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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
Official drug Part used 
Oleum Chenopodii Volatile oil 
Saccharum Refined sugar 
Unofficial 
Chenopodium Fruit 
Botanical name Habitat 
Chenopodium United States 
anthelminticum 
Beta vulgaris Europe 
Chenopodium United States 
anthelminticum 
Phytolaccacece. —A family of apetalous trees, shrubs, or woody 
herbs—the pokeweed family—with alternate entire leaves, and 
flowers resembling those of the goosefoot family {Chenopodiacece ), 
but differing in having the several-celled ovary composed of carpels 
united in a ring, and forming a berry in fruit. It embraces 21 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. 
Official drug Part used Botanical name Habitat 
Oleum anisi Volatile oil Illicium verum South China 
Unofficial 
Winter’s Bark Bark Drimys Winteri South America 
Ranunculacece 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 
