444 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



iugton County, Yellowpine. Clarke County, Thomasville. Baldwin and Mobile 

 counties. Flowers yellow. June to August; common. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



STEMONACEAE. 



CROOMIA Torr. ; Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. A. 1 : 663. 1840. 



Two species, perennial. Southern Japan, southeastern North America. 

 Croomia pauctflora Torr. ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1 : 663. 1840. CROOMIA. 



Cissamnelos pautiflora Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7 : 11. 1834. ( f ) 



Chap. Fl. 480. 



Louisianian area. Georgia, middle Florida. 



ALABAMA: Lower hills. Shaded banks. Tuscaloosn County (E. A. Smith). 

 Flowers maroon purple. March, April ; local, rare. 



Type locality : "Aspalaga, middle Florida on the Apalnchicola River under the 

 shade of Torreya taxifolia, Mr. Croom! Dr. Chapman!" 



Herb. Mohr. 



SMILACEAE. Smilax Family. 



SMIL AX L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1028. 1753. GREENBRIER. ' 



About 200 species. Tropical and warmer temperate America; few in Japan. 

 North America, 17. Perennials ; mostly shrubby climbers. 



Smilax herbacea L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1030. 1753. CARRIOX FLOWER. 



Smilax pulverulenta Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 238. 1803. 



Coprosmanthns herbaceus Kunth, Enum. 5 : 265. 1850. 



Smilax peduncularis Muhl. ; Willd. Sp. PI. 4 : 786. 1806. 



Coprosmanthus peduncularis Kunth, Enum. 5 : 264. 1850. 



Ell. Sk. 2:702. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 520. Chap. Fl. 477. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:432. 



JAPAN. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, and Sas- 

 katchewan; New England to Minnesota and Nebraska; Ohio Valley to Missouri; 

 from New York south to Tennessee and western Louisiana (Hale), eastern Texas, and 

 Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dry copses. Winston County, Colliers Creek (T. 

 M. Peters). Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Flowers green, ill-scented. May; not 

 common. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia, Marylandia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Smilax ecirrhata (Engelm.) Wats, in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 520. 1890. 



CARRION FLOWER. 



Coprosmanthus herbacea var. ecirrhata Engelm. ; Kunth. Enum. 5 : 266. 1850. 



Smilax herbacea var. ecirrhata Gray ; DC. Monogr. Phan. 1 : 52. 1878. 



S. herbacea Ell. Sk. 2 : 702. 1821-24. 



Coprosmanthua hei-baceus Kunth, Enum. 5 : 264. 1850. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 520. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 504. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Virginia west to Michigan and Missouri, south 

 to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Lower hills. Shady copses, rich woods. Lee 

 County, Auburn (F. S. Earle). Cullman County. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). 

 April, May. Flowers with odor of carrion. Not infrequent. 



Type locality not separately given. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Smilax glauca Walt. Fl. Car. 245. 1788. SARSAPARILLA. GLAUCOUS GREENBRIER. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 697. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 520. Chap. Fl. 476. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 432. 



MEXICO. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Southern New England to P'lorida, west to 

 Texas, Arkansas, and southern Missouri. 



1 Thomas Morong, The Smilaceae of North and Central America, Bull. Torr. Club, 

 vol. 21, pp. 419 to 443. 1894. 



