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and Norway. It is sometimes called Trifolium offi- 

 cinale, a prominent proprietary preparation being 

 based on it, under the latter name. Trifolium pra- 

 tense, RED CLOVER, is also used in a proprietary 

 product. 



Melilotus is active on account of its content of 

 coumarin; it exists therein only in small quantity. 

 TONKA, Dipterix odorata, official in Japan and 

 Mexico, and used as a substitute for vanilla, also 

 contains coumarin. Liatris odoratissima, to be re- 

 ferred to presently, is a coumarin-bearer. 



COUMARIN is a pronounced narcotic which pro- 

 duces cerebral intoxication. It also influences the 

 heart, in large doses paralyzing it. 



Melilotus alba, WHITE MELILOT, is similar in 

 action to the yellow variety. 



Liatris odoratissima, VANILLA PLANT, DEER'S 

 TONGUE, before referred to as a coumarin-bearer, 

 is, to my personal knowledge, very largely used in 

 smoking tobacco and our nasty American cigarettes. 

 This weed is gathered and shipped to tobacco ware- 

 houses I have seen it there and demonstrated its 

 presence in fourteen brands of pipe and cigarette 

 tobaccos where it is incorporated to give a fine 

 aroma and to "dope" the product. 



Dr. Laurence Johnson, in "A Manual of the 

 Medical Botany of North America," says of it: 

 "The deleterious effects produced by smoking to- 

 bacco thus adulterated are much greater than those 

 produced by the consumption of pure tobacco in 

 even greater excess. The inhalation of a few whiffs 

 of the smoke from a cigarette made of this 

 adulterated material, provided the inhalations are 

 made in quick succession, produces a train of cerebral 



