PENNELL: PLANTS OF SOUTHERN UNITED STATES 417 
NEBRASKA. Lancaster: Lincoln, H. J. Webber (Y). 
Missouri. Greene: Springfield, P. C. Standley 9745 < Sep- 
tember 2 (U). 
5. SMILAX LASIONEURON Hook. 
Smilax lasioneuron Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 173. pl. 187, A. 1840. 
‘Hab. Carlton House Fort on the Saskatchawan, Dr. Richard- 
son.”” Type not verified, but evidently plant here considered. 
Coprosmanthus lasioneuron Kunth, Enum. Pl. 5: 265. 1850. 
Smilax herbacea y lasioneuron A. DC. Monogr. Phan. 1:52. 1878. 
(?) Smilax diversifolia Small, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 607. 1898. 
‘The original specimens were collected by the writer along 
the Flint River near Albany, Georgia, May 24-28, 1895.” 
Type, in immature fruit, seen in the herbarium of Columbia 
University at the New York Botanical Garden. Needs 
to be studied in flower and mature fruit. 
(?) Nemexia diversifolia Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 281. 1903. 
Nemexia herbacea melica A. Nels. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 17: 175. 
1904. ‘“‘I take as type Mr. Andrews’ specimens from Boulder 
Cafion [Colorado],—fruit in 1903, flowers (staminate and 
pistillate) in 1904." Type not seen, but evidently plant here _ 
considered. ; 
Nemexia lasioneuron Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 32: 610. 1905 
Moist soil, thickets, and along streams; southwestern Ontario 
and Ohio to Georgia, Alabama, Colorado and Wyoming. Inter- 
grades with S. herbacea and with S. ecirrhata. Through the Missis- 
sippi Valley this species grows much larger and frequently bears 
peduncles much longer than does the typical form of drier western 
regions. 
Ontario. Huron: Wingham, J. A. Morton 5971 > June 25 
(A; ¥). 
Grorcta. Dougherty: Albany, J. K. Small (Y), type of 
S. diversifolia Small. 
ALABAMA. Bullock: Union Springs, 
14675a (B). 
Kentucky. Warren: near Green River, S. F. Price (M). 
Ouro. ‘Hamilton: Cincinnati, C. G. Lloyd > May 23 (M). 
InpDIANA. Allen: Fort Wayne, F. W. Pennell 5301 (P). Wells: 
Bluffton, C. C. Deam 14 (M, VU). 
Biltmore Herbarium 
