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Smilax tamnifolia Michx. Halberd-leaved Smilax. 



Smilax tamnifolia Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. II. 238. 1803 [Carolina]. — Knies- 

 kern 32. — Willis 63. — Gray Man. Ed. I. 486. 1848. — Britton 240. 



fSmilax pandnratus Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. I. 251. 1814 [as relates to N. J.]. 



"Smilax tamnoidcs Willis 63. 



fSmilax pseudochina Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. I. 250. 1814 [as relates to N. J.]. 

 —Willis 63. 



Frequent or common in moist sandy ground, usually in shade, 

 throughout our region, but no farther north. Most plentiful in 

 the Pine Barrens. 



The variations in leaf-form exhibited by this species may have 

 had something to do with the inclusion of Smilax hona-nox 

 (= pandurahis) and S. pseudochina among the plants of New 

 Jersey in the various editions of Gray's Manual, Willis' list, etc. 

 Both are given by Pursh as occurring in the State, and subse- 

 quent records are merely copied from him. Whatever may have 

 been the source of his statement, it was apparently quite 

 erroneous, as there is no' evidence that either species is found in 

 New Jersey. 



PL — iMid-June to early July. Fr. — Early autumn of the first 

 season. 



Middle Distinct— Lzke Como (NB), Spring Lake (C), Freehold (C), 

 Farmingdale, Pt. Pleasant (S), Repaupo, Camden (P), Tomlin (S), York- 

 town, Beaver Dam. 



Pine Barrens. — Hanover, Speedwell (S), Barnegat, Waretown, Coxe's, 

 Clementon (S), Sumner, Sicklerville, Waterford, Cedar Brook, Zona (S), 

 Vineland (S), Hammonton (S), Pleasantville, Egg Harbor City (S), Abse- 

 con (S), Maurice River. 



Cape iTfo3).— Goshen (S), Court House, Bennett, Cold Spring (OHB), 

 Whitesboro (3), Cape May. 



Smilax rotundifoiia L. Greenbrier. 



Smilax rotundifoiia Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 1030. 1753 [Canada]. — Knieskern 31. — 

 Willis 63. — Britton 239. 



Common in swampy thickets throughout the State. 



This is the con^nonest and stoutest of the Greenbriers. While 

 apparently not common in the Pine Barrens proper, it makes 

 the thickets along the edge of the coast strip almost impene- 

 trable with its strong woody stems and stout thorns. 



