Pennell: Plants of southern United States 417 



Nebraska. Lancaster: Lincoln, H. J. Webber (Y). 

 Missouri. Greene: Springfield, P. C. Standley 9745 < Sep- 

 tember 2 (U). 



5. Smilax lasioneuron Hook. 



Smilax lasioneuron Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2 : 173. pL 187, A . 1840. 

 "Hab. Carlton House Fort on theSaskatchawan, Dr. Richard- 

 son:' Type not verified, but evidently plant here considered. 

 Coprosmanthus lasioneuron Kunth, Enum. PI. 5: 265. 1850. 

 Smilax herbacea 7 lasioneuron A. DC. Monogr. Phan. i : 52. 1878. 

 (?) Smilax diversifolia Small, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 607. 1898. 

 "The original specimens were collected by the writer along 

 the Flint River near Albany, Georgia, May 24-28, 1895." 

 Type, in immature fruit, seen in the herbarium of Columbia 

 University at the New York Botanical Garden. Needs 

 to be studied in flower and mature fruit. 

 (?) Nemexia diversifolia Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 281. 1903. 

 Nemexia herbacea melica A. Nels. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 17: 175. 

 1904. " I take as type Mr. Andrews' specimens from Boulder 

 Canon [Colorado],— fruit in 1903, flowers (staminate and 

 pistillate) in 1904." Type not seen, but evidently plant here 

 considered. 

 Nemexia lasioneuron Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 32: 610. 1905. 



Moist soil, thickets, and along streams; southwestern Ontario 

 and Ohio to Georgia, Alabama, Colorado and Wyoming. Inter- 

 grades with S. herbacea and with S. ecirrhata. Through the Missis- 

 sippi Valley this species grows much larger and frequently bears 

 peduncles much longer than does the typical form of drier western 



regions. 



Ontario. Huron: Wingham, /. A. Morton 5971 > June 25 



(A, Y). 



Georgia. Dougherty: Albany, /. K. Small (Y), type of 



S. diversifolia Small. 



Alabama. Bullock: Union Springs, Biltmore Herbarium 



14675a (B). 



Kentucky. Warren: near Green River, S. F. Price (M). 



Ohio. Hamilton: Cincinnati, C. G. Lloyd > May 23 (M). 



Indiana. Allen : Fort Wayne, F. W. Pennell 5301 (P) . Wells : 

 Bluff ton, C. C. Beam 14 (M, U). 



