510 GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. 



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Root perennial. Scape six to eight inches high, pubescent, leafless ex- 

 cepting a small bracteal leaf at the base of the germ, one-flowered. Leaves 

 of the root two, lanceolate, nerved, pubescent. Segments of the perianth 

 ovate-lanceolate, brownish purple, the interior narrower and a little tortu- 



ous. 

 cent. 



LaheUum purple with deeper streaks, large, divided in front, pubea^ 



Grows in rocky soils, in shaded situations. No species ol 

 ble genus is found in the low country of Carolina or Georgia. 

 Flowers May — June. 



remarka- 



GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. 



ARISTOLOCHIA. 



Calyx 0. Corolla I Calyx 0. 



1 petal a, ligulata, basi 1 



petalled 



} 



Corolla 



ligulate, 

 base. 



ventricosa. Capsula j ventricose at 



6 locularis, polysper- Capsule 6 celled, many 



ma, infera. 



i 



seeded, inferior. 



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1. SiPHo. L'Heritier. 



A, foliis cordatis, I Leases cordate, a- 

 acutis; caule volubili; cute; stem voluble; pe- 

 pedunculis unifloris, duncles one-flowered 



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bractea ovata instruct- furnished with an ovate 



is; corollis adscenden- 



, Umbo trifido ae- 



bractea; corolla ascen- 



the border three- 

 equal. 



tibus, 

 quali. 



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Sp. pi. 4. p. 155. Mich. 2. p. iGl. Pursh, 2. p. 596. Nutt..2. p- 199- 



Avine climbing over trees of large size, heaves alternate, very S | 

 cordate, acute, strongly veined, sprinkled with hairs over both sur 



