3G STRONG DRINK AND TOBACCO SMOKE. 



cells {h), which enclose the albumen {e), here seen full of 

 minute starch grains; at (/) are three cells of the 

 albumen freed from starch to exhibit the pores on 

 their surfaces. 



Grains of Paradise (Plate 7, figs. 3, 4, 5) find their 

 legitimate use in the pharmacopoeia of the veterinary 

 surgeon, but they have been extensively used to give 

 an artificial strength to spirits, beer, wine, and vinegar 

 ■ — a curious perversion, as it seems to us, of the Afri- 

 can's favourite spice, with which he seasons his food. 

 Fio-ure 3 represents a grain magnified six diameters. Its 

 surface is rough, and shining reddish brown, the thin 

 end of the corn being of a pale yellow. The outer 

 coloured skin consists of a series of cells, with curiously 

 undulating walls, highly coloured, which overlie a series 

 of thin-walled long cells placed at a right angle to 

 them. To this succeeds the woody portion of the shell, 

 consisting of very short, double-pointed, channeled cells 

 id), amongst which lie the branched ligneous cells {e). 

 Amongst the woody fibres occur the large coloured oil 

 reservoirs, or cysts, from which some globules of oil or 

 resinous matter have been expelled. 



Datura Stramonium (Plate 7, figs. 6 and 7), the seed 

 of the thorn apple, a native of Greece. It is of the 

 same family as the tobacco plant, and, like it, is 

 highly narcotic in its properties. Its legitimate use is in 

 medicine, administered in very minute doses, either 

 as the dried leaf or powdered grain. Death has resulted 

 from smoking the leaves. The seed, when finely 



