56 FLORA HOM@OPATHICA. 
cum tamen tota planta aromatica sit et gustu mordax, quod 
insignis calidatis indicium est. Ceterum cum folia adstringendi 
naturam habeant, calorem ipsum febrilem, sic admota ad inte- 
riorem retrudunt, atque ita morbum adangent.” And Zorn 
also says in his Botanologia Medica (Berlin, 1714, s. 96), “That 
the pounded leaves, placed upon the pulse, will remove the 
fever ; but we also know by manifold experience, that Asarum 
will produce ebullition of the blood and feverish excitement.” 
Descript10on.—The Asarabacca is a perennial plant; flower- 
ing in May and June; with a short, simple stem) round and 
pubescent, from which come two kidney-shaped leaves of a 
glossy green colour, and from the axils of the two leaves springs 
a solitary drooping flower, upon a short footstalk, of a 
greenish colour, streaked, and tipped with chocolate outside, 
and purplish brown within. The leaves darken as they fade, 
and emit a peculiar pungent odour. 
There are two species besides the As, Europeum, viz.: 1. 
As. Canadensis, Canadian Asarabacca. 
sweet-scented Asarabacca; a native of Virginia and Carolina, 
in North America; China, and Japan. 
GEOGRAPHICAL Disrrizvrion. 
Europe ; 
2. As. Virginicum, 
—A native of most parts of 
found in the mountainous woods, in all climates, in 
Pontus, Phrygia, Illyria, Italy, and in many parts of the north 
of Germany, Poland, France, both in Provence and in the 
neighbourhood of Paris, It is indigenous in this country. 
| Locariries.—In dark mountainous woods, in the most shady 
e — rare ; found in the mountainous woods in Yorkshire, Lan- 
: omens Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Northumberland ; 
hes ee in the neighbourhood of Halifax, Yorkshire ; 
— been found between Henley and Maiden- 
