DE. STENHOTJSE ON LAEIXINIC ACID. 
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of which pyrogallic acid and pyrocatechine, the oxyphenic acid of Gerhaedt, are the only 
other members yet known. Larixinic acid is much less easily oxidizable than oxyphenic 
acid, which again is less easily oxidated than pyrogallic acid. Larixinic acid volatilizes 
at a much lower temperature than either of these two substances, from which it also 
differs in being a ready-formed proximate principle, and not an educt. 
Addendum . — In consequence of the extremely feeble, if not somewhat doubtful, acid 
properties of the so-called larixinic acid, perhaps the name Larixine would be more 
appropriate ; but in that case the name of pyrogallic acid should be altered to pyrogal- 
Jine, and that of oxyphenic acid to pyrocatechine the name originally given to it by 
ZWEXGER. — J. S. 
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