LILY FAMILY. 445 
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 (L.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. P].2:1030. 1753. Low BAMBOO-BRIER. 
Smilax caduca L. Sp. Pl. 2:1030. 1753. Not Ell. 
S. quadrangulata Willd. Sp. P1.4:775. 1806. 
5 m4 Sk.2:700. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 520. Chap. F 1.477. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
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. Pl. 2:1031. 1753. FALSE CHINA-ROOT. 
Ell. Sk.2:700. Gray, Man. ed.6, 521. Chap. Fl. 475. 
Alleghenian, Carolinian, and Louisianian 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. Jee 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. Pl. 2:1030. 1753. BAMBOO-BRIER. 
Smilax hastata Willd. Sp. Pl. 4:782. 1806. 
S. tamnoides 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. F1.475. 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. Sanp BAMBOO-BRIER. 
Smilax ovata Fll. Sk. 2:698. 1821-24. Not Pursh. 
S. beyrichit Kunth, Enum. 5:207. 1850. 
Ell. 1, cv. Chap. FI. 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. 
