260 HARPER 



SMILACACE^. 

 SMILAX L., Sp. PI. 1028. 1753. 

 S. pumila Walt., Fl. Car. 244. 1788. 



Very elastic in habitat, growing in dry pine-barrens, sand- 

 hills, hammocks, bluffs, etc. bulloch, emanuel, tattnall, 



MONTGOMERY, DODGE, COFFEE, WILCOX, IRWIN, BERRIEN 



(1688), colquitt. Flowers in September, and probably at 



other times. Pretty widely distributed in South Georgia, 



but never seen more than a mile or two above the fall-line 

 South Carolina to central Florida and Texas, very nearly 



confined to the coastal plain. 

 S. auriculata Walt., Fl. Car. 245. 1788; Chapm., Fl. 476. i860. 

 S. Beyrichii Kunth, Enum. 5: 207. 1850; Morong, Bull. Torrey 



Club 21 :43c- 1894. 

 Montgomery: Sand-hills of Little Ocmulgee River opposite 



Lumber City, Sept. 10, 1903. Also in the hammock of 



the Altamaha River in Mcintosh County, and on St. Simon's. 



Island, Glynn County. 

 North Carolina to Florida and Mississippi, mostly near the 



coast. Also in the Bahamas {Northrop). See Nash, Bull. 



Torrey Club 22 : 144. 1895 ; Mohr, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 6:: 



445. 1901. 

 S. laurifolia L., Sp. PI. 1030. 1753. Bamboo Vine. 



In swamps, especially non-alluvial creek-swamps, screven,. 



BULLOCH, {955) TATTNALL, MONTGOMERY, DODGE, APPLING,. 



coffee, wilcox, irwin, colquitt, decatur. Pretty com- 

 mon throughout South Georgia, except perhaps in the 

 lime-sink region and near the coast. 



New Jersey to South Florida, Arkansas, and Louisiana, in the- 

 coastal plain. Also in East Tennessee (Gattinger). 



Leaf-anatomy described by Kearney, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 5 :486. /. 86. 1901. 

 S. Walteri Pursh, Fl. 249. 18 14. Sarsaparilla. 



In Gum Swamp Creek near McRae, July 3, 1903. More com- 

 mon in the upper third of the coastal plain. 



New Jersey to northern Florida, Tennessee (?), and Louisiana,, 

 in the coastal plain. 



