The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . onflict, until it reached ai creeping plant, of the leaves of which it; partook with greediness — that plant wasi the Guaco. He secured the reptile, andbrought away the plant the leaves of whichit had eaten. The snake, although bittenby one of a most deadly species, quite re-covered. Another report, as probable as theother, is that snakes have been observedcarefully to avoid localities where the plantgrows. Many persons are so firmly per-suaded that the snake will n
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . onflict, until it reached ai creeping plant, of the leaves of which it; partook with greediness — that plant wasi the Guaco. He secured the reptile, andbrought away the plant the leaves of whichit had eaten. The snake, although bittenby one of a most deadly species, quite re-covered. Another report, as probable as theother, is that snakes have been observedcarefully to avoid localities where the plantgrows. Many persons are so firmly per-suaded that the snake will not approachthe Guaco, that when travelling in thebush, they carry a small piece of the rootof the plant in their pocket. So then, this?wonderful plant prevents the access of snakes, stupefies them, and kills them if| they do come, and cures them if bitten by? a fellow snake, and likewise cures humanbeings bitten by these venomous There can be no doubt of the partial truthof some of these statements, and hence,not only the botanical history, but themedical properties of Guaco, demand accu-rate Aristolochia gigantea. Several different kinds of Aristolochiaare cultivated in hot-houses for the singu-; larity, and in some cases for the handsome! appearance, of their flowers, albeit theirI colour is usually of a dingy hue. Thej flowers of A. glauca act as a sort of fly-trap:the flowers are bent in the middle, andlined with hairs pointed downwards, sothat ingress is easy but escape impossibleto the unlucky insect, which thus, it maybe unconsciously, aids in the ripening ofthe seed. A. Sipho, a native of the Alle-ghany mountains, is cultivated as a climb-ing plant, out of doors, for the sake of itslarge, heart-shaped leaves; the flower iscurved like a siphon, hence its name; it hasalso received the name of Pipe-vine, froma resemblance in the form of the flowersto that of a tobacco-pipe. [M. T. MJ A genus of the naturalfamily Tiliacece. There a
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