480 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ARISTOLOCHIACEAE. Birth wort Family. 

 ARISTOLOCHIA L. Sp. PL 2 : 960. 1753. 



About 170 species, mostly tropical, of the Northern Hemisphere. North America, 

 7; eastern United States, 3. Climbing perennial herbs or shrubs. 



Aristolochia serpentaria L. Sp. PL 2 : 961. 1753. VIRGINIA SNAKEROOT. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 511. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 445. C hap. Fl. 372, in part. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. From the eastern Gulf States and Florida north 

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



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley to Lower Pine region. Dry open woods. Lee County, 

 Auburn (F. S. Earle). Autauga County, Prattville (E. A. Smith). Washington, Clarke, 

 Mobile, and Baldwin counties. Flowers maroon purple. May; not frequent. 

 Perennial. 



Economic uses: The root, known as Virginia snakeroot, is the " Serpeutaria " of 

 the United States Pharmacopoeia. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Mohr. 



Aristolocliia nashii Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 485. 1894. 



NARROW-LEAP VIRGINIA SNAKEROOT. 



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

 crowded fibrous roots; leaves from linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at 

 the apex, narrowly sagittate to auriculate at the base, short-petioled ; peduncles 1 

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

 lous, especially upon the ribs. 



Louisianiau to Carolinian area. Florida. 



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

 not rare in sandy rolling pine woods. Cnllman County. Jackson County, on Sand 

 Mountain (Boynton) in light soil. Flowers in May Not infrequent. 



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



Type locality : "Collected at Lake Ella, Fla., in 1894, by Mr. George V. Nash." 



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



synonym. 



Aristolocliia hastata Nutt. Gen. 2 : 200. 1818. Not H. B. K. 1817. 

 Ell. Sk. 2: 512. 



Carolinian area. South Carolina. 



ALABAMA: Lower hills and mountain region. Dry open woods. Cnllman County. 

 Type locality not specifically given. 



Aristolochia macrophylla Lara. Encycl. 1: 255. 1783. LARGE-LEAVED PIPE VINE. 



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



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



Alleghenian 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 croit uaturellement dans PAmerique septentrionale, 

 and vraiseinblament dans la A'irginie." 



Aristolochia tomentosa Sims, Bot. Mag. 1. 1369. 1811. HOARY PIPE VINE. 



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



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

 tral Tennessee, north and west to southern Illinois, southern Missouri, and Arkansas. 



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

 river banks. Blount County, Mulberry River. Tuscaloosa and Bibb counties. 

 Clarke County, Snggsville (Dr. Denny). 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. PL 1 : 442. 1753. 



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

 North America, 4. Low perennials. 



