Green Briar

Green Briar (Smilax Rotundifolia) - A high climbing species with large, thin, and nearly round leaves. The stems are angular and the prickles stout, scattered, and sometimes a little curved. This is a handsome strong-growing species, which does well in the Trinity College Botanic Gardens, Dublin. N. America. Syns., S. caduca and S. quadrangularis.

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Smilax Aspera

Smilax Aspera - A well-marked species, with angular and usually prickly stems, reaching a height of 5 to 10 feet. In color the leaves are dark green, with flecks of white on the upper surface, and the flowers whitish and fragrant. Variety mauritanica has angular stems of a considerable length and bearing few prickles; they are also rare on the leaves. It is a handsome plant from the Mediterranean and the Canaries.

Smilax Cantab

Smilax Cantab - For many years this has grown in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. It is evergreen, the strong rounded shoots reaching a height of 12 feet or more, armed with strong, straight green prickles; the branches slender, and usually spineless. The male flowers are fragrant, in clusters of eight to twelve. This plant comes near S. rotundifolia, but the leaves differ in shape.

Smilax Glauca

Smilax Glauca - This plant has angular stems of about 3 feet, armed with rather stout numerous or scattered prickles, or may sometimes be without any. The leaves are partially persistent, glaucous beneath and sometimes above. N. America.

Smilax Hispida

Smilax Hispida - Quite a distinct plant, the stems of which are usually thickly hispid with slender straight prickles. The leaves are thin and green on both surfaces, the margins usually toothed. N. America.

Smilax Laurifolia

Smilax Laurifolia - A high climbing species, the stems round, armed with strong straight prickles, the branches angled, mostly unarmed. It is evergreen, and easily recognised by its leathery, bright green, three-nerved leaves, elliptic in shape.

Smilax Pseudo-China

Smilax Pseudo-China - The lower part of the stem is armed with straight, needle-like prickles, the upper part and the branches mostly unarmed. The leaves become leathery when old. They are ovate, often narrowed about the middle or lobed at the base, seven-or nine-nerved and green on both sides, sometimes toothed on the margin. N. America and the W. Indies.

Smilax Tamnoides

Smilax Tamnoides - This grows well in the Bamboo Garden at Kew, and shows well how such a plant may be used to ramble over tree stumps to make a mass of picturesque vegetation. It has the free-growing habit of S. aspera, and bears numerous black berries.

Smilax Walteri

Smilax Walteri - Stems angled, prickly below, the branches usually unarmed. The berries are bright red, but perhaps not produced in this country. N. America.—R. Irwin Lynch.

Bristly Green Briar

Bristly Green Briar (Smilax Bona-Nox) - The root-stocks have large tubers; the stems are slightly angled, the branches often four-angled, the leaves green and shining on both sides, and their margins fringed with needle-like prickles. N. America.