296 HAEMODORACBAE (^BLOODWOBT FAMILY^ 



*- 1- 1- Peduncle 2-4 times the length of the petiole; leaves ample (7-12 cm. 

 long), thin or thinnish, green both sides; berries black; stem terete and 

 branchlets nearly so. 



8. S. hlspida Muhl. Eootstook cylindrical, elongated ; stem (climting high) 

 below densely beset inith long and weak blackish bristly prickles, the flowering 

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

 slightly rough-margined, membranaceous and deciduous; peduncles 2-5 cm 

 long ; perianth-divisions lanceolate, almost 6 mm. long. — Moist thickets, Ct. to 

 Va., w. to Ont., Minn., Kan., and Tex. June. 



9. S. pseiido-china L. Bootstock tuberous; stems and branches 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 (5-7 cm. long) . -f- Dry or sandy soil, N. J. to Fla., w. to s. Ind. 

 and Kan. July. 



* * Leaves varying from oblong -lanceolate to linear, narrowed at base into u, 

 short petiole, Z-b-nerved, shining above, paler or glaucous beneath, many 

 without tendrils; peduncles short, seldom exceeding the petioles, terete; 

 the umbels sometimes panicled ; branches terete, unarmed. 



10. S. lanceolata L. Leaves thinnish, rather deciduous, ovate-lanceolate or 

 lance-oblong ; stigmas 3 ; berries dull red. — Kich woods and margins of swamps, 

 Va. to Fla., w. to Ark. and Tex. June. 



(/^ 11. S. laurifblia L. Leaves thick and coriaceous, evergreen, varying from 

 oblong-lanceolate to linear (6-12 cm. long); stigmas solitary and ovary 1-celled; 

 berries black when ripe, 1-seeded, maturing in the second year. — Pine-barrens, 

 N. J. to Fla., w. to Ark., and Tex. July, Aug. 



HAEMODORACBAE (Bloodwoet Family) 



Perennial stoloniferous herbs with fibrous roots, equitant leaves, and perfect 

 3-C-androus regular woolly flowers; the tube of the O-lobed perianth coherent 

 with the whole surface, or with merely the lower part, of the S-celled ovary.— 

 Anthers introrse. Capsule crowned or inclosed by the persistent perianth, 

 3-celled, looulicidal, 3-many-seeded. A small family ; chiefly of the southern 

 hemisphere. Oiirs with dense compound cymes of dingy yellow flowers. 



1. Lachnanthes. Stamens 8. Ovary inferior. 



2. Lophiola. Stamens 6. Ovary nearly free. 



1. LACHNAnTHES Ell. Red-root 



Perianth 6-parted down to the adherent ovary. Stamens opposite the 3 largei 

 or inner divisions ; filaments long, exserted ; anthers soon curved or coiled, 

 attached near the base. Style thread-like, exserted, declined. Capsule globular. 

 Seeds few on each fleshy placenta, flat and rounded, fixed by the middle. — 

 Leaves clustered at the base and scattered on the stem, which is hairy at the 

 top and terminated by a dense compound cyme of dingy yellow and loosely 

 woolly flowers (whence the name, from Xdx>''7, xmol, and Sxflos, blossom). 



1. L. tinctbria (Walt.) Ell. Erect, 3-10 dm. high. {Gyrotheca Salisb.) — 

 Sandy swamps, near the coast. Cape Cod, Mass., R. I., and N. J. to Fla. July- 

 Sept. 



8. LOPHtOLA Ker. 



Divisions of the perianth nearly equal, spreading, longer than the 6 stamens, 

 which are inserted at their base. Anthers fixed by the base. Capsule ovoid, 

 free from the perianth except at the base, pointed with the awl-shaped style, 

 which finally splits into 3 divisions, one terminating each valve. Seeds numer- 

 ous, oblong, ribbed, anatropous. — Slender herb with linear and nearly smootl] 



