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DTOECIA HEXANDRIA. 



1. Hastata. Willd. 



5 i 



s. 



caule 



ansiilato, I *^ Stem angled, prick 



aculeato; ramulis irier-|ly; branches unarmed 



7 



mibus; foliis lanceola 



lis, 



acummalis; 



basi 



leaves lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, auriciilate and 

 hastate at base, three 



nerved, 



the 



margin 



fringed with prickles. 



auriculato-hastatis, tri- 

 nervihus, margine cilia- 

 to-aculeatis. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 782. Piirsh, 1 . p. 249. Nntt. 2. p. 238. 

 S. Bona nox, var. b. Lin. Walt. p. 245. Mich. 2. p. 237- 



A twining plant climbinji over small shrubs. Stem slightly angled, ela- 

 brous, whf-n old armed with s>nall prickles, the young branches distinctly 

 angled, unarmed. Leaves alternate, on petioles nearly an inch long, has- 

 tate at base, the summit lontr, narrow lanceolate, 3 nerved with two smaller 

 lateral nerves, glabrous, ciliate, so netimes entire. F'owers in small j'j'"'^'^^^ 

 umbels, the common peduncle about an inch long. Berri/ globose, black. 



Grows in rich shaded soils. 



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Flowers June — July. 



-^f. 



2. Bona nox. 



Lin. 



S. caule inermi 



? 



an- 



gulato; 



foliis cord at o 



Stem unarmed, 



4 



leaves cor 



gled; 



an 

 date 



ovatis, acutis, septera 1 ovate, acute, 7-nerved, 

 nervibus, ciliato-aculc- j fringed with prickles, 

 atis. 



Sp. pi. 4. p, 781. Pursh, 1. p. 249. Nutt. 2. p. 238 

 S. Variegata, Walt, p, 244. 



kly. 



A vine similar to the preceding, and like that the old wood bf comes pn^- 

 Leaves cordate, ovate, sometimes slightly hastate, glabrous, "^^jl^' 

 loured or variegated on the upper surface, armed with small prickles on 

 midrib and along the margin. Berries black? -of 



Grows like most of the genus in damp rich soils along the margins 



S wa na ps . 



Flowers June 



July. 



