BLACK OR DARE PURPLE 167 



HALBERD-LEAVED SMILAX 

 Smilas: tamnifolia Smilax Family 



Fruit. — The fruit is a berry similar to that 

 of the Carrion Flower, but smaller. The clusters 

 are rather small and the peduncles shorter than 

 in preceding species. The berry is from one- to 

 three-seeded. 



Leaves, — The leaves are broad at the base and 

 narrow decidedly about the middle of the leaf, 

 making the base ahnost lobed. They are thick, 

 leathery, and green on both sides. 



This, like several other smilax species, has its 

 northern range in dry or sandy portions of New 

 Jersey. It extends south to South Carolina and 

 Tennessee. It is unarmed, and usually has circu- 

 lar stems and branches. 



GLAUCOUS-LEAVED GREENBRIER 

 FALSE SARSAPARILLA 



Smilax glauca Smilax Family 



Fruit. — The globose black berries grow in um- 

 bels on flattened peduncles, which are rarely twice 

 the length of the petioles. The umbels spring 



