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SMILACE.E. (SMILAX FAMILY.) 



northward. March and April. — Stems 6'- 12' high. Leaves 1'- 3' long. Pet- 

 als 10"- 15" long. 



2. T. discolor, Wray ? Rootstock tuberous, vertical ; stem stout, solitary ; 

 leaves sessile, varying from ovate-laneeolate to broadly ovate, tapering from near 

 the base to the apex, 3- 7 -nerved, variegated above with green and brown or 

 dark purple ; petals erect, oblong, obtuse, narrowed below, dark purple varying 

 into green, rather longer than the lanceolate, spreading sepals ; fdaments very 

 short, purple. — Rich woods, in the middle and lower districts, Florida to South 

 Carolina. Feb. and. March. — Stem 6'- 12' high. Leaves 3' - 5' long. Petals 

 l£'-2' long. 



* * Flower on an erect or declining peduncle. 



3. T. pusillum, Michx. Stem slender; leaves sessile, lanceolate or ob- 

 long, obtuse, 3-nerved ; peduncle erect, shorter than the spreading flower ; petals 

 lanceolate, pale flesh-color, acutish, one third longer than the lanceolate obtuse 

 sepals ; filaments slender, as long as the anthers ; stigmas united below into a 

 slender style, longer than the filaments. — Pine barrens in the low country of 

 Carolina, Michaux. North Carolina, Curtis. — Stem G'- 8' high. Leaves l£'- 

 2' long. Flower 8"- 10" long. 



4. T. erectum, L. Stem solitary ; leaves sessile, broadly rhomboidal, 

 abruptly acuminate, acute at the base ; peduncles longer than the spreading 

 flowers (l£'-3' long), at length declined; petals oval or oblong, obtuse or 

 acutish, dark-ptirple, rather longer than the lanceolate-ovate acute sepals; fila- 

 ments shorter than the anthers, or the short and distinct stigmas. (T. rhomboi- 

 deum, Michx.) — Varies with smaller white or yellowish flowers. — Shady woods, 

 on tho mountains of North Carolina, and northward. May. — Stem 1° high. 

 Leaves 3'- 5' long, and of the same width. Flowers 1'- 1 £' long, fetid. 



5. T. grandiflorum, Salisb. Stem solitary ; leaves rhombic-ovate, 

 abruptly acuminate, nearly sessile ; peduncle longer than the erect-spreading 

 flower, erect or slightly declined ; petals obovate, white, much longer and 

 broader than the lanceolate acutish sepals ; filaments slender, shorter than the 

 anthers, nearly equalling the short recurved stigmas. — Shady woods on the 

 mountains of Carolina, Elliott, and northward. May. — Stem l°-l£° high. 

 Leaves 3'- 5' long. Petals 2' long, changing to rose-color. 



6. T. erythrocarpum, Michx. Stem solitary ; leaves ovate, long- 

 seuminate, rounded at the base, short-petioled j peduncle (l'-2' long) erect, 

 longer than the widely-spreading flower ; petals oblong, acutish, wavy, much 

 longer than the lanceolate sepals, white, striped with purple at the base ; stigmas 

 Blender, longer than the anthers; berry red. — Rich shady woods in the upper 

 districts, Georgia, and northward. April and May. — Stem 1° high. Leaves 

 3' -5' long. Flowers 9"- 12" long. 



# # * Flower on a recurved peduncle. 



7. T. cernuum, L. Stems 2 -:\ together; leaves broadly rhomboidal, 



abruptly acuminate, short-petioled ; peduncle mostly shorter than the small 

 flower; petals white, oblong-ovate, acute, wavy, recurved, rather longer than 



