. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. VUlgire, Targ. (Arum ArisAriim, Linn.). A foot high ; Ivs. cordate or somewhat hastate, long-stalked : spathe purple, incurved at the many forms «nd many names. Can be grown in the open with pro- tection. ABISTOLOCHIA (named for supposed medicinal vir- tues). AristoloehiAcew. Birthwort. Many species of
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. VUlgire, Targ. (Arum ArisAriim, Linn.). A foot high ; Ivs. cordate or somewhat hastate, long-stalked : spathe purple, incurved at the many forms «nd many names. Can be grown in the open with pro- tection. ABISTOLOCHIA (named for supposed medicinal vir- tues). AristoloehiAcew. Birthwort. Many species of tropical and temperate regions, remarkable for the very odd- shaped fls. The corolla is want- ing, but the calyx is corolla-like, tubular, variously bent, and com- monly tumid above the ovary : stamens commonly 0, short and adnate to the style (Fig. 140). Mostly woody twiners, the great- er part of them kn •only in warm glass-houses. Many species are evergreen. The ten- der species are cult, for the strik- ingly irregular and grotesque fls. Monogr. by Duchartre in De- Candolle's Prodromus, Vol. 15, Part 1 (1864).. 139. Flower of Dutchman's Pipe. Aristolochia macr^phylla Showing the ovary at a. and the swelling of 1 alyx-tube s Natural e ARISTOLOCHIA 95 at the top : fls. terminal, solitary, S-shaped, much en- larged above the ovary, fereenish. E. states. —Occasion- ally cult. Roots used in medicine. Reputed remedy for snake bites. Clematltis, Linn. Two ft. or less tall, glabrous : Ivs. reniform-pointed, ciliate on the margins : fls. axillary and clustered, straight, greenish. Eu. —Rarely cult., and occasionally escaped. AA. Woodif, twining. B. Cultivated in the open. macrophylla. Lam. (A. S'ipho, L'Her). Dutchman's Pipe. Figs. 138, 139, 140. Very tall, twining, glabrous : Ivs. very large, broadly reniform or rounded, becoming glabrous : fls. solitary or 2 or 3 together in the axils, U-shaped, enlarged above the ovary, with a 3-lobed, spreading limb, purplish. E. states.
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