ORD. VII. Sarmentacere, - 157. 
ARISTOLOCHIA LONGA, LONG-ROOTED BIRTHWORT. 
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SYNONYMA. Aristolochia. Pharm. Edinb. Aristolochia longa. 
Clus. Hist. ti.p.70. J. Bauh. Hist. iii. p. 560. Gerard. Emac. p. 
846. Raii Hist. p.762. Aristolochia longa vera. Bauh. Pin. p. 
307. Park. Theat. p. 291. Tourn. Inst. p. 162. Miller’s Fig. 
tab. 61. 
Sp. Ch. A. fol. cordatis petiolatis integerrimis NRE igy caule: 
infirmo, flor. Sohtarits. 
THE root.is perennial, long, tapering, “branched, externally” 
wrinkled and brown, internally yellowish: the stems are slender, 
round, branched, trailing, and usually exceed a foot in length: the 
leaves are heart-shaped, obtuse, entire, veined, of a pale green 
colour, and placed alternately upen round footstalks, which are 
about the length of the leaves: the flowers are solitary, and stand 
upon peduncles, which arise close to the leaf-stalks: the corolla 
forms a more regular tube than that of the Serpentaria, and is: 
tongue-shaped at the extremity: the other parts of fructification 
are similar to those described of Serpentaria. It is a native of the 
South: of: Europe, and flowers from June till O&tober. 
The medicinal character of Aristolochia was formerly in great: 
repute, and physicians very genérally employed various species of 
the plant. Those received into. our. pharmacopeeias were, 1. Aris-- 
tolochia longa.. 2. A. rotunda. 3..A. tenuis or clematitis of Lin-: 
nexus. But the roots of these plants have for a long time been 
gradually falling into disuse, and at present, we Believe e, are rarely 
if ever prescribed: they are all expunged from the Mat. Med. of | 
the London Pharmacopeeia, but in that of the Edinburgh the last. 
species. is still retained, and therefore, according to our plan, it 
might have been figured here; but as these different species are 
_ generally allowed to be similar in their es qualities, we trust” 
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