NOTES ON OUR LOCAL PLANTS II3 



Phyllantherum recurvatum (Beck). 



Trillium recurvatum Beck, A. Jr. Sci. 2, p. 178, (1826). 



More common than the preceding, often growing with it. 

 Lake Maxinkuckee, (Clarke); Nos. 429, 1952, 1893, 814 U. N. D. 

 Herb., Notre Dame, Ind. The last has the parts of the flower 

 in 4's. Nos. 1996, 3254, Notre Dame collected by Powers. No. 

 7410 Notre Dame collected by W. Johnson. The plant has been 

 found throughout the region and is by far the commonest of all. 

 A plant with the parts in 4's was also collected by me near Lapaz 

 Junction. 



Family 34. SMILACEAE Ventenat. Tab. Reg. Veg. p. 146, 

 (1799); also R. Brown. Prodr., p. 299, (1810); Dumortier, Com. 

 Bot. p. 67, (1823); Bartling, Ord. Nat. PI. p. 52, (1830); Lindley, 

 Int. Nat. Syst. p. 277, (1830); Nat. Syst. ed. 2, p. 359, (1836). 



NEMEXIA Rafinesque, Neogenyton, p. 3, (1825). 

 Smilax Linn., Sp. PI. p. 1028 (in part). Coprosmanihus 

 Kunth, Enum. 5, p. 263, (1850). 



Nemexia pulverulenta (Michx.) Small, Fl. SE. U. S., p. 281, 



(1903)- 



Smilax pulverulenta Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2, p. 238, (1803). 



Lake Maxinkuckee (Clarke) ; [Laporte Co.] Deam) ; [Marshall 

 Co.] (Deam); Nos. 9275, 9710, 1858, 9313, 2987, Notre D?me, 

 Ind. (The last collected by W. Johnson). No. 9345 Birchim, 

 Ind. [Laporte Co.]; No. 11 214 Notre Dame. 



Nemexia ecirrhata (Engelm.) Small 1. c. p. 280. 



Smilax echirrhata S. Watson. Gray's Man. Ed. 6, p. 520, 

 (1890). Coprosmanthus herbaceus var. ecirrhaius Kunth, Enum. 

 5, p. 266, (1850). 



N. D. U. Herb. Nos. 1993, 1854 Notre Dame, Ind. (Powers); 

 No. 9223 Birchim, Ind. [Laporte Co.]; No. 9518 Notre Dame, Ind. 



SMILAX Dioscorides 4, 142, Theophrastus, i, 10; 3, 18; 

 Pliny 16, 35, and of the older authors with scarcely any exception. 

 Smilax Tour. Els. Bot. p. 512, (1694); I. R. H. p. 654, (1700); 

 Linn. Syst., (1835); Hort. Cliff, p. 458, (1737); Gen. PI. p. 305, 

 (1737); P- 428, (1742); p. 455. (1754); Sp. PI. p. 1028, (1753)- 



Smilax rotundifolia Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1030, (1753). 



Smilax caduca Linn. 1. c. Smilax quadrangularis Willd. Sp. 

 PI. 4, p. 775, (1806). . . . . " 



