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view adopt* '1 bj Endlii her, myself I 

 more attentive study ol the < >rd< 

 that I cannot but const l< r thatthi 

 Birth worts and other plants 



Olicher compares them, witl 

 jii-tic-i-, tn Varna and I Lccads, 

 they an rtainly dicoty !••- 



donous. Their n gularlj t< rnary 

 structure and incompletely t 

 wood indicate, how 

 tendency towards the condition of 

 Dictyogens,and perhaps thej may 

 be looked upon as the i 

 of transition to that class from 

 K\'>.-. qs It is in BOm 

 on that account that they have 

 l>. i n placed in this arrangement 

 la-t in the whole series, and there 

 i a point whi re we may 

 suppose thai the chain ol Orders 

 most retain into itself. It theii 

 association with Sandalworts and 

 Loranths should be objected to, I 

 would submit that the correspon- 

 dence of these Orders in 1 1 *• ir 

 epigynous apetadous flowers, and 

 minute embryo in copious albu- 

 men, arc circumstance b ol a 

 Hunt of no mean importance, and 

 that it is at present impossible t" 

 discover any betti r Btati 

 either of the three < Orders, 



Very common in the equinoctial 

 parts of South America, and rare 

 in other countries ; found spar- 

 ingly in North America, Europe, 

 ami Siberia ; more frequently in 

 the basin of the Mediti rranean, 

 and in small numbers in India. 



Birthworts an- in genera] tonic 

 and stimulating; Aristolochia i-.a- 

 UH name imphi -. considered em- 

 menagogue, especially the I 

 I'l-an Bpeciee rotunda, longa, and 

 Clematitia An infusion of the dried lea 

 plant, is given by native Indian practil 



I with castor oil, they are consider! 

 The rool of A. indica i* supposed by th< I 

 thritic virtues ; it i- verj bitfc r. I 

 BstreUa, or Star K. e I, is highly • st 

 malignant inflammatory fevers, colds, rheuma 

 The power of the root oi \ . - rp< ataxia in am 

 typhus, i- highly spoken of bj Barton ; it 1 

 Valerian, with a warm, bitterish, pw 

 retic, and in certain casi - as an anUsp i 

 porting the Btrengtfa and in allaying the u 

 debility. Dr. Chapman considers it "admira 

 quillise the stomach, more particularly in 

 as an antidote t" serpent bit) a, a quaiity in wh 

 which may !><• mentioned the A tril 

 and powerful Budorific, and the Cardial i i \ 



writes, that the jui<-.- of the root eh. u, : 

 Btupifies it that it may for s long time 1- bai 



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