ternate

Fruit oblong to ovate, glabrous, with slender equal ribs, numerous oil-tubes, and depressed or cushion-like stylopodium.—Glabrous perennials, with ternately or pinnately compound leaves, involucre and involucels scanty or none, and white or yellow flowers.

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.