SUPPLEMENT. 
THE FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. 
By Cuartes Lours Potuarp. 
CHAPTER IX. Continued. 
Family Smilaceae. Smilax Family. No one who has travelled 
in the Middle and Southern Atlantic states can have failed to observe 
Fic. 45.—The carrion-flower, Smilax herbacea. Originai. 
that pest of the Ledgerows and woods, the common greenbrier or eat 
brier (Smilax rotundifolia). This plant is the representative of a 
