Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 2769 - Asarum canadense (Canadian Asarabaca, or Wild Ginger) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 2769, Asarum canadense (Canadian Asarabaca, or Wild Ginger).

• Plate: 2769
• Latin name: Asarum canadense
• Common name: Canadian Asarabaca, or Wild Ginger
• Linnaean class / order: Dodecandria / Monogynia
• Publication: 1827
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

[ 2769 ]

ASARUM CANADENSE. CANADIAN ASARABACA, OR WILD GINGER

. . .

Class and Order.
Dodecandria Monogynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Aristolochiæ. )

Generic Character.
Perianthium simplex, superum, coloratum, trilobum. Antheræ laterales. Stigma 6-lobum. Capsula 6-locularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
Asarum canadense; foliis geminalis cordato-reniformibus subpubscentibus, perianthii lobis acuminatis velutinis reflexis. Asarum canadense. Mich. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 279. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 838. Lam. Ill. t. 394. f. 2. Pursh Fl. N. Am. v. 2. p. 596. Bigelow's Am. Med. Bot. v. 1. t. 15. p. 149. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 589. Sweet Br. Fl. Gard. v. 1. t. 95. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 461. Asarum Carolinianum. Wall. Fl. Car. p. 143. Asarum latifolium. Salisb. Prodr. p. 344. Descr. Root rounded, creeping, between fleshy and woody, throwing out long, descending, whitish fibres. Stem very short, decumbent, rounded, glabrous, sheathed with three or four large, brownish, between fleshy and membranous, cymbiform scales. From the top of this stem spring two leaves, cordato-reniform, often more decidedly reniform than those here figured, rather obtuse at the point, the lobes at the base rounded, the sinus very deep, slightly pubescent on the upper surface, beneath more downy, the margin indistinctly ciliated; there are three principal nerves on each side the midrib springing from the base, and

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