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5. (S. Walteri, Pursh.) — Stem dark green, angled, 10 to 15 

 feet long, having prickles only towards the bottom, running over 

 bushes and up small trees in branch swamps of the Lower Dis- 

 trict. Leaves deciduous, ovate, heart-shaped, smooth, dark shin- 

 ing green above, paler beneath, terminating in a small, almost 

 prickly point, 3 to 4 inches long, 2 to 3 wide, and having 3 distinct 

 and 2 obscure nerves. The berries are scarlet and very con- 

 spicuous in Winter. This has a creeping root. 



6. (S. lanceolata, Linn.) — This and No. 5 are the only species 

 with red berries. But this has evergreen leaves, narrower than 

 in the preceding and acute at base. The branches, too, are not 

 angled, and the root is tuberous. I have not myself met with it, 

 and give it on the authority of others. 



7. (S. laurifolia, Linn.) — This is a showy species, and like 

 Nos. 6 and 8, has evergreen leaves. It runs to a great length over 

 bushes and up lofty trees, the lower part only being prickly. The 

 leaves are thick and shining, lance-shaped or oblong. The 

 general fruit-stalk is equal to the leaf -stalk, 1/6 to 1/4 inch long. 

 Berries black. This seems confined to wet places in the Lower 

 District. 



8. (S. auriculata, Walt.) — Similar to No. 7, slightly or not at 

 all prickly, growing over small shrubs on the coast, flowers fra- 

 grant. The leaves are perennial, 1 to 2 inches long, narrowly 

 ovate, 3 to 5 nerved, with conspicuous cross veins, especially 

 beneath, terminated by an abrupt almost prickly point. Com- 

 mon fruit-stalk rather shorter than the leaf-stem. Berries black. 



Rattan. Supple Jack. (Berchemia volubilis, DC.) — A very 

 tough flexible vine running up trees. The leaves are alternate, 

 1 to 2 inches long, ovate, dark green, very smooth, not toothed, 

 having prominent parallel unbranched straight veins running 

 obliquely from the midrib to the margin. The berry is dark 

 purple, about *4 mcn long, with a thin coat and a hard smooth 

 nut. Grows from Virginia southward through our Lower Dis- 

 trict. 



(Sageretia Michauxii, Brogn.) — Grows upon the sandy soil of 

 the coast, 6 to 18 feet long, with thorn-like spreading branches. 

 Leaves 1 inch long, ovate, opposite, smooth and shining, finely 

 toothed. Flowers very small, in loose clusters. The berry is 

 small and round, dark purple, and pleasantly acid. I have not 

 met with this, and have introduced it here on the authority of 

 Michaux. 



(Cocculus Carolinus, DC.) — This runs extensively over shrubs 

 and small trees on the borders of damp woods and streams, from 

 the coast to Lincoln. The leaves are 2 to 4 inches long, broadly 



