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enclofed in the ne@tarium, fupporting a cylindrical ftyle, fupplied 
witha blunt ftigma. ‘Fruita three-celled red berry, containing two. 
globular feeds. 
- It ufually grows in woods ge thickets, Seweenitsi 3 in March and 
April. 
The root, which is fomewhat thick, knotty, and furnifhed with 
long fibres, externally brown, internally white, and of a bitterifh 
tafte, has been recommended as an aperient and diuretic in dropfies, 
urinary obftructions, and nephritic cafes. Hence it has been termed 
one of the five greater aperient roots. 
It is manifeftly the pupcwn eva of Diofcorides,* who fpeaks highly 
of its deobftruent and diuretic powers; and Riverius relates a caie of 
dropfy fuccefsfully treated by a decodtion of the roots of Rufcus; but 
at prefent this plant is very rarely, if ever, employed in oadidine, 
: Lib. h: ¢s ee 
ARISTOLOCHIA CLEMATITIS. CLIMBING BIRTHWORT, | 
™ 
SYNONYMA. Ariftolochia tenuis,. Pharm, Edinb. Geoff, ii. 13. 
Dale. 194. Alfton, i, 391. Lewis. 111. Murray. i. 356. Bergius. 
719. Edinb. New Difp. 132. Ariftolochia Clematitis re@ta. Bauh. 
Pin. 307. Gerard. Emac. 847. Park. Theat. 292. Raii Hift. 
| 762. Hall. Stirp. Helv.n. 1029. Hudy. Flor, Ang. 394. Withering, 
_ Bot. Arr. 100 3. Mill. Iluft. 
7 ‘oie ae Hexandria.. Lin. Gen, Plant. 1022,. 
fon Ch, Hexagynia. Cal. 03,, Cor 1-petala, lingulata, integra. 
Caps. 6-locularis, infera. 4a Sito 
Sp. Ch. A. foliis cordatis, caule ereéto, floribus axillaribus confertis, 
No. 6.—Part II. BE ROOT 
