ORUCIFERE. - ~ Sgqe 
watery distillate, but may be extracted therefrom by agitation 
* with benzene. Three-fourths of the crude product boiled at, 
_ 226°5°, exhibited the composition of pure a-toluonitril, phenyl- 
_ aceto-nitril, or phenyl-methyl cyanide, C° H® CH CN, and 
+ when heated to 200° for a short time with hydrochlorie acid, 
4 _ yielded phenyl-acetic acid. ‘The same composition is exhibited 
: _ by the volatile oil.of Tropeolum majus. Nasturtium officinale 
: _ yields by similar treatment an oil which may be separated from 
: the watery distillate by agitation with light petroleum ether, 
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specific ye of 10014 at 18° This ‘a was found 
by analysis to have the composition of phenyl-propionitril, 
~C°H*® CH?CH?CN; and on fusing it with potash, decomposing 
_ theresulting potassium salt with hydrochloric acid, and extract- 
ing with ether, ‘st wien acid was obtained in. long 
eedles melting at 47°. (Hofmann.) 
_ The fatty oil of Ores seeds is described by Schiibler as of 
_a brownish yellow colour, sp. gr. 0°924; it thickens and 
once turbid at 6° to 10°, and congeals at 15° toa yellow 
mass. It has a peculiar smell and taste, and dries slowly. 
Commerce.—Cress seeds are imported into Bombay from — 
Persia under the name of Assilia. Value, Rs. 34 per maund ~ 
. | of 373 ibs. : 
SISYMBRIUM IRIO, Zinn. 
Fig.—Eng. Bot. 1631; Reich., Ic. Fl. Germ.,t. 75, f. 4408, 
edge Mustard, London Rocket (Eng. ), Herbe aux Chantres, 
ortelle (Fr.), 
Hab.—Northern India, Persia, Europe. The socds. = 
Vernacular.—Khuibkalan (Hind. ), Khéksht (Pers., Bomb. 
an-tikhi (Mar.). 
History, Uses, be Phe is no. noti of 1 
the Hindu Materia Medica; Sets: ars to hay 
