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•1- Peduncles shorter or scarcely hnger than the petioles, flattened ; leaves ihickish, 

 inclining to be evergreen, at least southward, green both sides. 



1. S. WS.lteri, Pursh. Stem low, somewhat angled, prickly near the 

 hase or unarmed; leaves ovate and somewhat heart-shaped (8' -4' long); berries 

 coral-red. (B. China, Walt.) — New Jersey, and southward. July. 



2. S. rotundifblia:, L. (Common Greenbkiek.) Stem armed with 

 scattered prickles, as well as the terete branches ; branchlets more or less 4- 

 angular ; leaves ovate or round-ovate, often broader than long, slightly heart- 

 shaped, abruptly short-pointed (2' -3' long) ; bemies blite-black, with a bloom. 

 {S. cadiica, L,, is only a more deciduous and thin-leaved form. ) ^^ Moist thick- 

 ets : common, especially southward. June, July. — Plant yellowish-green, often 

 high-climbing. — Passes into var. quadbanqolIkis, with the branches, and 

 especially the branchlets, 4-angular, often square. (S. quadrangularis, MuM.) ttt 

 Penn. to Illinois, and southward. 



1- -1- Peduncles longer than, but seldom twice the length of the petiole, flattened: leaves 

 tardily deciduous or partly persistent : berries black, with a bloom. 



3. S. glatica, Walt. Terete branches and somewhat 4-angular branchlets 

 armed with scattered stout prickles, or naked ; leaves ovate, rarely subcordate, 

 glaucous beneath and sometimes also above, as well as the branchlets when young 

 (about 2' long), abruptly mucronate, the edges smooth and naked. (S, Sarsa- 

 parilla, L., in part, but not as to the syn. of Bauhin, whence the name was taken, 

 (S. caduca, Willd. S. spinulbsa, Smith? Torr.fl.) — Dry thickets, S. New York 

 to Kentucky and southward. July. 



4. S. tamnoldes, L. Branches and the angular (often square) branch- 

 lets sparsely armed with short rigid prickles ; leaves varying from round-heart- 

 shaped and slightly contracted above the dilated base to fiddle-shaped and hal- 

 berd-shaped or 3-lobed, green and shining both sides, cuspidate-pointed, the margins 

 often somewhat bristly-ciliate or spinulose. (S. Bona-nox, L., S. hasfeta Willd., 

 S. panduiata, Pursh, &c., are all forms of this.) — Thickets, New Jersey to 

 Illinois, and (chiefly) southward. July. 



•<- 1- -1- Peduncles 2-4 times the Iftigth of the petiole : leaves; ample (3' - 5' long), 

 thin or thinnish, green both sides : berries black : stem terete and branchlets nearly sp, 



5. S. hispida, Muhl. Eootstock cylindrical, elongated ; steni (climbing 

 high) below densely beset with long and weak blackish bristly prickles, the powering 

 branchlets mostly naked ; leaves ovate and the larger heart-shaped, pointed^ 

 slightly rough-margined, membranaceous an,d deciduous. — Moist thickets, Penn. 

 and W. New York to Michigan. June. — Peduncles 1|' -2' long. Sepals lan- 

 ceolate, almost 3" long. 



6. S. Ps9u.d0-CbJ.na, L. Eootstock tuiberous; stems and bravehes unarmed, 

 or with very few weak prickles ; leaves ovate-heart-shaped, or on the branchlets 

 ovate-oblong, cuspidate-pointed, often rough-ciliate, becoming firm in texture ; 

 peduncles flat (2'-3' long). — Dry or sandy soil. New Jersey to Kentucky, and 

 southward. July. 



« » Leaves varying fr<^ oblong-lanceciate to linear, narrowed at- the base into a short 

 petiole, 3 — 5-nerved, shining above, paler or glaucous beneath, many of them 



