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SECOND REPORT- 1832 . 
List of Indifferent Vegetable Principles. 
Names. 
Discovered by 
Picrotoxin. Boullay. 
Bryonin. Brandes. 
Piperin . Pelletier. 
Imperatorin ... 
Cathartin 
Cytisin . 
Zanthopicritin 
S cillitin . 
Senegin. 
Caffein .. 
Rhein e . 
Rhaeponticine.. 
Salicin 
Meconine 
Osann. 
{ LassaigneandFe- 
neuille. 
( Lassaigne & Che- 
[ valier. 
( Chevalier and Pel- 
\ letier. 
Vogel. 
Gehlen. 
/ Runge and Pelle- 
\ tier. 
Vaudin. 
Heerneman. 
Leroux. 
f Dublanc and Cou- 
\ erbe. 
Narceine .| Pelletier. 
Plombagin.j Dulongd’Astrofort. 
Hesperidin. Lebreton. 
Populin. Braconnot. 
Corticin. Braconnot. 
Columbin . Wittstock. 
Remarks. 
Cinin 
Santonin 
Arthanitin. 
Kahler and Alms. 
Alms. 
Saladin. 
Asparagine . ... Plisson. 
In the Menispermum Cocculus. 
In the Bryonia alba. 
C Car. H O 
<( 76-10, 10-27, 13-63. Henry and 
L Plisson. In pepper, 
f A crystalline principle, resembling 
<[ piperin, in the root of Imperatoria 
Ostruthium. 
A crystalline principle resembling 
senna leaves. 
A similar, bitter, purgative extrac 
tive matter, in Cytisus alpinus. 
A crystalline principle in Zantho- 
xylum carribcEum. 
A crystalline principle in Scilla 
\ maritima. 
Very like Scillitin. 
‘ C H N O 
39-8 + 6-6+20-8+32-8. Pfaff. In 
coffee. 
From the root of rhubarb, by ether. 
----—. by water. 
P4C+5H + 20 
< 55-49 + 6-38 + 38-13. Jules Gay- 
Lussac. The willow bark. 
C 9 C +9 H + 40 
< 60-247+4-756 + 34-997. Couerbe. 
In opiiun. 
f 16 C +24H+ 8 0 + N 
<| 54-73 + 6-52 +34-42+4-33. Pelle- 
L tier. In opium. 
Root of the Plumbago europcea. 
In pomegranates. 
In the bark of the poplar-tree. 
TThe colouring-matter of the same 
< bark; probably only a compound 
(_ of tannin and extractive matter. 
7C+7H + O 
66-36+6-17 + 27-47. Liebig. By 
<( alcohol from columbo-root ;—cry¬ 
stallizes in four-sided prisms with 
(_ rhombic bases. 
j Ciystalline yellow needles, by al- 
\ cohol, from semina cinas. 
'C=51-34+H = 9-76 + O = 38-9. 
Alms. From cinin by nit. or mur. 
acids. 
f In the roots of the Cyclamen euro - 
\ pceum and Primula Verts. 
f 6 C +12H+ 3 N + 40 
| 38-38 + 6-24 + 22-46 + 34-41. Henry 
and Plisson. This substance was 
| first found by Bacon in mallows, 
[_ and called Altlieine. 
