SMILAX SMILACE/# 637 
solitary, leafy at base: leaves linear, 2-6 inches long, 1-2 lines wide: 
spathes 1-4-flowered, its bracts broad, very unequal, the outer 2-3 inches 
long, long-acuminate, inner one about an inch long, acute or short-acumin- 
ate, scarious-margined : flowers bright reddish-purple to white: segments 
of the perianth 6-10 lines long, cuneate-oblong, abruptly acute and often 
shortly acuminate: filaments broad at base, 3-6 lines long, much shorter 
than the style ; anthers 2 lines long: capsule obovoid, 2-3 lines high. 
Common in moist places in the interior, California to Brit. Columbia. 
OrpER XCV SMILACEA Vent. Tabl. ii, 146. (1799) 
Shrubby or herbaceous climbing plants with alternate net- 
veined petioled leaves that develop stipular persistent tendrils 
by which the stem is secured to shrubs, and small dicecious 
flowers in axillary umbels. Perianth-segments 6, similar. 
Stamens mostly 6, distinct; filaments ligulate; anthers attached 
by the base, 2-celled, introrse. Ovary 3-celled, the cells oppo- 
site the inner segments of the perianth. Ovules 1 or 2 in each — 
cell, orthotropous, suspended. Style very short or none: stig- 
mas 1-3. Fruita globose berry containing 1-6 seeds. Embryo 
small, in copious horny albumen. 
1 SMILAX L. Sp. 1028. 
Climbing plants with broad leaves and small greenish flowers in 
axillary umbels. Rootsock usually very large and tuberous. 
Flowers regular, perianth-segments distinct, deciduous, with the 
anthers inserted on their bases. Staminate flowers without an 
ovary: the pistillate usually with 1-6 abortive stamens. Embryo 
lying under a tubercle at the upper end of the seed. 
S. Californieca Gray in Herb.. Watson Bot. Cal. ii, 186. Glabrous: 
stems woody, 4-20 feet long, terete or somewhat angled, naked or covered 
with weak spreading prickles: leaves broadly ovate, abruptly acute, some- 
what cordate at base, 1144-4 inches long, thin and deciduous, roughish on 
the margins, on petioles about an inch long peduncles slender, flat, 2-3 
times longer than the petioles: flowers 20 or less: segments of the perianth 
4-9, green narrowly oblong, 5 lines long: fruit black, 2 lines in diameter. 
In thickets along streams, southern Oregon and northern California. 
OrpeR XCVI LILIACEA® Adans. Fam. Pl. 42. (1763) 
Scapose or leafy-stemmed plants from bulbs or rarely from 
rootstocks with various leaves and regular mostly perfect usu- 
ally showy flowers mostly in umbels or racemes. FVerianth 
parted into 6 distinct or nearly distinct segments, or these 
more or less united into a tube, inferior or partly superior. 
Stamens 6, hypogynous or borne on the perianth at the base of 
its segments: anthers 2-celled, mostly introrse. Ovary 3-celled, 
with few or numerous anatropous or amphitropous ovules in 
‘each cell. Style united: stigma 3-lobed or capitate. Fruit a 
loculicidal or septicidal capsule. Seeds various, winged or 
wingless. Hmbryo in copious albumen. 
I Flowers with scarious bracts, a persistent perianth with 
