PL ex. man. II. ARISTOLOCHI^. 28. Aristol. 26f; 



Woods and ruins; perennial; July and August. 



Her Z* light green, bald ; rhhoma creeping; 5/ew simple, 

 rather flexuous ; leaves not in the least cut ; //ou'er^ yel- 

 lowish green, fecundated by the irritation of the tipula 

 pennicornis. 



II. 29. ASAllUM, Dioscorides. Asaralacca. 



Pengonlum bellshape, 3-lobed ; lobes incurved ; 'stamens 1 2 ; 

 filaynents produced beyond the anthers ; anthers 2-celIed, 

 one cell on each side of the filament; style 1, short; stig- 

 mata 3-rayed ; carcerule adherent, coriaceus, 6-celled ; dis- 

 sepiments separate at the axis ; seeds few, ascending, me- 

 niscus, with an elevated ridge below. — Rhizoma creeping; 

 stem simple, short, 2-leaved, 1-flowered; leaves petiolate, 

 ■opposite; flowers terminal, ped uncled. 



Asarum Eiiropceum. European asaralacca^ 



Leaves 2, kidneyshape, obtuse, not in the least cut. 



Asarum, Rail Syn. 158 ; Ger. em. 836, 1. 

 Asarum vulgare, Park. 266. 

 Asarum Europaeum, Lin. S. P. 633^ 

 Asarum lucidum, SaZisS. Prod. 344. 

 Common asarahacca. Folefoot. Hazelwort. 



Woods in the North ; perennial ; May. 



Stem round, pubescent; jioivers blackish purple, villous, 

 drooping. — Root coarsely powdered purgative, finely pow- 

 dered emetic; leaves infused in doses of a drachm or two are 

 emetic, in powder sternutatory, the basis of most cephalic 

 "snuffs. 



Fam. XII. 12. SANTALACE^. Brown. ElcBagnearum 

 et Onograrum genera qucedam^ Jussieu. 

 ThisiacecB, Richard. Elceagnoidecs, 

 Veiitenat. Calyciflorum pars, Linnseus. 

 ElcBagnearum pars^ Adanson. 

 Perigonium adherent, 4 or 5-cut, rather coloured ; <^sti- 

 valion valvular; stamens 4 or 5, opposite to the lobes of the 

 perigonium, and inserted at the base of the lobes; ovary 

 1-celled, 2 or 4^seeded; ovules affixed near the tip of the 

 central placentarium, pendulous ; style 1 ; stigma simple or 

 lobed; pericarp (scleranthum ?) 1-seeded, nut or drupe- 

 like; pm^perTW ' fleshy, «ame form as the seed; corculum 

 cylindrical, central, inverse; radicle above. — Shrubby or 

 iindershrubby ; leaves alternate, or somewhat opposite, un- 

 divided, minute, rarely stipule-like; stipule 0;Jlowers small; 

 rather spiked, rarely umbelled, or solitary. 



