PLex.mon. 11. ARISTOLOCHLZE. 28. Aristol. 268 
Woods and ruins; perennial; July and August. 
Herb light green, bald ; rhizoma creeping ; stem simple, 
rather flexuous ; leaves not in the least cut ; flowers yel- 
lowish green, fecundated by the irritation of the tipula 
pennicornis. 
II. 29. ASARUM, Dioscorides. Asarabacca. 
Perigonium bellshape, 3-lobed ; lobes incurved ; stamens 1 2 ; 
filaments produced beyond the anthers ; anthers 2-celled, 
one cell on each side of the filament; style 1, short; stig- 
mata 3-rayed ; carcende 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 Europceum. European asarabacca . 
Leaves 2, kidneyshape, obtuse, not in the least cut. 
Asarum, Raii Syn. 158 • Ger. em. 836, 1. 
Asarum vulgare, Park. 266. 
Asarum Europceum, Lin. S. P. 633. 
Asarum luc'uium, Salisb. Prod. 344. 
Common asarabacca. Folefoot. Hazelieort. 
Woods in the North; perennial; May. 
Stem round, pubescent; flowers 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. SANT ALACEiE. Brown. Elceagnearum 
et Onograrum genera qucedam , Jussieu. 
Thisiacece , Richard. Elceagnoidece , 
Ventenat. Calyciflorum pars , Linnaeus. 
Elceagnearum pars , Adanson. 
Perigonium adherent, 4 or 5-cut, rather coloured ; aesti- 
vation 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 ; perisperm fleshy, same form as the seed ; corculum 
cylindrical, central, inverse ; radicle above. — Shrubby or 
undershrubby ; leaves alternate, or somewhat opposite, un- 
divided, minute, rarely stipule-like; stipule 0; flowers small; 
rather spiked, rarely umbelled, or solitary. 
