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liable to admixture and a clean and well-preserved article would 
be well received. The great difficulty experienced in securing 
conium of full activity would give a great advantage to the 
producer of a perfectly reliable article. (Bull 
Agriculture 26: 11; Farmers’ Bull. 66 
Anise, Pimpinella Anisum L. 
is is a similar fruit to the last, nas related and grown 
and harvested in the same way. It is rather doubtful if it 
would do well so far north as New York. 
Aspipium or Mate FERN, Dryopteris Filix-mas (L.) Schott. 
This is a very important i and is eae used. The 
commercial article is very poor, in most cases. A brand known 
ice 
It would doubtless grow in any rich soil in this vicinity. (Bur. 
- Ind. Bull. 10 
SANTONICA, Artemisia pauciflora (Ledeb.) Weber. 
This is the immature flower heads of Artemisia pauciflora 
of Turkestan. It is rather doubtful if it will grow in this im- 
mediate vicinity, but the experiment is worth trying, if seeds 
can be obtained, which will ies a anual fot cae gee The 
drug is used in tive 
constituent, santonin. For two years past, the genuine has 
been very scarce and high. Large shipments of a spurious 
variety have been rejected and ordered reshipped out of the 
country. The subject is one of great interest. 
ErGot, Claviceps purpurea (Fries) Tulasne. 
This is a parasitic fungus, replacing the grain of rye. A 
pound of it is worth about as much as two bushels of rye. The 
practicability of getting it established upon rye in this country 
is problematical, although not very doubtful. Experiments 
are we i 
CannaBis Inpica, Cannabis sativa L. 
This is a very largely used drug, but at present the use ‘s 
permitted of only that grown in the East Indies. The question 
