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Scales of the fertile ament few, decussately opposite or ternate, becoming a small closed cone or sort of drupe.

Leaves.—All radical; twice to thrice ternately compound.

Biternate, twice ternate; i. e. principal divisions three, each bearing three leaflets, 59.

So far as I can judge from these circumstances, I p. 87suppose that it is a species of Smilax, with ternate leaves.��

It broadens and divides atop into three or four lobes, and these, in turn, broaden and divide into minor lobes, double or ternate, and usually rounded at their terminations.