America, 



480 TLANT MI'K <>K ALABAMA. 



ARISTOLOCHIACEAE. Birthwort Family. 



ARISTOIiOCHIA I,. Sp. J'l. 2 : IttiO. 17r..S. 



Alxint 170 specif.-, mostly tropical, of the Norllnrii Hemisphere. Nortli 

 7; easloni Inited States, ;{. Climbing peieiiiiial herbs or shrubs. 



Aristolochia serpentaria L. Sp. PI. 2:it61. 17.")^. Virginia Snakkroot. 



Ell. 8k. 2:.M1. (iray, Man. ed. ti. 115. Chap. Kl. STl', in i):irt. 



Carolinian and honisianian areas. I'rom the eastern (inlf States and I'lorida north 

 and west to Connecticnt, the Ohio Valley, .Missouri, and Arkansas. 



Ai..vhama: Tennessee ^'alley to Lower Pine re;;ion. Dry open woods. Lee County, 

 Auburn ( /". .S'. Karle). Autauga County, Prattv'il]c( A'. A. Smilh). Washington, Clarke, 

 Mobile, and Haldwin counties. Flowers maroon purple. ^lay ; not frequent. 

 Perennial. 



Economic uses: The root, known as \'irginia suakeroot, is the " Serpentaria" of 

 the I'nited States l'harinaco]Ki'ia. 



Tv)ie luralilv: "Ilab.in Virginia." 



Herb. Mohr." 



Aristolocliia nashli Kearney, r?ull. Torr. ( 'lub, 21 : 485. 1894. 



Nakkow-lkaf ViR(iiNiA Snakkroot. 



Stem mostly simple, erect, slender, Hexuose from a short rootstock with numerous 

 crowded librons roots; leaves from linear-lanceolate to oltloug-lanceolate, ol)tuse at 

 the apex, narrowly sagittate to auriculate at the basi', short-petioled; peduiules 1 

 to 3 near the base of the stem, one-tlowered, slender, pubescent above; capsule vil- 

 lous, e8])ecially njxm the ribs. 



Louisianian to Carolinian area. Florida. 



Alabama: Lower Pine region, Mountain region. Open dry woods. Mobile County ; 

 not rare in sandy rolling pine woods. Cullman County. .lackson County, on Sand 

 Mountain {lioi/ntou) in light soil. Flowers in May Not infrecptent. 



Readily distinguished Irom A. serpentaria by the narrow, short- petioled leaves. 



Type locality: ''Collected at Lake Ella, Fla., in I8i»4, by Mr. George ^'. Nash." 



Aristolochia sagittata Mnhl. ; Duchartre in DC. Prodr. 15, pt. 1:434. 1864. As 

 synonym. 

 Aristolochia hastata Nutt. Gen. 2 : 200. 1X18. Not H. U. K. 1817. 

 Ell. Sk. 2: 512. 



Carolinian area. South Carolina. 



Alahama : Lower hills and mountain region. Dry open woods. Cullman County. 

 Type locality not specifically given. 



Aristolochia macrophylla Lam. Encycl. 1: 255. 1783. Lakge-leavku Pitk Vine. 



Aristolochia sipho L'ller. Stirp. Nov. 13. 1784. 



Ell. Sk. 2:510. Gray. Man. ed. 6, 454. Chaj.. Fl. 372, 



AUeghenian and Carolinian areas. Pennsylvania west to Missouri and Minnesota, 

 south along the mountains to Tennessee, North Carolina, and (Georgia. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Winston County (T. M. Peters). Woody climber; 

 not collected of late. 



Type locality : "Cette plante crolt natnrellement dans I'Amcrique septentrionale, 

 and vraisemblament dans la X'irginie." 



Aristolochia tomentosa Sims, Bot. Mag. 1. 1360. 1811. Hoary Pipk A'ine. 



Ell. Sk. 2:511. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 445. Chap. Fl. 372. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Mountains of North Carolina to Florida, cen- 

 tral Tenne.ssec, north and west to southern Illinois, soul hern Missouri, and Arkansas. 



Alabama: Lower hills. Central Pine lielt to Upper division of Coast Pine belt; 

 river banks. Hlount County, Mulberry River. Tu.scaloosa and Bibb counties. 

 Clarke County. Suggsville (/>/■. ZJoini/). Flowers greenish brown; .June. Climbing 

 over bushes and small trees; not rare. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Native of North America." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ASARUM L. Sp. PI. 1 : 442. 1753. 



Thirteen species, temperate regions Northern Hemisphere. Europe. Japan, 7. 

 North America, 4. Low perennials. 



