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3. Smilax biltmoreana (Small) J. B.. Norton, comb. nov. 



Nemexia biltmoreana Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 281, 1328. 1903. 



"Type, Biltmore Herbarium, no. 906b, in Herb. N. Y. B. G." 

 Type seen. 



Woodlands; highlands of North Carolina and upper South 



Carolina. 



Flowers in May, fruits in August. 



North Carolina. Buncombe: Biltmore, Biltmore Herbarium 

 906, 906b > May 4 (B, Y). Cleveland : Kings Mountain, Biltmore 

 Herbarium 14954 p. p. (B). Henderson: Flat Rock, Dr. Shoolbred 

 (Y). Rutherford: Hickory Nut Gap, /. K. Small & A. M. 

 Huger < October 3 (Y). 



South Carolina. Greenville: Caesars Head, L. M. Bragg 

 3637 < August 26 (S).* 



4. Smilax herbacea L. 



Smilax herbacea L. Sp. PI. 1030. 1753- "Habitat in Virginia, 

 Marilandia." Type, a specimen in the Linnaean herbarium, 

 obtained evidently from Gronovius and labeled by him "Smilax 

 annua inermis caule fusco purpureo glabro claviculis plurimis 

 teneris vestito. Ex alis foliorum oritur pedunculus teres glaber 

 semipedalis gerens fiores in capitulos globos, collectos." This 

 is evidently a duplicate of Clayton's No. 541 from Virginia, 

 identified both in the Linnaean and Gronovian herbaria as 

 the plant here considered. 



Smilax Pseudo China L. /. c. 1031. 1753- "Habitat in Virginia, 

 Jamaica." Species clearly aggregate, represented in the 

 Linnean herbarium by specimens written up by Linnaeus as 

 follows, according to a letter of B. D. Jackson: "three sheets 

 pinned together; the first is '11 K Pseudo China,' it is a 

 barren branch, the leaves leathery: the second sheet is written 

 up ' II ' and seems quite the same plant as the former, but has 

 one berry, the third sheet is of a West Indian species, coll. by 

 Patrick Browne in Jamaica, probably S. celastr aides." From 

 the wording of the Linnaean description none of these can be 

 considered the type of S. Pseudo China, but this would be 



* Specimens from the Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina, are in- 

 dicated by " S." 



