324 PHARMACEUTICAL B OT AN Y 



Official drug Part used Botanical name Habitat 



Oleum Chenopodii Volatile oil Chenopodium United States 



anthelminticum 

 Saccharum Refined sugar Beta vulgaris Europe 



Unofficial 



Chenopodium Fruit Chenopodium United States 



anthelminticum 



Phytolaccacea. A family of apetalous trees, shrubs, or woody 

 herbs the pokeweed family vvith alternate entire leaves, and 

 flowers resembling those of the goosefoot family (Chenopodiacea) , 

 but differing in having the several-celled ovary composed of carpels 

 united in a ring, and forming a berry in fruit. It embraces 2 1 genera, 

 and 55 species, tropical and sub-tropical. 



Official drug Part used Botanical name Habitat 



Phytolacca N.F. Root Phytolacca North America 



decandra 



XI. Order Ranales. Magnoliacece or Magnolia Family. Trees 

 and shrubs having alternate leaves and single large flowers with 

 calyx and corolla colored alike. Sepals and petals deciduous, an- 

 thers adnate. Carpels and stamens numerous. Bark aromatic 

 and bitter. Fruit a collection of follicles dehiscing dorsally. 



Rammculacea or Buttercup Family. Herbs, rarely shrubs {Clema- 

 tis) with acrid, poisonous, watery juices and with alternate, rarely 

 opposite, simple, rarely compound, exstipulate leaves. Flowers 

 pentamerous, regular to irregular, incomplete to complete, apose- 

 palous and apopetalous. Sepals five rarely more or less green 

 to petaloid, regular, passing to irregular (Larkspur, Monkshood). 

 Petals none or five, regular to rarely irregular, often nectariferous 

 and with nectariferous petals often variously transformed. Sta- 

 mens indefinite, hypogynous. Pistil of many to few apocarpous 

 carpels, each carpel with one to several ovules. Fruit a collection of 

 achenes (Ranunculus, Anemonella), or a collection of follicles 



