Crossword-Solution: ARISTOLOCHIA
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| Clue | Answers |
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| NORTH American climbing plant | 1 answer |
| NORTH American garden climbing shrub | 1 answer |
| NORTH American garden shrub | 1 answer |
| NORTH American garden plant | 2 answers |
| AMERICAN climbing plant | 3 answers |
| South American plant | 14 answers |
| NORTH American shrub/tree | 21 answers |
| North American plant | 25 answers |
| Climbing Plant | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEEZAC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ARISTOLOCHIA (5)
Thus the mimicry of the black generally red-marked American "Aristolochia swallowtails" (Pharmacophagus) by the females of Papilio swallowtails was probably begun in this way.
Thank you for the Aristolochia and Viscum cases: what species were they? I ask, because oddly these two very genera I have seen advanced as instances (I forget at present by whom, but by good men) in which the agency of insects was absolutely necessary for impregnation.
With respect to your case of Aristolochia, I think further observation would convince you that it is not fertilised only by larvae, for in a nearly parallel case of an Arum and a Aristolochia, I found that insects flew from flower to flower.
Fabricius and Sprengel state that when flies have once entered the flowers of Aristolochia they never escape,--a statement which I could not believe, as in this case the insects would not aid in the cross-fertilisation of the plant; and this statement has now been shown by Hildebrand to be erroneous.
Many fine plants grew in it:* [Especially upon the broad terraces of gravel, some of which are upwards of a mile long, and 200 feet above the stream: they are covered with boulders of rock, and are generally opposite feeders of the river.] I especially noticed _Aristolochia saccata,_ which climbs the loftiest trees, bearing its curious pitcher-shaped flowers near the ground only; its leaves are said to be good food for cattle.