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DIOECIA HEXANDRIA. 



Stem twining, terete, prickly. Leaves on petioles 6 — S lines long, pan- 

 duriform, acute, sometimca almost hastate, with the lobes round, lucid, some- 

 what rigid, with 3 distinct and 2 or 4 obscure nerves. Flowers in axillary 

 umbels, common peduncle about an inch long, twice as long as the pedicels. 



Berry spherical, black. 



I feel some hesitation in referring to this species the S. Tamnifolia of IVIi- 

 chaux, (2. p. 238.) The plant I am describing is certainly not herbaceous. 



Grows often in dry soils. • 



Flowers 



^^' Caule herhaceo. 



I 



** 



Stem 



herbace- 



ous. 



14. Peduncularis. 



Muhl 



S. caiile tereti, scan- 



dcnte; foliis subrotiui- 

 do-ovatis, cordatis, a- 

 cuminatis, 9-nervibus 

 umbellis longissime pe- 

 dunculatis. 



Stem terete, cliiub- 



fc) 



ovate, near- 



? 



ly round, cordate, acu- 

 minate, 9-nerved; urn- 



pe- 



b 



d uncles. 



on very 



Sp. pL 4* p. 786. Pursh, 1. p. 251- Nutt. 2. p. 238. 

 S. Pulverulenta, Mich. 2- p. 238. 

 S. Ineimis? Walt. p. 244. 



Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, 3 — 5 feet high, terete, unarmed, gla- 

 brous, bearing tendrils. Leaves cordate, ovate, slightly acuminate, nerved, 

 (3 more prominent than the rest) somewliat reticulate, on petioles 2—3 ni- 

 ches long. Flowers in umbels on a common peduncle 4 — 6 inches lon^. 

 Pedicels 5 — 8 lines long. Calyx 6-leaved, leaves linear lanceolate. 

 mens nearly as long as the calyx. Aatlicrs terminal, erect- (Fertile florets 

 producing 6 unfertile filaments. Stigmas 3, each 3-lobed. Oerm 3-ceiled 



Berries blue. Walt. 



Sta- 



J 



) - - 



Grows in rich soils; not common in the low country o( Carolina 

 Flowers May^ — July. Pursh. 



15. Herbacea. 



Li 



ji. 



S. caule snbangula 

 to, erecto; foliis ovali 



Stem slightly an 

 erect; leaves oval 



(Tied, 

 and 



bus cordato-ovatisque, I cordate-ovate. 



acuuii- 



acuminatis, nervosis, 

 siibtus pubescentibus. 



nate, nerved, uubescent 

 underneath, the lowei 



