No. 10. ARXSTOLOCHXA. 01 



No. 10. 



ARISTOLOCUIA SERPENTARIA 



English Name— SNAKEROOT BIRTH WORT. 



French Name — Sebpjsntaibje de Virginie. 

 German Name — Schlangen Osterluzet* 



Officinal Name — Serpentaria Virginiana. 



Vulgar Names — Virginia Snakeroot, Snakeweedy 

 Snagrel* 



Authorities — Linnaeus, Schoepf, Woodville, 

 Pursh, Elliot, Catesby> Colden, Cornutus, Moseley, 

 B. Barton, Bigelow fig, 49, W. Bart. 2. fig- 28, s^nd 

 all the Dispensaries, Pharmacopeias and IVIateria Me- 

 dicasj &c. 



Genus Aristolochia — Perigone tubular colored. 

 base swelling, tuhQ tortaose, Vimh labiate, often ligu- 

 lar. No corolla. Germ inferior : stigma sessile Iobe<l# 

 surrounded by six stamina epigynous sessile. Capsu! 

 six celled, many seeded. 



Species A. Serpentaria — Stem simple flexuose; 



leaves lanceolate, cordate, entire^ and acuminate : 

 flowers bilabiate subradical, peduncles curved, uni- 

 flore, scaly and jointed. 



DESCRIPTION— Root perennial, knotty and gib- 



bose, brown and very fibrous, fibres long, small, yel- 

 low when fresh — Stems round, slender, weak, flex- 

 uose, jointed, less than a feot high, bearing from three 

 to seven leaves, and from one to three flowers — Leaves 



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