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The book should thus be of interest and value to every one in- 

 terested in American botany. It is, however, more especially in- 

 tended to meet the practical needs of the retail druggist^ who is of- 

 ten called upon to supply some root, bark or herb of which only an 

 unfamiliar popular name is known to the customer. For the benefit 

 of the druggist also the pharmacopoeial names are given of all drugs 

 official in the United States, Great Britain, Germany and France, 

 and also the unofficial Latin as well as the vernacular German, 

 French and Spanish names of the several drugs or plants. Medicin- 

 al properties are also succinctly stated. 



The greatest care has been taken to render the book accurate 

 in its scientific information and complete and authentic in itssynon- 

 omy. A copious index serves as a key to this mass of information, 

 enabling the reader to turn instantly to the desired ])aragraph. 



Laboratory of NELSON, BAKER & CO. 

 January, 1900. 



