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up, so that the actual crop-yielding area in 1911 is about 600 dessiatines 

 less than it was in 1910. The total yield of the present season's crop 

 is estimated at from 125 to 150 wagons, as compared with 300 wagons 

 in 1910. These particulars should convince everybody concerned that the 

 position of the anise market must be described as exceptionally firm, 

 and that within the coming months higher prices may be looked forward 

 to with certainty. 



Maria Theresa Bruzzone 1 ) has observed a case of adulteration of 

 anise oil. While engaged in preparing Liq. amnion, anis. the alcoholic 

 solution of the oil turned ^highly turbid with ammonia, and on being left 

 standing the mixture gave a flocculent precipitate in large flakes. The 

 authoress believes the anise oil to have been adulterated with a desiccating 

 fatty oil. 



Apple Oil. When a little water is poured over green apple-peel, and 

 the material is distilled in a current of steam, according to a communi- 

 cation by C. Thomae 2 ), only a very small proportion of solid substance 

 passes over; sometimes a few drops of oil are formed, the greater part 

 of which rapidly solidifies. When the water of distillation is extracted 

 with ether, a solid mass is obtained, which crystallises when sprinkled 

 with alcohol. When the crystals are subjected to filtration a yellow oil 

 with an odour of apples is obtained. 



Oil of Artemisia biennis, Willd. From the withered and almost 

 faded herb of this North American Composita, F. Rabak 3 ) obtained by 

 distillation a yield of 0,03% of a deep brownish-red oil of sweetish aro- 

 matic odour and taste, which possessed the following properties: d 2 5o 0,893, 

 [ a ]D + 4,39°, n D30O 1,5181, acid v. 0, ester v. 16, ester v. after acetylation 

 60= 17,28° o alcohol Ci H 18 O. The oil dissolved with turbidity in 4 vols, 

 and more of 95° alcohol. It may perhaps contain methylchavicol. 



Oil of Artemisia serrata, Nutt. This species of Artemisia is also 

 a native of North America. Rabak 4 ) obtained from the green, flowering 

 plant 0,3°/o of a reddish-brown an oil of extremely bitter taste: d 25 o 0,913, 

 « D — 6,8°, n D30O 1,4602, acid v. 1,6, ester v. 10 = 3,5% ester CioH 17 C0 2 CH 3 , 

 ester v. after acetylation 43= 12,2% alcohol Ci H 18 O, soluble in one-half 

 its own vol. 80% alcohol. The oil probably contains thujone. 



Oil of Asarum europaeum. According to a note in the Milnchener 

 med. Wochenschrift 5 ) a few cases have been observed recently in which 



x ) Boll. Chim. Farm. 50 (1911), 468. 'Queued from Zeitschr. d. allg. osterr. Apoth. Ver. 

 49 (1911), 361. \ \l* ' 



2 ) Journ. f. prakt. Chem. II. 84 (1911), 247 < 

 *) Midland Drugg. and pharm. Review- 45 (1911), 283. 

 4 ) Midland Drugg. and pharm. Review 45 (1911), 283. 

 ") Munch, med. Wochenschr. 1910, 26. Quoted from Pharm. Zentralh. 52 (1911), 331. 



