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292. ARALIA NDDICATJLIS, L. (American Sarsaparilla, Wild or False 



Sarsaparilla, Small Spikenard.) 

 a. Root. Two specimens. 



Note. Official in secondary list of the U. S. P. It is used as a 

 diaphoretic and alterative, like Sarsaparilla. Amer. Dispens., p. 124. 



293. PANAX GINSENG, Mey. 



a. Root. (Ginseng Root.) 



Note. This specimen was brought from China by Mr. K. Fortune. 

 P. J. [2] , vol. iii., p. 332. By the Chinese this root is valued at its 

 weight in gold ; and most wonderful restorative properties are ascribed 

 to it. Dr. Porter Smith's Mat. Med. China, p. 103. 



294. PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUM, L. 



a. Root. (American Ginseng.) 



Note. This root is occasionally found accidentally mixed with senega 

 and with serpentary roots. Amer. Dispens., p. 596. Goebel und Kunze, 

 pt. ii., taf. v. fig. 1., a, b, c, e. 



COROLLIFLORJE. 



CAPRIFOLIACE^. 



295. SAMBUCUS NIGRA, L. 



a. Section of trunk. 

 6. Bark. 



c. Ditto, separated from flower stalks. 



d. Volatile oil, from the flowers. 



e. Ditto, dissolved in spirit of wine. 



Note. The bark is purgative. As sold on the Continent the flowers 

 usually have the stalk attached ; but in this country, except in some of 

 the provinces, without them. Treas. Bot., p. 1013. The leaves are used 

 to colour oleum viride and ung. sambuci viride, and the juice of the 

 berries to colour artificial wines. For detection of elder juice in wine, 

 see P. J. [3] , vol. i., p. 843. For volatile oil, Gmel. Chem., vol. xiv. 

 (1860), p. 368. See Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 137, 138. An 

 allied species, S. Canadensis, L., is official in the U. S. P. 



RUBIACE^E. 



2%. CEPHAELIS IPECACUANHA, A. Eich. (Poaya verdadeira, vel de 

 Botica, Brazil.) 



a. Root. Brown annulated ipecacuanha. 



b. Ditto. Blackish grey ditto. From Prof. Guibourt. 



c. Ditto. Brown non-annulated. See Per. Mat. Med., vol. ii., 



pt. ii., p. 58, fig. 8b. 



d. Ditto. Red annulated ditto. 



e. Ditto. Reddish grey ditto. From Prof. Guibourt. 



f. Grey annulated ditto. 



g. Ditto, with the rings not well developed. 



