SIMPLE POWDERED VEGETABLE DRUGS 119 



Very astringent Hamamelis 



Slightly astringent Eupatorium 



Odor tea-like. Dark green Thea 



Pungent 



Greenish brown (herb) Arnica 



Green. Aromatic odor Matico 



Not pungent or astringent Melissa 



Sweetish Scutellaria 



Slightly mucilaginous Senna 



Very acridly pungent. Sweetish (leaves) Aconitum 



Very astringent ". . . Castanea 



.... Odor camphoraceous, terebinthine 



Mint-like, characteristic Buchus 



Aromatic, not mint-like. Cat odor Eucalyptus 



.... Odor peculiar, ant odor (crushed) Melissa 



.... Nearly odorless 



Very astringent, sweetish, bitter, pungent Aspidium 



Not astringent, slightly pungent Coca 



LIGHT BROWN 



. . Odorless or odor slight 



Tasteless 



Very mobile Lycopodium 



Not mobile 



Mucilaginous or gelatinous 



Gelatinizes completely Tragacanth 



Mucilaginous, does not gelatinize, sweetish ! Pepo 



Not mucilaginous, sweetish Triticum 



With taste 



Very sweet Manna 



Bitter 



Extremely bitter 



Very light color Colocynth 



Pale straw yellow Quassia 



Moderately bitter 



Fibrous 



Yellowish Populus 



Grayish Chamaelirium 



Not fibrous Bryonia 



Bitter pungent 



Sweetish. Bitter-pungent taste faint 



Mealy. Grayish Taste faint (root) Belladonna 



Not mealy. Yellowish Convallaria 



Sweetish. Bitter taste marked 



Very light brown Euonymus 



Grayish (Somewhat narcotic when moist) Podophyllum 



Yellow tinge (Soil odor) Caulophyflum 



Not sweetish 



Very mucilaginous Scilla 



Not mucilaginous 



Very pungent Xanthoxylum 



