T R I B E 2. 
The Theater of Tlants. 
* HAP« 
Ariflolncbia rotunda vulgatlor* 
Round rooted Birthwort. 
3. Ariftolochialongavera. 
The true long rooced Birthwort, 
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or better, not able to (land upright, but lie or leane downe to the ground, with few or no branches iffuing from 
them, but with many round yellowifh greene leaves full of veines,(landing at diflances without order,one be¬ 
yond the other,every one upon afhort footftalk;at every joynt with the leaves,from the middle ofthefe (talks up¬ 
wards to the top,commcth forth one long hollow flower apeece, fmaller at the bottome, broader at the top, with 
along peece or flippet as it were,at one fide of the top,bending downe.both of them of a deadifh yellow or fome¬ 
what brownifh colour,and fomewhat blackifh purple on the infide:(this flower Diofioridcs compareth to a cap or 
hood, which as it fhould feeme was their fafhion in his timej after the flowers are pad come in their places,fmall 
round and fomewhat long finite of diverfe fifes, fomeas biggeasa Wallnnt without the {hell, fiome asbigge 
as it is with the outward greene fhell, and fome leffer than both, which when it is ripe openeth into three parts# 
(hewing the feede lying in order within it, feparated by certaine skinnes fomewhat flat and round : the roote is 
tuberous, bunched out divetfly, of a darke or fwart colour on the out(5de,and more yellow within. 
Ariftolochia Clemtitis, The tunning rooted Birthwort. 
3. Arijla- 
