54 A COMPENDIUM OF 
Europe; also at Mitcham, England, and some 
parts of Texas, United States. The ep i 
herb grows to the height of 4or 5 feet (1% . 
1% meters), with leaves ending in an odd _— 
let (imparipinate), and as a rule the leafle ' 
number 13, being oval and emarginate, an 
viscid on their under surfaces, Flowers distant, 
of a pale-blue color, and terminate in axillary 
Tacemes, with ro stamens; organs diadelphous, 
with an ovate compressed legume, hence the 
order Leguminose Papillionaceze. ‘The part of 
the plant used in medicine is the root, the 
&lycyrrhiza radix, which occurs in the stores in 
pieces of about 12 inches (30 centimeters) long, 
cylindrical in shape, and from 4 to 1 inch (5 to 
25 millimeters) thick; externally of a gray- 
brown color, and wrinkled, and internally of a 
tawny yellow; elastic and tough, and when 
broken the fracture is coarse and fibrous. The 
wood is dense but occasionally porous, showing 
a small central pith; taste is sweet and sharp. 
The different varieties are the Italian, Spanish, 
and Turkish, all of which fina their way into 
_the drug market, and much of the Glycyrrhiza 
lepidata that is found growing in the South- 
western States is, no doubt, manufactured into 
the solid and fluid extrac 
ts, having the general 
characteristics of the Eur. 
: opean variety. 
Licorice root contains 
are solid, powdered, 
and fluid extracts, besides 
