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91 



ARISTOLOCHIA SERPENTARIA. 



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SNAKE-ROOT 

 BIRTH WORT 



5 TNO NTMJ. Serpentarla 



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Fharm. Lo?id, ^ Edinh 



X-A 



Ariftoloi 



PluL Aim, s 



Piftolochia f. Serpentar 



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g 



48 



Catejhy Hift, of 



caule nod 

 p. 20. tab. 



9 



Rail Htji. vol. nip. 394, Ariftolochia polyiTliizos virginiana, & 

 Morris. Hifi. Hi. p. 310. . Park Theat. p. 420. ' 



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Clafs Gynandrla. Ord. Hexandria. Li?t. Gen. Plant. 1022, 



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EJf. Gen. Ch, Hexagyna. 



a 



L o. 



Cor, i-pejtala, lingulata, integra. 



Caps. 6-locularis, infera. 



Sp. Ch. 



A. fol. cordato-oblongis planis, caulibus infirmis flexuolis 



Caulis geniculata valdc nodofa, Flores 



teretibusj flor folitariis. 

 ad radicem, f 



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y 



tr - 



THE root is perennial, and compofed of a number of fmall fibres 



proceeding from a common trunk 



allyb 



and internally 



whitifh : the flems are flender, round, crooked, jointed, and rife about 



ght 



pointed 



or ten mches in height: the leaves are heart-fhaped, entire. 



d, and fland upon ftrong footftalks, to which they 



attached by three prominent ribs : it has no calyx : the flowers 

 monopetalous, folitary, of a purplifh brown colour, and placed upon 

 long fheathed jointed peduncles, which rife from the lower articula- 



of the ftem 



the corolla is tubular, irreg 



tended into a globular figure, at the middl 



tradted 



the bafe dif 

 and twifled 



the extremity fpreading, and of a triangular form : it has no fila- 



but fix anthercT, which are attached to the under fide of the 



ftigma : the germen is oblo 



gular, and placed below the 



c 



ftyle is extremely fliort : the ftigma is roundilh, and divided 



iix parts: the capf 



lie is h( 

 feveral fm'all flat feed 





gonal, fep 



fi 



which 



Auguft. 



No. 22, 



It is a native of Virginia, and fl 



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