778 SMILACE^. (SMILAX FAMILY.) 



TAMriJS, L. Black Bryony. 



Staminale flowers. Perigonium campanulate, six-parted to middle. 

 tStamens 6, inserted at bottom of tube, with thread-like filaments. 

 Anthers ovate-globular, twin-celled. Pistillate floiccrs. Ovary top- 

 shajDed, capped by the persistent limb; filaments abortive; cells 2- 

 ovuled; style 3-fid, stigmas dilated, bifid, reflexed. Berry globular, 

 fleshy, covered by the tube of the perigonium — Climbing, twining 

 herbs, with a long, fleshy, tuberous root. 



T. eommiiiiij!!, L. Black Bryony. 71 Leaves cordate, sometimes 

 obscurely 3-lobed, acuminate, .03 to .06 long and broad. Racemes 

 axillary ; the staminate dense, many-flowered, longer than leaves, flowers 

 long-pedicellcd ; the 2>istillate short, few-flowered, flowers s-hort-pedi- 

 celled; berries globular, .008 in diameter — May — Shrubby and shady 

 places ; common to middle and subalpine regions. 



Var. Cretica, Boiss. Leaves more or less 3-lobecl, the middle 

 lobe long-tapering - Hardly a variety, much less a species {T. 

 Cretica, L.) 



Order CX. !i»MIL.ACEiE. (Smilax Family.) 



S/iru7)hy {o?' rarely he7-'l)aceous) 2ylcints^ cUmhing or su})- 

 'ported hy a ixiir of tendrils on the jpetiole of the ribbed or 

 neited-veinedy simple leaves, with dimcious {or rarely perfect) 

 small floioers, the iierigonium corolla-lihe, greenish^ parted 

 into 6, deciduous divisions, free from the ovary ; stamens 6 

 [or more or less), vnth introrse, %celled anthers, appearing 

 Lohen opened \-eelled\ ovary loith 3 cells, free, ovules 1-2 in 

 each cell, suspjended from the inner and upper angle, or- 

 thotropous ; style 0, stigrnas Z, spreading, sessile — Anthers 

 fixed by base. Eerrj globular, 6-1-seeded. Seeds elliptical 

 or £^lobnlav, witli thin testa, and small embryo in the midst 

 of copious, liurny albumen. 



ISIHILAX, L. Green Brier. Cat Brier. Uaslmliat-eJ-Batur. 



Staminate flowc%s. Stamens inserted at bottom of perigonium, 

 equal. Pistillate floicers. Stamens abortive, deciduous. Ovary ellip- 

 tical, with 3 cells and 1-2 ovules in each, pendulous from tip of cell: 

 style 0; stigmas 3, distinct, papillose, recurved, deciduous. Berry 

 globular, with 1-3, globular seeds — Evergreen, climbing shrubs, ours 

 prickly, with alternate leaves usually in two rows, umbelled flowers, 

 the umbels solitary in the axils or racemcd. 



S. aspera, L. 5 Glabrous; branches angled, flexuous, prickly. 

 Leaves leathery, hastate to cordate-ovate, .05 to .1 long, prickly at 

 margin and midrib of lower surface ; tendrils inserted above the base of 

 the petiole. Umbels sessile, many-flowered, in leafless, axillary and 

 terminal racemes; berries crimson — Common every where in hedges and 

 thickets from coast to middle mountain zones and interior plains. 



Var. Iflauretaiiica, Boiss. Stem less prickly. Leaves unarmed 

 or less prickly, more rounded — Common. 



