Se 
ORD. VIII. SARMENTACE. 
From Sarmentum, a long shoot like that of a vine: an order 
consisting of Plants which have climbing stems and branches, 
by which they attach themselves to the neighbouring bodies 
for support. 
ARISTOLOCHIA SERPENTARIA. SNAKE-ROOT BIRTHWORT. 
SYNONYMA4A.. Serpentaria virginiana. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb, 
Aristolochia Pistolochia s. Serpentaria virginiana, caule nodoso, 
Pluk. Alm. 50. t. 148. Catesby Hist. of Carol. t. p. 29. tab..29, 
Raii Hist. vol. iii. p. 394. Aristolochia polyrrhizos virginiana, 
&e. Morris. Hist.p. 310. Park. Theat. p. 420. 
Class Gynandria. Ord. Hexandria. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1022. 
Ess.Gen.Ch. Hexagyna. Cal. 0. Cor. 1-petala, lingulata, integra. 
Caps. 6-locularis, infera. 
Sp..Ch. A. fol. cordato-oblongis planis, caulibus infirmis flexuosis 
teretibus, flor. solitariis. Caulis geniculata valde nodosa.. 
Flores ad radicem. 
THE root is perennial, and composed of a number of small 
fibres, proceeding from a common trunk; externally brown, and 
internally whitish: the stems are slender, round, crooked, jointed, 
and rise about eight or ten inches in height: the leaves are heart~ 
shaped, entire, pointed, veined, and stand upon strong footstalks, 
to which they are attached by three prominent ribs: it has no 
calyx: the flowers are monopetalous, solitary, of a purplish brown: 
colour, and placed upon long sheathed jointed peduncles, which. 
rise from the lower articulations of the stem: the corolla is 
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