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. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 6. Smilax hispida Muhl. Hispid Greenbrier. Bristly Sarsaparilla. Fig. 1313. Smilax hispida Muhl.; Torr. Fl. N. Y. 2: 302. 1843. Glabrous, stem terete below, and commonly thickly hispid with numerous slender straight prickles, the branches more or less angled; peti- oles 4"-9" long, tendril-bearing, rarely denticu- late; leaves thin, green on both side
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 6. Smilax hispida Muhl. Hispid Greenbrier. Bristly Sarsaparilla. Fig. 1313. Smilax hispida Muhl.; Torr. Fl. N. Y. 2: 302. 1843. Glabrous, stem terete below, and commonly thickly hispid with numerous slender straight prickles, the branches more or less angled; peti- oles 4"-9" long, tendril-bearing, rarely denticu- late; leaves thin, green on both sides, ovate, ab- ruptly acute and cuspidate at the apex, obtuse or subcordate at the base, 7-nerved, or the older ones sometimes with an additional pair of faint nerves, 2'-5' long, i'-s' wide, the margins usually denticu- late; peduncles flattened, c/'-2' long; umbels 10- 26-flowered; pedicels slender, 2"-3" long; filaments a little longer than the anthers; berries bluish black, about 3" in diameter, maturing the first year. In thickets, Connecticut to Ontario, Minnesota, Ne- braska, North Carolina and Texas. May-July. Smilax Pseudo-China L. Long-stalked Greenbrier. Fig. 1314. Smilax Pseudo-China L. Sp. PI. 1031. 1753. Glabrous throughout, rootstock often bearing large tubers, stem terete, the branches angled. Lower part of the stem beset with straight needle-shaped prickles, the upper part and the branches mostly unarmed; petioles 3"-i2" long; leaves firm, or becoming quite leathery when old, green on both sides or occasionally glaucous beneath, ovate, often narrowed at about the middle or lobed at base; acute or cuspidate at the apex, 7-9-nerved, 2i'-s' long, ii'-3i' wide, often denticulate on the margins; peduncles flat- tened, 1'-3' long; umbels 12-40-flowered; pedicels 3"-4" long; stamens 6-10; anthers as long as the filaments or longer; berries black, 8-16 in the umbels, 2"-3" in diameter, 1-3-seeded, maturing the first year. In
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