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A. OFFICINALIS (Asparagus). Stem erect, very branching, herbaceous ; 

 leaves in clusters, pale green ; flowers small, axillary, yellowish green ; ber- 

 ries red. Cultivated for its young shoots, 2-4 feet high. June. 



Order LXXXVIL SMILAGE*: (Smilax Family}. 



Herbs, or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves reticulately-veined. 

 Flowers dioecious. Perianth free from the ovary, 6-parted, regu- 

 lar. Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the segments. Ovary 3- 

 celled. Fruit a globular, few or many-seeded berry. 



Smilax. Flowers dioecious or polygamous. Perianth campanu- 

 late, with 6 equal, spreading, deciduous segments. Stamens 6, attached 

 at base, with short filaments. Anthers linear, attached by the base. 

 Stigmas 3, nearly sessile. Berry globose, i-3-celled, i-seeded. 



1. S. ROTUNDIFOLIA (Greenbrier}. Stem climbing, prickly, woody ; 

 branches round or somewhat 4-angled ; leaves roundish-ovate, somewhat 

 cordate at base, 5-nerved, abruptly acuminate, on short petioles, pale be- 

 neath ; berries round, bluish, with a glaucous bloom. June. 



2. S. HERBACEA (Carrionflower). Stem herbaceous, unarmed, angular, 

 erect, recurved or climbing by tendrils ; leaves ovate, often roundish, 7-9- 

 veined, mucronate or acuminate, usually cordate at base, smooth, paler be- 

 neath ; flowers yellowish green, in dense umbels of 20-40, on long peduncles, 

 extremely fcetid ; berries dark blue, covered with a bloom. In moist thick- 

 ets, with a disgusting, carrion-like odor to the flowers. June. 



Order LXXXVIII. JUNCACE^E (Rush Family). 



Herbaceous plants, generally coarse and grass-like, often leaf- 

 less. Flowers usually greenish, small, dry, glumaceous, in cymose 

 clusters. Leaves fistular, or else flat, often channeled, sometimes 

 none. Perianth regular, in 2 series of 3 segments in each. Sta- 

 mens 6, or 3. Ovary 3-celled, or r-celled, because the placentas 

 do not reach the axis. Styles united into i. Stigmas 3. Capsule 

 3-valved. 



JUNCACE^E. 



( Capsule i-celled Luzula. 



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( Capsule 3-celled Juncus. 



I. Luzula. Perianth persistent. Stamens 6 Stigmas 3. Cap r 

 sule i-cellecl, 3-seeded. Leaves grass-like. 



L. CAMPESTRIS (Field Rush}. Leaves linear, hairy, especially on the 

 margin ; flowers in little spikes, the central one being nearly sessile ; sepals 

 acuminate, awned, longer than the obtuse capsule. In fields and open woods, 

 3'-io' high. May. 



