ARISTOLOCHIA (Gr. apwros, best, Xoxeia,

See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child-

See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

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 .