480 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ARISTOLOCHIACEAE. Birthwort Family. 
ARISTOLOCHIA L. Sp. Pl. 2:960. 1753. 
About 170 species, mostly tropical, of the Northern Hemisphere. North America, 
7; eastern United States, 3. Climbing perennial herbs or shrubs. 
Aristolochia serpentaria L. Sp. Pl.2:961. 1753. VIRGINIA SNAKEROOT, 
Ell. Sk. 2:511. Gray, Man. ed.6, 445. Chap. FI. 372, in part. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. l'rom the eastern Gulf States and Florida north 
and west to Connecticut, the Ohio Valley, Missouri, and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Lower Pine region. Dry open woods. Lee County, 
Auburn (/. 8, Harle). Autauga County, Prattville (/. 4. Smith). Washington, Clarke, 
Mobile, and Baldwin counties, Flowers maroon purple. May; not frequent. 
Perennial. 
Economic uses: The root, known as Virginia snakeroot, is the ‘“Serpentaria” of 
the United States Pharmacopwia. 
Type locality: ‘Hab.in Virginia.” 
Herb. Mohr. 
Aristolochia nashii Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club, 21:485, 1894. 
NARROW-LEAF VIRGINIA SNAKEROOT, 
Stem mostly simple, erect, slender, flexuose from a short rootstock with numerous 
crowded fibrous roots; leaves from linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at 
the apex, narrowly sagittate to auriculate at tho base, short-petioled; peduncles 1 
to 3 near the base of the stem, one-flowered, slender, pubescent above; capsule vil- 
lous, especially upon the ribs. 
Louisianian to Carolinian area. Florida. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region, Mountain region. Opendry woods. Mobile County ; 
not rare in sandy rolling pine woods, Cullman County. Jackson County, on Sand 
Mountain (Boynton) in light soil. Flowersin May Not infrequent. 
Readily distinguished trom A. serpentaria by the narrow, short-petioled leaves. 
Type locality: ‘Collected at Lake Ella, Fla., in 1894, by Mr. George V. Nash.” 
Aristolochia sagittata Muhl.; Duchartre in DC. Prodr. 15, pt. 1:434. 1864. As 
synonym. 
Aristolochia hastata Nutt. Gen, 2: 200. 1818. Not H.B.K. 1817. 
Ell. Sk. 2:512. 
Carolinian area. South Carolina. 
ALABAMA: Lower hills and mountain region, Dry open woods. Cullman County. 
Type locality not specifically given. 
Aristolochia macrophylla Lam. Encyel.1: 255, 1783.) LARGE-LEAVED Pirr VINE. 
Aristolochia sipho L’Her. Stirp. Nov. 13. 1784. 
Ell. 8k.2:510. Gray, Man. ed.6,454. Chap. F1, 372, 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas, Pennsylvania west to Missouri and Minnesota, 
south along the mountains to Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Winston County (7. M. Peters). Woody climber; 
not collected of late. 
Type locality: ‘‘Cette plante croit naturellement dans Amérique septentrionale, 
and vraisemblament dans la Virginie.” 
Aristolochia tomentosa Sims, Bot. Mag. ¢. 7369, 1811. Hoary Pipe VINE. 
Ell, Sk.2:511. Gray, Man. ed. 6,445, Chap. FI. 372. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Mountains of North Carolina to Florida, cen- 
tral Tennessee, north and west to southern Illinois, southern Missouri, and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Lower hills. Central Pine belt to Upper division of Coast Pine belt: 
river banks. Blount County, Mulberry River. Tuscaloosa and Bibb counties. 
Clarke County, Suggsville (Dr. Denny). Flowers greenish brown; June. Climbing 
over bushes and small trees; not rare. Perennial, 
Type locality: ‘‘Native of North America,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
ASARUM L. Sp. Pl. 1:442. 1753. 
Thirteen species, temperate regions Northern Hemisphere. Europe. Japan, 7. 
North America, 4. Low perennials. 
