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ARISTOLOCHIA (Gr. apwros, best, Xoxeia, child-birth, in allusion to its repute in promoting child-birth)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 498 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
ARISTOLOCHIA (Gr. apwros, best, Xoxeia, child-birth, in allusion to its repute in promoting child-birth) , a genus of shrubs or herbs of the natural order Aristolochiaceae, often with climbing stems, found chiefly in the tropics. The flower forms a tube inflated at the base. A. Clematitis, birthwort, is a central and southern
European
  species, found sometimes in England apparently wild on ruins and similar places, but not a native. A. Sipho, Dutchman's pipe, or pipe vine, is a climber, native in the
woods
  of the
Atlantic
  United States, and grown in Europe as a
garden
  plant. The flower is bent like a pipe.
A member of the same order is the asarabacca (Asarum europaeum), a small creeping herb with kidney-shaped leaves and small purplish
bell
 -shaped
flowers
 . It is a native of the
woods
  of Europe and north temperate
Asia
 , and occurs wild in some
English
  counties. It was formerly grown for medicinal purposes, the underground
stem
  having cathartic and emetic properties. An allied species, A. canadense, is the Canadian snake-root, a native of Canada and the
Atlantic
  United States.


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