Smilax herbacea L.

FLORA OF NEW JERSEY.
LEOIT.
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
N. L. Brltton.
	
I Smilax kirbacea L. Determined by Bernice M. Spèese College oi Wiftiart and Mâry	
	
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BOTANICAL
À Suggestion Concerning Smilax herbacea, L,
The ablest botanists 'have |itherto failed to deal conclusively
with our common herbaceous 'Smilax (carrion flower). \ Wood
atcêpts three.species, S. herbacé^ L., S.peduncularis, Muiil., and
5. làdoneurm, Hook. , Gray includes tjiese all under 5. mrbacea,
making' Mtihïéii^erg’s fiant barely a variety, and Hdbker’s a
mere form. Chapman agrees with \\^di«^ccepting/Muhlen-
berg's species as a good òaél Alphonse De Caïtdolle distributes
the Linnaean * species, as found in -North America, into five
varieties including thè type, two of them equivalent to 5. pedun-
cularis and S. lasioneuroti.
Ignoring such fluctuating characters as shape of leaf, degree
of pubescence and length of peduncle, I find the following four
apparent varieties :
a, Peduncles about three, in the axils of bracts below the
leaves, which are all in a cluster afeove, at the^ummjj: of the low
stem. ^Specimens in* the Columbia T!SReg^erbariumf. V
K Pedunbl'es aboy t six, in the axils of the lowermost'teaves ;
stem tall, leafy and ^ranching above. (Plant collected on^New
York Island.)
c.	Peduncles" about six, in leaf-axils nearly midway of the
plant ; leaves and branches above and below on the tall sterni
(Plant from J. F. James,^bxford, O.)
d.	Peduncles ‘-mimerons, commonly produced from the same
axils with the, bransjjes, scattered midway and upward on ttìe
tall and leafy Stem. ' (PfeftpjE from W. A. Kellerman, Manha^an,
Kans., and specimens in JÈÜ C. Herb.)	....
'17a.^ à, the simplest form, .chiefly southern, the one specially
described by Chapman/equals var. ecirrkata, A. DC. Var. b is
much more developed* put the position of the inflorescence is not
altered. Var. c., however^ shows a decided change in this respect,
the new position being exactly analogous to that of the fructifi-
cation in Osmunda Ctaytoniana. In var. d. the species reaches
the acme of vigorous development, putting forth freely both re-
prodûctive and vegetative branches from the self-same axils.
The arrangement of thè forms here proposed, although some-
what promising, is still merely tentative, and botanists will confer a
special favor and help settle à sadly confused §p©«es, by infori
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BOTANICAL
'?S&ftoi't/
Annotation
SmiI ax herbacea L-
Det. by: J.Y. Reekie, 1985
The W.P. Fraser Herbarium
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon CSASIO
Smilax herbacea L. 4
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det R.L. Wilbur 2003*
Duke University Herbarium
the Catholic University of America
Washington, D. C.
Jote K. Mangaly
Smilax herbacea I*
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