66 > June 14 (A). Cape May: 

 Court House, F. W. Pennell 3 g8 4 > July 15 (A). Cumberland: 

 Beaver Dam, B. Long 4Q43 (A). Gloucester: Repaupo, E. B. 

 Bartram > June 23 (A). Middlesex: near Milltown, N. 

 Williamson > August (Y). Monmouth: Farmingdale, N. Taylor 

 2148 > July 4 (Y). Ocean: Barnegat, B. Long 52 g6 < September 

 29 (A). Salem: Yorktown, B. Long 4137 (A). 



Pennsylvania. Delaware: Tinicum, T. C. Porter (Y). 



Delaware. Sussex: Laurel, A. Commons > June 18 (A). 



Maryland. Dorchester: near Sharptown, /. P. Otis (A). 

 Kent: Chestertown, E. G. Vanatta < August 3 (A). Prince 

 Georges: Hyattsville, F. H. Knowlton > June 27 (U). 



District of Columbia. Terra Cotta, C. S. Pollard 606 (U). 



Virginia. Nansemond: Suffolk, A. A. Heller Q25 > June 

 8-13 (P, U, Y), a large-leaved form. 



South Carolina. Aiken: Graniteville, H. Eggert > May 21 

 (M). Clarendon: Manning, W. Stone 245 > May 21 (A). 



2. Smilax leptanthera Pennell, sp nov. 



Stem striate, glabrous. Leaves alternate; petioles slender, 

 rounded, narrowly channeled above, 6-7 cm. long; blades tri- 

 angular-ovate, cordate at base, acuminate at apex, dull-green 

 above, slightly glaucous beneath, glabrous above and beneath. 

 Tendrils about 7 cm. long, stouter than in S. tamnifolia, two to an 

 axil. Staminate inflorescence: peduncles 12-15 cm. long; umbels 

 thirty-five- to forty-flowered; pedicels filiform, 18-22 mm. long; 

 sepals six, lanceolate, yellowish green, one-nerved, 4 mm. long, 

 spreading to reflexed-spreading; filaments six, 1.2 mm. long, 

 glabrous; anthers linear, recurved-coiled, 1-1.2 mm. long. Pis- 

 tillate inflorescence not seen. 



Type: Warm Springs, Meriwether County, Georgia, collected 

 in flower May 22, 1905, S. M. Tracy 9257, in the herbarium of the 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



Piedmont Region of central Georgia, known only from the 

 original collection. 



Species closely allied to S. tamnifolia. 



