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The firil account we have of Serpentaria 



s 



th 



edition of G 





d. in which we are told th 



given in Tohnfo 



Virginia, and grew in the garden of Mr. John Tradefc 



It was brought 



om 



f South 



Lambeth, ni i 

 with the Piftol 



But Johnfon evidently confounds the Serpentaria 



cretica of Clufiu 



I 



6i,s. Dn J.. C 



publiihed at Paris, Canadenfium plantarum, aliarumque nond 



Hiftoria, wherein the Serpentai 



Rad 



Noth23 A 



t> 



d 



d under the name of 

 ghlv extolled as an eifedual 



emedv for the bites of the moft poifonous ferp 



Piukenet, whofe botanical knowledg 



of this 



doubted, informed Dale, th 



th 



roots of tl 



Ariilolochia were fent to Europe for thofe of fnake 

 this might have happened a century 



will not be 

 different fpecies of 



but though 



ago, at prefent the pradice ap 

 pears to be no longer continued, for we have carefully examined feve 



P 



£1^ 



of fnake-root. w^ithout difc 



thofe of the 

 that 



found 



others referred to by D 



hefe roots intermixed with 



We 



may 



however 



among thefe roots, fome fp 



of th 



whole 



were 



3 



hich differed fro 



d figure, having lance-iliaped 



accord v/ith that 



leaves. And this variety of Serpentaria feems to acco; 



noticed by Alflon, who fays, " the dried fpecimen I have of the whole 



brought diredly from America by Mr. Richard Lightbody, 

 1, agrees with none of them ; (meaning the three mentioned 



furgeon, i 



by Dale) the leaves no way refembling a heart at the footftalk 



there all 



diih, or obtufely pointed 



" b 



Th 



from which 



the prefent figure was defigned, is nov/ growing in the Royal Botanic 



* " Mifla quoque eft ad me ex notha Anglia radix quam Serpcntarlae vocant, vernacule 

 Snagroel cum hac infcrlptlone. Hsec radix alexiterium praefentiffimum eft, contra mor- 

 fum ferpentis ingentis pernitiofiffimique in notha Anglia, cujus morfus intra duodecim 

 horas interficit, nifi hujus radicis fumatur portio, qua" fumpta nullus unquam auditus eft 

 periclitari de vita." p. 214. 



a " Tres radices Tub hoc nomine in ofticinis noftris venlunt, ut nos monuit eruditiill- 

 mus ille Botanicus Leonard Plukenetius^ M. D. in literis ad me datis, viz. i. Ariftolochia 

 polyrrhizos, auriculatis foHis Virginiana. Pluk. Phytog.. Tab. ^^. Jlmag. 50 

 Injt. 162. y^. 

 dicitur. Pluk. 



taria Virginiana, caule nodofo." This laft is the plant we have figured. S 



iculatis foliis Virginiana. Pluk. Phytog.. Tab. 'jS. JImag. 50. lourn. 

 2. Ariftolochia Violae fruticofae foHis Virginiana, cujus radix Serpentaria 

 Phytog. T. 15. Jimag. 50. &c. 3. Ariftolochia Piftolochia, feu Serpen- 



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