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margined: panicle ample and showy, 3-7 dm. long: sepals and petals 4-6 cm. 

 long: capsules 7-9 cm. long. Coastal sand-dunes. F. K. (Ber., Bah., Cuba, 

 Ant. ) SPANISH-DAGGER. 



2. Y. filamentosa L. Caudex short: leaves firm, 3-6 dm. long, stiffly erect or 

 spreading, with curly fibers: panicle-branches usually glabrous: capsules 5-6 

 cm. long. Pinelands. ADAM 'S-NEEDLE. 



FAMILY 5. SMILACACEAE. SMILAX FAMILY. 



Perennial armed or unarmed vines. Leaves alternate : blades several- 

 ribbed and netted-veined, commonly persistent: petiole usually bearing a 

 pair of appendages. Flowers dioecious, in axillary peduncled umbels. 

 Perianth regular, usually green, that of the staminate flowers larger than 

 that of the pistillate. Calyx of 3 sepals. Corolla of 3 petals. Androeeium 

 of 6 stamens: anthers erect. Gynoeciuin 3-carpellary. Stigmas 3, sessile, 

 sometimes elongate. Fruit a berry, with 3 bands of strengthening tissue 

 in the pulp connecting the base and apex. 



1. SMILAX [Tourn.] L. Leaf-blades leathery. Flowers not showy. 

 Berries red, blue, or black. Vigorous shoots often bear very large leaves. 

 GREEXBRIER. HORSEBRIER. SMILAX. 



Peduncles of the pistillate plant much longer than the accompanying petiole. 



1. 8. Bona-Sox. 

 Peduncles of the pistillate plant shorter than the petiole or 



barely surpassing it. 

 Berries globular or spheroidal : leaf-blades not spiny-toothed. 



Leaf-blades elliptic, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or linear. 2. 8. laurifolia. 



Leaf -blades of an ovate type, often lobed at the base. 3. 8. Beyricliii. 



Berries ovoid or oval : leaf-blades spiny-toothed. 4. 8. havanensis. 



1. S. Bona-Nox L. Leaf -blades broadly ovate to hastate or fiddle-shaped, 

 3-12 cm. long, sometimes spinulose-margined, truncate or cordate at the base: 

 pedicels 4-8 mm. long: sepals and petals deep-green, those of staminate 

 flowers 4-5 mm. long: berries 4-6 mm. in diameter. Everglades, pinelands 

 and hammocks. F. K. 



2. S. laurifolia L. Leaf-blades elliptic, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, or rarely 

 linear, 5-15 cm. long, acute at the apex, the base narrow: sepals and petals of 

 the staminate flowers 5-6 mm. long: berries ovoid or globose-ovoid, 4-6 mm. 

 long. Everglades and low hammocks. F. K. (Bah., Cuba.) 



3. S. Beyrichii Kunth. Leaf-blades ovate, broadly oblong, or pandurate, 2-10 

 cm. long, cuspidate or mucronate at the apex, entire, more or less auricled or 

 dilated at the base: pedicles 4-8 mm. long: sepals and petals of the staminate 

 flowers 4-5 mm. long: berries subglobose, 3-6 mm. in diameter. Hammocks 

 and coastal sand-dunes. F. K. (Bah.) 



4. S. havanensis Jacq. Leaf -blades oblong to orbicular-ovate, 2.5-5 cm. long, 

 spiny-toothed: pedicels 1-2 mm. long: sepals and petals of the staminate 

 flowers 1-2 mm. long: berries oval or ovoid, 4-6 mm. long. Pinelands. F. K. 

 (Bah., Cuba, Ant.) 



Order AMAKYLLIDALES. 



Perennial herbs or vines. Leaves with narrow or dilated blades. 

 Flowers perfect or dioecious, complete. Perianth of 3 sepals and 3 petals, 

 which are distinct or partially united. Androeeium of 3-6 stamens. 

 Gynoecium mostly 3-carpellary, the ovary partially or wholly inferior. 

 Fruit capsular or baccate. 



