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margined: paiiic'le ample and showy, 3-7 dm. long: sepals and petals 4-C cm. 

 long: capsules 7-t) cm. long. — Coastal sand-dunes, — F. K. {Ber., Bah., Cuba, 

 Ant.) — Spaxish-daggek. 



2. Y. filamentosa li. Caudex short: leaves firm, 3-6 dm. long, stiffly erect or 

 spreading, with curly fibers: panicle-branches usually glabrous: capsules 5-6 

 cm. long. — Pinelands. — Adam 'SjjNEEDle. 



Family 5. SMILACACEAE. Smilax Family. 



Perennial armed or unarineJ vines. Leaves alternate : blades several- 

 ribbed and netted-veined, commonly persistent : ])etiole usually bearing a 

 pair of appendages. Flowers dioecious, in axillary peduncled umbels. 

 Perianth regular, usually green, that of the staminate flowers larger than 

 that of the pistillate. Calyx of 3 sepals. Corolla of 3 petals. Androeeium 

 of 6 stamens : anthers erect. Gynoeeium S-carpellaiy. Stigmas 3, sessile, 

 sometimes elongate. Fruit a beriy, with 3 bands of strengthening tissue 

 in the pulp connecting the base and apex. 



1. SMILAX [Touru.] L. Leaf-blades leathery. Flowers not showy. 

 Berries red, blue, or black. Vigorous shoots often bear very large leaves. — 

 Greenbrier. IIorsebrier. Smilax. 



Peduncles of the pistillate plant much longer than the accompanying petiole. 



1. /S'. Dona-Kox. 

 Peduncles of the pistillate plant shorter than the petiole or 

 barely surpassing it. 

 Berries globular or spheroidal : leaf-blades not spiny-toothed. 



Leaf-blades elliptic, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or linear. 2. 8. laurifolia. 



Leaf-blades of an ovate type, often lobed at the base. 3. .S. Bitnichil. 



Berries ovoid or oval : leaf-blades spiny-toothed. 4. S. harauensis. 



1. S. Bona-Nox L. Leaf-blades broadly ovate to hastate or fiddle-shaped, 

 3-12 cm. long, sometimes spinulose-margined, truncate or cordate at the base: 

 pedicels 4-8 mm. long: sepals and j)etals deep-green, those of staminate 

 flowers 4-5 mm. long: berries 4-6 mm. in diameter. — Everglades, pinelands 

 and hammocks. — F. K. 



2. S. laurifolia L. Leaf-blades elliptic, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, or rarely 

 linear, 5-15 cm. long, acute at the ajiex, the base narrow: sepals and petals of 

 the staminate flowers 5-6 mm. long: berries ovoid or globose-ovoid, 4-6 mm. 

 long. — Everglades and low hammocks. — F. K. (Bali., Cuba.) 



3. S. Beyrichii Kunth. Leaf-blades ovate, broadly oblong, or pandurate, 2-10 

 cm. long, cuspidate or mucronate at the apex, entire, more or less auricled or 

 dilated at the base: pedicles 4-8 mm. long: sepals and petals of the staminate 

 flowers 4-5 mm. long: berries subglobose, 3-6 mm. in diameter. — Hammocks 

 and coastal sand-dunes. — F. K. (Bah.) 



4. S. havanensis Jacq. Leaf-blades oblong to orbicular-ovate, 2.5-5 cm. long, 

 spiny-toothed: pedicels 1-2 mm. long: sepals and petals of the staminate 

 flowers 1-2 mm. long: berries oval or ovoid, 4-6 mm. long. — Pinelands. — F. K. 

 (Bah., Cuba, Ant.) 



Order AMARYLLIDALES. 



Perennial herbs or vines. Leaves with narrow or dilated blades. 

 Flowers perfect or dioecious, complete. Perianth of 3 sepals and 3 jjetals, 

 which are distinct or partially united. Androeeium of 3-6 stamens. 

 Gynoeeium " mostly 3-carpellaiy. the ovary partially or wholly infenor. 

 Fruit cajDsular or baccate. 



