Pl. 49. Aristolochia serpentaria.

Plate XLIX.
Fig. 1. Aristolochia serpentaria with the flower beginning to expand.
Fig. 2. Side view of the flower expanded.
Fig. 3. Front of ditto.
Fig. 4. Longitudinal section of the flower.
Fig. 5. Style, anthers, and stigma magnified.
Fig. 6. Fruit.
[I am indebted to a gentleman in Georgia for the very natural drawing of this plant.]

This image is from Aristolochia serpentaria in American Medical Botany, Bigelow, 1817-1821.