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CHAP. XCVIII.

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1. A. si'pho L’llerit. The Siphon-fete, or tube-fiowered, Birthwort.

Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 311.; L’H^rit. Stirp. Nov., 13, t. 7.; Michx. FI. Bor. Amer., 2.

p. 161. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 155. Lodd. Cat. , ed. 1836.

Sy nonymes. A. macroph^Ua Lam. Encycl., 1. p. 252.; Aristoloche Syphon, Fr. j grossblattrige0 sterluzey, Ger. j Pipe Vine, or Birthwort, Amer.

Engravings. L’Herit. Stirp. Nov., t. 7. > N. Du Ham., 4. t. 10. ; Bot. Mag., t. 534. j and ourfig. 1210.

-A 2. A. tomesto'sa Sims. The tomentose Birthwort.

Identification. Sims in Bot. Mag., t. 1369.; Lodd. Cat. , ed. 1836.engravings. Bot. Mag., t.,1369.; Bot. Cab., t. 641. ; and our fig.Vm.

Spec. Char., $c. Stem twining. Leaves cordate, downybeneath. Peduncle solitary, without a bractea. Corollawith its tube twisted back, and much more deeply dividedthan in A. sipho, expanding flat, and yellow, with themouth of the tube of a deep purple. (Encyc. of PI.)A native of North America ; introduced in 1799,There. is a plant in the Chelsea Botanic Garden,which is 12 ft. high ; but we are not without consider-able doubts as to its being any thing more than avariety of A. sipho. Being tolerably distinct, however,>t merits a place in collections.

App. i. Half-hardy Species of Aristolochia.

17 m s i™l Jervi f e7ts L , Bot. Mag., t. 1116,, Bot. Cab., t. 231., is a native of Candia; introduced inor 5ft •w 1 " 1 • t UCes * ts fl° wers hi May and June. In green-houses, it is seldom seen more than 4 ft.• m height j but, against a conservative wall, it would probablv grow much higher.

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