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ARBORETUM AND FRUT1CUTUM. 



ART III. 



native of North and South America. 

 in Julv and August. 



Introduced before 1664, and flowering 



Description, $c. Stems shrubby, long, slender, and climbing. Roots di- 

 vided into several long slender branches, which are somewhat thicker than a 

 goose-quill, straight, brown on their exterior, but 



white internally, and from 3 ft. to 4 ft. long. Leaves 



2381. 



alternate and pointed, with long tendrils at the base. 

 Flowers lateral, usually three or four together on one | 

 common peduncle. A native of Peru, Brazil, Mexico, 

 and Virginia. It is included in Evelyn's Kalendar,as 

 having been in cultivation before 1664; but, according 

 to Plukenet, it was first brought to England by Mr. 

 Foster, in 1691. Caspar Bauhin informs us that the 

 root was introduced into Spain from Mexico, as a 

 medicine, in 1573; but Monarda asserts that it was 

 known there twenty or thirty years previously. Sar- 

 saparilla, on its first introduction, was considered as a 

 specific against numerous disorders ; but it has since 

 gradually fallen into disuse. It is, however, still occa- 

 sionally employed in rheumatic complaints, scrofula, 

 and all cutaneous diseases, "where an acrimony of the fluids prevails." The 

 plant is at Messrs. Loddiges's, and in the Botanic Garden, Twickenham ; 

 but it does not grow so freely as S. aspera, and is somewhat tender. 



JL 5. S. uasta v ta Willd. The spear-shaped Smilax. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 782. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 249.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Hynonymes. S. B6na n6x Mica*. Fl. Amer., 2. p. 237., Walt. Fl. Car., 245. j S. aspera var. Lam. 



Enci/c, 6. p. 465. 

 Engraving. Pluk. Aim., t. 111. f. 3. 



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 Spec. Char. Stem subarmed. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate ; 

 auriculate, or spear-shaped, at the base; ciliated or prickly 

 on the margin; 3 — 5 nerves. Berries round. (Willd.) 

 A native of the sea coast of Carolina and Florida. Intro- 

 duced in 1820. 

 Var id i). 



A. S. h. 2 lanceoldta Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., i. p. 249. ; 

 S. lanceolata Walt. Fl. Car., 245. ; ? S. longifolia 

 Wat*. Bend. Brit.,t. 110.; and our fig. 2385. ; S. 

 Watsoni Sweet ; has the leaves longer and narrower 

 than the species, and not spear-shaped at the 

 base. 



Description, Sec. A weak climbing shrub, with subangular, 

 green, smooth branches, with horizontal, acute, short spines. 

 Leaves alternate, glabrous, and of the same colour on both 

 sides ; and with long spiral tendrils. There are plants at 

 Messrs. Loddiges's. 



L (>. S. Walte'r// Pursh. Walter's Smilax. 



:',,,n Punt) PI Al.KT. S<-|)t., i. p S40, 



8 ( blna Walt Ft. Car., p. 'l\'.>. 



Spec, Char., $)C. Stem prickly. Leaves ovate-cordate, smooth, 3-nerved. 

 Berries acuminate;. ( l'm:.h.) A native of the low sandy parts of Virginia 

 and Carolina, on the river sides. It is rather ornamental, from the shape 

 of it- leaves, and its having red berries. It was supposed by Walter to be 

 S. China ; but it differs in its leaves having only 3 nerves, and in some other 

 particulars. It is rather tender. There are plants in the Horticultural 



■ iety's Garden, against the conservative wall. 



