: i DEL—DEL 
— 3. DELPHINUM ELATUM—resembles i it—is narcotic. 
4, And another species, indigenous, called in Tennessee, 
Staggerweed—is narcotic. 
33, 4, would be good subjects for an inaugural thesis—se- 
parately considered, or all together as a monograph of this 
—— deleterious genus. 
No, 226.—Detpnia. Delphina or Delphinina. 
he first name. Delphine, or Delphinine. 
sali, being the proximate principle of the seeds of No. 
= iy Discovered, in 1819, by MM. Fenuelle and Las- 
saigne. Their analysis ‘of stavesacre seeds was as follows:— 
1, Volatile oil, a trace. 
A yellowish fixed oil. 
rown bitter principle, not precipitable by the 
= of lead. 
4. A yellow bitter principle, not precipitable by the 
" cesieiiirs sof Siete Sipe ghar 3 é 
.5. Malate of Delphia. 
6. Incrystallizable sugar. 
7. Gum, 
8. Woody fibre. 
9. ‘Aatinas matter, inscluble in spirit of wine, precipita- 
ble by acetate of lead, and infusion of galls. 
10. Albumen. 
U1. Salts, with a base of potass and lime. 
Mr, Brandes’ analysis of the same seeds, is as follows:— 
1. Fixed oil, very ‘soluble in spirit of wine, 14.4. 
2. Fixed oil, sparingly soluble in spirit of wine, 4.7, 
3. Fatty matter, analogous to cetine, 1.4. 
4. Delphia, 8.1. 
5. Gum, with traces of phosphate of lime, pa of a 
vegetable salt with a base of lime, 3.15, — 
6. Fecula, 2.4. cm ae 
_ Woody fibre, 17,2. é 
8. Phyteumacolle, with malate, ac 
hydrochlorate of potass, and a 
lime, 30.67. 
9, Vegetable albumen, 0.5. 
20. Concrete oy ci i, 
ath Sulphate of lime, with phosphate of esia, 3.62. _ 
12. ‘Water, 10,0. : eo 
13. Excess, 1.49. 
Quarrrizs or Detenta. A white powder, crystalline when 
~~ “Moist, opaque on exposure to air; inodorous; first taste 
= “Dileigie-, acrid, Nearly insoluble in water; alcohol 
and ether dissolve it. The alcoholic solution turns syrup 
ith a base of 
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