PLANT ANATOMY.’ 
In order to obtain a satisfactory knowledge of vegetable 
drugs, an accurate anatomical study of them is in most cases 
indispensable. This part of pharmacognosy is therefore based 
upon an acquaintance with the principles of plant anatomy. 
The following lines may serve for a preliminary acquaintance | 
with this very extended department, more complete information 
being contained in the text-books of anatomy.? The beginner 
should, nevertheless, continually bear in mind that anatomical 
_ study, unless accompanied by work with the microscope,* must 
always remain poor and deficient inits results. It would, there- 
1From ava and réure@ cut. 
*De Bary, ‘‘ Vergleichende Anatomie der Vegetationsorgane,” Leip- 
zig, 1877. The most comprehensive and fundamental work, which, 
with regard to the amplitude of its contents, can be compared with no 
other, An excellent English translation of this work bears the title: 
““Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams 
and Ferns;” by A. De Bary. Translated by F. O. Bower and D. H. 
Scott, 1884 (F. B. P.).—Sachs, ‘“ Lehrbuch der Botanik,” iv., Leipzig, 
1874 (at present only to be had through antiquarian book-sellers). An 
English edition of this work bears the title : ‘‘ Text-book of Botany,” by 
Julius Sachs. Translated by A. W. Bennett, assisted by W. T. T. Dyer, 
Oxford, 1875. Second edition, 1882. F. B. P.—Haberlandt, ‘‘ Physio- 
logische Pflanzenanatomie,” Leipzig, 1884.—Weiss, ‘‘ Anatomie der 
Pflanzen,” Vienna, 1878.—Leunis, ‘‘ Synopsis,” newly edited by Frank, 
One volume, Hannover, 1882, For our purpose, there may also be men- 
tioned: Hanausek, ‘‘ Anatomische, physikalische und chemische Ver- 
haltnisse des Pflanzenreiches, mit besonderer Riicksicht auf Waren- 
kunde und Technologie,” Hélder, Vienna, 1882, 
*In microscopic work, the following are very useful: E. Strasburger, 
“Das botanische Practicum,” Jena, 1884; and, by the same? author, 
“* Das kleine botanische Practicum,” Jena, 1884. 
