“4162 FOMARTACER. 
~Glaucium flavum, Lichen islandicus, and> Boletus pseu 
_ by molecular transformation of maleic acid, namely, when thai 
Ann. ch. Phar., Suppl. ii, 85), and according to Multhausen 
_ oxidation of protein compounds by nitro-muriatic acid. - ( Wat 
by Hannon (J. Chem. Med. [3], VIIL., 705). The pla 
_ tion with the aid of heat; the salts ‘have a bitter tas 
alcohol, chloroform, -benzol, carbon bisulphide, -and amyl- 
. name.of Shahterah. “Value, about Rs, 4 per Surat maund 
:  Fom 
Chemical composition.—Fumitory contains—Ist, Fumaric 
acid, C*H* O}, an acid isomeric with maleic acid, differing 
from malic acid by containing 1 at. less of water, and from 
succinic acid by containing 2 at. less of hydrogen; it exists 
ready formed in several other plants, viz., Corydalis bulbosa, 
ignarius ; it is produced by the dehydration of malic acl 
acid is heated with hydriodic or hydrobromic acid (Keku 
(Ann. ch. Phar: ci.,171), is found among the products of t 
Diet. of Chemistry.) 
2nd, Fumarine, an organic base first. observed by Pesch 
(Iiebig, Organische chemie, p- 633), and more fully examinee 
s 
gathered while in full flower, contains from 5 to 6 per cent. 0! 
this base, to which it appears to owe its specific physiologi 
evaporation of its hot alcoholic solution, but not by evapora~ 
(Watts? Dict. of Chemistry.) According to Preuss, fumiarine 
crystallizes in irregular 6-sided, monoclinic prisms, soluble 
alcohol, sparingly soluble in water, insoluble in ether ; 
composition has not been determined, 
Commerce.—The drug is imported from Persia under ¢ 
873 Ibs. ~ 
Fe 
The medicinal plants of minor importance belonging to the 
seni eM ae 3° Sauce ieee 
ue Hypecoum procumbens, Linn. : Schk. lien L4 
Lin Sind, Afghanistan, and the Punjab salt range. — 
