and all these are united by numerous reticulations, most 
prominent on the underside: colour a very delicate yellow 
cage Petioles four to five inches long, terete, very dense- 
y hairy, the hairs mostly deflexed. Peduncle solitary, 
about one and a half or two inches long, reddish, densely 
pubescenti-hirsute, terminated by a single, erect, or inclined 
flower. Perianth superior: Segments three, united into an 
unceolate or globose tube below, which is white within, 
with dark purple lines at the base and at the points of 
union, the rest forming three ovato-acuminate lobes, more 
or less reflexed, whose upper surface is deep purplish-brown, 
and velvety. Stamens twelve, erect, placed upon the top 
of the germen, at the base of the style, purple. Filaments 
subulate, six longer, placed between the rays of the stigma, 
and six shorter, opposite the lobes: Anther lateral, one cell 
on each side, opening by a longitudinal cleft. Pollen 
yellow. Germen globose, tomentoso-hirsute, six-celled, 
each cell many seeded: Style rather short, columnar : 
Stigma umbilicate, with six, spreading, rather obtuse rays. 
A hardy perennial, cultivated in England, before 1713, 
by Bishop Compton, and deserving a place in every collec- 
tion, from the singular structure of the flowers, which are, 
moreover, brighter coloured than those of our European 
species. Some excellent remarks on the medicinal proper- 
ties will be found in Dr. Bieetow’s American Medical Bo- 
tany. Closely as it is allied to the A. Ewropeum in botanical 
character, it does not, like that, act as an emetic. The 
aromatic flavour of the root is more agreeable than that of 
the Aristotocuta serpentaria, and it is much employed in its 
native country as a warm stimulant and diaphoretic. It is 
used instead of Ginger by the country people, and hence 
its name of Wild Ginger. It is called Snake-root too, from 
the similarity of its properties to the Aristotocara just 
' mentioned, and Colé’s-foot, probably, from the shape of 
the leaf. | . 
__It grows in woods, and extends from Canada to Carolina. 
With us, its flowering season often begins in April, in N. 
America in May, and continues till July. 
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