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5. Smilax pseudociiina L. Sp. PI. 1031. 1753. 
Whole plant glabrous, rootstock usually with large tubers; stem ter- 
ete, the lower portion covered with straight needle-shaped prickles, the 
upper portion and the angled branches unarmed; leaves firm, becoming- 
leathery, green on both sides or glaucous beneath, ovate, often narrowed 
at the middle or lobed below, 7 — 9-nerved, 2 — 5 inches long, 1 — 3 wide, 
margins sometimes denticulate, apex acute or cuspidate, base rounded or 
cordate; peduncles fiattened, 1 — 3 inches long; umbels 12 — 40-fiowered; 
pedicels 3 — 4 lines long; stamens 6 — 10; berries black, 8 — 16, 2 — 3 lines 
in diameter, 1 — 3-seeded. The type locality is: ''Habitat in Virginia, 
Jamaica.” 
This species is said to occur in dry soil in thickets from Marland to 
Nebraska, south to Florida, Alabama and Texas, blooming from March 
until August. The known Iowa localities are Delaware and Cerro Gordo 
counties, reported by Professor Shimek. 
Shimek, B. Report of the Iowa State Horticultural Society, 1903, Vol. 38, 
p. 461, 1904 ; Notes on Some Iowa Plants, p. 1, 1904. 
6. AMARYLLIDACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2: 328. 1836. 
Amaryllis Family. 
Perennial herbs, with bulbs or rqotstocks, leafy or scapose stems, 
usually narrow entire leaves, and perfect, more or less regular, fiowers. 
Perianth 6-lobed or 6-parted, distinct or united below into a tube which 
is adnate to the ovary. Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the perianth- 
segments or in the throat of the perianth opposite the lobes. Anthers 
versatile or basifixed, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary wholly 
or partly inferior, 3-celled. Style slender, entire, lobed, or divided into 
3 stigmas. Ovules 1 to many. Fruit a capsule, rarely fieshy. Seeds 
black. Represented in our fiora by the genus Hypoxis. 
1. HYPOXIS L. Syst. Ed. 10, 2: 986. 1759. 
Low, usually villous herbs, with a grass-like aspect, from corms or 
rootstocks, having narrow leaves, and a few comparatively small fiowers^ 
on slender scapes. Perianth 6-parted to the summit of the ovary, the 
segments equal or subequal, withering-persistent, the outer ones green- 
ish below, the stamens inserted at their bases. Anthers erect. Ovary 
3-celled; style short; stigmas 3, erect; ovules many, arranged in two 
lows in each cell. 
