stramonium. 183 



p. 1014) the analyses of some native leaves grown under culti- 

 vation which raiiged from 0.420 percent to 0.710 percent of 

 alkaloids. These latter assays would seem to indicate that this 

 plant, which apparently thrives in this country in places where 

 nothing else will grow, may with care and cultivation be made 

 to produce a drug much superior to that which is imported 

 from Europe. 



From the data available it is evident that the American- 

 grown stramonium is equal if not superior to that grown in 

 Europe, and that if we continue to import this drug it is not 

 because of the superior product that we receive but because 

 of the economic conditions that exist in this country. 



University of Kansas, Lawrence. 



