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A concoction containing soapwort has been employed in France and 
Germany as an external application for the itch. — Kirtikar and Basu 
(230 , v. 1, p. 133). 
Extracts were not repellent to the Japanese beetle.- Metzger and 
Grant (277). 
SAPONARIA VACCARIA L. Synonym* Gypsophila vaccaria Sibth. & Sra* 
Cow soapwort* 
The mucilaginous sap was used as a soap by the natives of Sind, 
India, for washing clothes, and it was said to be a cure for itch.— 
Murray (290, p. 95). 
SILENE ANTIRRHINA L. Sleepy catchfly. 
STELLAR! A MEDIA (L.) Cyr. Synonym: Alsine media L. Common chickweed. 
Extracts were not repellent to the Japanese beetle.— Metzger and 
Grant (277). 
CELASTRACEAE 
(Staff-Tree Family) 
CELASTRUS ANGULATUS Max. Bitter tree. 
This plant is widely distributed in the Yangtze and Yellow River 
Valleys in China. Thirteen thousand plants were collected and trans- 
planted. The powdered leaves and root bark were effective against the 
cabbage beetle Fhaedon brassicae Baly. In field tests against the 
adults of another cabbage leaf beetle, Colaphellus bowring^i (Baly) , the 
powdered root bark killed 94 percent and an alcoholio extract of the 
bark, each in soap solution, 91 percent;, powdered leaves killed 92 per- 
cent and; an alcoholic extract of the leaves, 84 percent. This plant 
was also effective against Locusta roigratoria migratorioides (R. & F.).- 
China National Agricultural Research Bureau (90-92). 
The ground berk of this plant, common in northern China, was used 
as a dust or spray against garden insects in China. Extracts used as 
contact sprays, however, seemed to hnve no effect on aphids.— Shepard 
(563 , p. 300). 
CELASTRUS SCANDENS L. American bittersweet. 
Extracts were not repellent to the Japanese beetle.— Metzger and 
Grant (277). 
EUONYMUS AMERICANA L. Brook euonymuso 
