MATERIA MED 1C A. 87 



CONNARACE^E. 



Cnestis glabra, Lam., is the < MORT AUX RATS' of 

 the Mascarene Islands. 



LEGUMINO&B. 



Ulex europ&uS) L., has been found by Mr. A. W. 

 Gerrard* to contain an alkaloid, ULEXINE, more 

 powerful as a purgative than SPARTEINE, obtained 

 from Cytisus scoparius> Link., whilst C. Laburnum, L., 

 contains two poisonous substances, CYTISINE and 

 LABURNINE, discovered in 1865 by Messrs. Huse- 

 mann and Marne. 



FENUGREEK, the seeds of TrigonellaFcenumgr&cum, 

 L., though still used in curry-powder, in cattle foods, 

 in veterinary medicine, and, from containing Cou- 

 marin, in adulterating inferior hay, is obsolete in 

 ordinary pharmacy. 



Astragalus gummi/tr, Labil., and other species in 

 Syria, Asia Minor, and Greece, have been shownf to 

 be the sources of that mucilaginous transformation of 

 medullary cells that constitutes the officinal GUM 

 TRAGACANTH, which is largely imported from 

 Smyrna. 



Glycyrrhiza glabra, L., the LIQUORICE, a native of 

 the Mediterranean area, cultivated at Mitcham, 

 Surrey, and near Pontefract, Yorkshire, and imported 

 to the extent of some hundreds of tons annually, from 



* ' Pharm. Journ.,' Aug. 7, 1886. 



f Boissier, 'Flora Orientalis,' ii (1872) ; ' Pharmacographia,' 

 p. 152 ; * Kew Guide,' p. 41 ; M. Giraud, 'Pharm. Journ./ 1878, 

 No. 405. Bentley and Trimen, ii, pi. 73. 



