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ALABAMA: From the Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain. Most frequent in the 

 Central and Coast Pine belt. Damp thickets, banks of streams. Lee County, 

 Auburn. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Washington County (Dr. Denny). Hale 

 County, Big Prairie Creek. Mobile and Baldwin counties. Frequent. Climbing 

 over bushes and small trees. Flowers in May; sweet-scented. Fruit in October 

 and November; black. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Smilax rotundifolia L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1030. 1753. Low BAMBOO-BRIER. 



Smilax caduca L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1030. 1753. Not Ell. 



S. quadranoulata Willd. Sp. PI. 4 : 775. 1806. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 700. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 520. Chap. Fl. 477. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:432. 



MEXICO, WEST INDIES, CENTRAL AMERICA. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New England, west to Minnesota, Colorado, 

 Arkansas, and Missouri, south to New Jersey, Virginia, and Tennessee, and along the 

 mountains to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Lower hills. Woods, damp places. Lee County, 

 Auburn (Baker $~ Earle). Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain, 1,800 feet. Winston 

 and Tuscaloosa counties. The form with four-angled stem (var. quadrangularis auct. ) 

 prevailing. April, May; not rare. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Canada. Kalm." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Smilax pseudo-china L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1031. 1753. FALSE CHINA-ROOT. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 700. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 521. Chap. Fl. 475. 



Alleghenian, Carolinian, and Louisiauian areas, District of Columbia and West 

 Virginia to Florida, west to Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Nebraska. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region. Metamorphic hills to the Coast Pine belt. Damp 

 thickets. Lee County, Auburn (Baker <$ Earle). Washington County, Suggsville 

 (Dr. Denny). Mobile County. Flowers, April; fruit, October. Berries, black ; not 

 frequent. 



Economic uses: The tuberous rhizoma is used in domestic medicine. 



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



Herb. Mohr. 



Smilax bona-nox L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1030. 1753. BAMBOO-BRIER. 



Smilax liastata Willd. Sp. PI. 4 : 782. 1806. 



S. tamiioides Gray, Man. 485. 1848. Not L. 



S. hederaefolia Kunth, Enum. 5 : 209. 1850. Not Mill. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 696. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 520. Chap. Fl. 475. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:432. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Southern New England to Florida, west to 

 Texas, Arkansas, sonthern Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas. 



ALABAMA: All over the State. Most frequent in the pine barren swamps of the 

 Coast Pine belt. Cherokee, Cullman, Montgomery, Clarke, Mobile, and Baldwin 

 counties. Flowers, April, May; fruit, October. Berries, black. Frequent. Shrub. 



Foliage in lower districts persistent; in low, damp situations, climbing high; the 

 old branches, with broad, flat spines, frequently scurfy from tufts of short, stellate 

 hairs. In dry, rocky soil, low, bushy, trailing on the ground, the leaves halberd or 

 fiddle shaped, their margin and midrib bristly. The various forms presented by 

 this highly variable species, described under various names, are inseparable, almost 

 insensibly blending. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Smilax auriculata Walt. Fl. Car. 245. 1788. SAND BAMBOO-BRIER. 



Smilax ovata Ell. Sk. 2 : 698. 1821-24. Not Pursh. 



S. beyricMi Kunth, Enum. 5 : 207. 1850. 



Ell. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 476. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina along the coast to Florida and Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Littoral region; in loose sand. Mobile County, foot of 

 Springhill, climbing trees 15 feet high. Baldwin County, on the sandy bay shore, 

 bushy, trailing. April, May; flowers fragrant; fruit matures .in October; black. 

 Not rare. 



Walter's description applies well to our plant, and agrees also perfectly with 

 Chapman's description ; for these reasons Walter's name is maintained. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



