. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. 190 POPULAR FLORA. III. Apetalons Division. 74. BIRTHWORT FAMILY. Order ARISTOLOCHIACEtE. Herbs or twining vines, with perfect and largo flowers, the tube of the 3-lobed calyx coherent with the 6-ceUed and many-seeded ovary. Leaves raostly heart- shaped or kidney-shaped, and entire, on long foot- stalks, alternate, or else from the rootstock at the surface of the ground. Lob
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. 190 POPULAR FLORA. III. Apetalons Division. 74. BIRTHWORT FAMILY. Order ARISTOLOCHIACEtE. Herbs or twining vines, with perfect and largo flowers, the tube of the 3-lobed calyx coherent with the 6-ceUed and many-seeded ovary. Leaves raostly heart- shaped or kidney-shaped, and entire, on long foot- stalks, alternate, or else from the rootstock at the surface of the ground. Lobes of the calyx edge to edge in the bud, usu- ally dull-colored. 471 of Canacl<T Asarum or Wild-Ginger, 111 flower. 472 Magni- fied flower divided lenglhwiae, and the calyx spread out flat. 473. Flower, Willi the lobes of the calyx cutaway, and tile ovary cut across. 474 A 5cp- aratestamen, more magnified ; nntaida view. 475. Magnified seed divided Stemless herbs, with a pair of leaves and a flower between them from the spicy-tasted and creeping rootstock: calyx short, 3-cleft or 8-lobed; stamens 12, with filaments, which are united only with the base of the thick 6-lobed style, and are pointed above the anthers, (Asarum) Wild-Gingek. Twining shrubs or else low herbs: calyx a crooked tube, with a narrow throat and a slightly 3-lobed spreading border: stamens 6, sessile on the outside of the 3 lobes of the sessile stigma, i. e. two anthers or 4 cells to each lobe, attached to the stigma by their whole length: fruit a 6-vaIved pod, filled with numerous flat seeds, {Aristolochia) Bikthwoet. Birthwort. ArisiolbcMa. 1. Snakeroot B. or Virginia Snakeroot. Herb 8' to 15' high; several stems from a tufted root, downy; flowers borne next the ground, in general shape much like the letter S; leaves oblong- heart-shaped or halberd-shaped. Rich woods; becoming scarce. A. serpent aria. 2. Pipe-vine B. A tall woody climber, with rounded kidney-shaped leaves, 8' or 12' b
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