This pretty plant, botanically Myrsiphyllum asparagoides, had too long a name for familiar use, so the florists took to calling it Smilax. The leaves do look a little like a Smilax, though of course it is not a Smilax. The English florists now use it for their cut-flower work; but they insist it is not a Smilax, and will not have this name. They call it Creeping Myrtle. But it is no more a Myrtle than a Smilax. In America Creeping Myrtle is the small Periwinkle, Vinca Minor. These tossing about of "common" names by no one of any recognized authority, long before they are common, is a nuisance, as the facts now given well illustrate. Nomenclature becomes a Babel where no man knows what his neighbor is talking of.