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and thickets, where its rugged vines are often a great annoyance 

 to the wood-man. 



2. Stem herbaceous, not prickly ; leaves thin; ovules in pairs. 



2. S. herb&cea, L. Leaves oblong-cordate and lance-ovate, 

 acuminate, pubescent beneath; flowers exceedingly fetid. 

 HERBACEOUS SMILAX. Carrion-flower. 



Stem 2 to 4 or 6 feet long, erect, or leaning, often flaccid at summit and nodding, 

 mostly simple, angular, frequently purplish. Leaves 2 to 3 inches long; petioles 

 an inch or an inch and a half in length. Umbels globose, about an inch in diam- 

 eter, on peduncles 3 to 5 inches long. 

 Hib. Meadows; fence-rows, &c. : frequent. F Z.May. Fr. Sept. 



Obs. This plant is easily identified by the abominable foetor of 

 its flowers, which, however, is completely dissipated by drying. 



SUBORDER II. TRILLIA^CEAE. 



Herbs; leaves verticillate ; flowers perfect, terminal, the perianth often of disshni- 

 lar and nearly distinct parts (sepals and petals); ovary 3-celled; styles manifest; 

 ovules several in each cell. 



435. TRII/MUM, L. 



[Latin, Trilix, triple; the parts of its structure being chiefly in threes.] 

 Sepals 3, lanceolate, spreading, green, persistent. Petals 3, larger, 

 white, or purple, withering. Anthers linear, adnate, on short fila- 

 ments. Styles subulate, recurved, stigmatic on the inner side. Berry 

 trigonous-ovoid, purple, 3-celled ; seeds obovoid, horizontal. Peren- 

 nials : rhizoma short; stem simple, with 3 leaves in a verticil at 

 summit ; flower solitary, terminal, rather large. 



1. T. p ''llduluill, Muhl. Leaves broadly rhomboid, acuminate,, 

 subsessile; flower pedunculate, pendulous ; petals recurved, white. 

 T. cernuum. Ph. Bigel. A. Gray, &c. not? of L. 

 PENDULOUS TRILLIUM. Three-leaved Night-shade. 



Stem 9 to 15 inches high. Leaves 3 to 5 inches long, and 2 to 4 inches wido. 

 JWunde half an inch to an inch in length. Berry % an inch to near an inch la 

 diameter, fleshy, dark purple when mature. 

 Hob. Rich, moist, shaded grounds; thickets, &c.: frequent, Fl. May. Fr. Aug. 



Obs. There seems still to be some confusion in the synonymy of 

 this plant, in consequence of PURSH having mistaken it for the true 

 T. cernuum, of Linn, which is believed to be a Southern species, 

 first made known by CATESBT (T. Catesbaei, Ell. T. stylosum, Nutt.), 

 See Dr. BALDWIN'S note, in Florul. Cestr. p. 44. 



436. MEE V OL,A, Gronomu* j 



[Named aftor Medea, the Sorceress ; from its supposed virtues.] 

 Sepals and petals nearly alike, lance-oblong, revolute, deciduous. 

 Anthers linear-oblong, incumbent. Styles long, Jn^ar, recuyved- 

 diverging, stigmalic on the upper side, dark-purple, deciduous. 

 Berry globose, dark purple, 3-celled, few-seeded, lerennial: rhizoma. 

 oblong, fleshy, white ; stem simple, slender, loosely floccose-put 

 cent, with a verticil of 5 to 9 leaves near the middle, and another ot 

 3 at summit ; flowers pale greenish-yellow, subumbellate, nodding 



