478 SMILACEJE. (SMILAX FAMILY.) 
northward. March and April. — Stems 6'-12/ high. Leaves 1/- 3! long. Pet- 
als 10 — 15" long. 
2. T. discolor, Wray? Rootstock tuberous, vertical; stem stout, solitary ; 
leaves sessile, varying from ovate-lanceolate to broadly ovate, tapering from near 
the base to the apex, 3-7-nerved, variegated above with green and brown or 
dark purple; petals erect, oblong, obtuse, narrowed below, dark purple varying 
into green, rather longer than the lanceolate, spreading sepals ; filaments very 
short, purple. — Rich woods, in the middle and lower districts, Florida to South 
Carolina. Feb. and March. — Stem 6/— 12! high. Leaves 3/-5/ long. Petals 
14! — 2! long. 
* * Flower on an erect or declining peduncle. 
3. T. pusillum, Michx. Stem slender; leaves sessile, lanceolate or ob- 
long, obtuse, 3-nerved ; peduncle erect, shorter than the spreading flower ; petals 
lanceolate, pale flesh-color, acutish, one third longer than the lanceolate obtuse 
sepals ; filaments slender, as long as the anthers ; stigmas united below into à 
slender style, longer than the filaments. — Pine! barrens in the low country, of 
Carolina, Michaux. North Carolina, Curtis. — Stem 6/- 8! high. Leaves 1j/- 
2'long. Flower 8'- 10" long. 
4. T. erectum, L. Stem solitary; leaves sessile, broadly rhomboidal, 
abruptly acuminate, acute at the base; peduncles longer than the spreading 
flowers (13 - 3' long), at length declined; petals oval or oblong, obtuse or 
acutish, dark-purple, rather longer than the lanceolate-ovate acute sepals; fila- 
ments shorter than the anthers, or the short and distinct stigmas. . (T. rhomboi- 
deum, Michx.) — Varies with smaller white or yellowish flowers. — Shady woods, 
on the mountains of North Carolina, and northward. May.— Stem 1° high. 
Leaves 3! — 5! long, and of the same width. Flowers 1! - 14! long, fetid. 
5. T. grandiflorum, Salisb. Stem solitary ; leaves rhombic-ovate, 
abruptly acuminate, nearly sessile; peduncle longer than the erect-spreading 
flower, erect or slightly declined; petals obovate, white, much longer and 
broader than the lanceolate acutish sepals; filaments slender, shorter than the 
anthers, nearly equalling the short recurved stigmas. — Shady woods on the 
mountains of Carolina, Elliott, and northward. May.— Stem 19-13? high. 
Leaves 3'— 5! long. Petals 2! long, changing to rose-color. 
6. T. erythrocarpum, Michx. Stem solitary; leaves ovate, long- 
acuminate, rounded at the base, short-petioled ; peduncle (1'- 2' long) erect, 
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