i74 PLANT AND ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 
accumulated from recent researches, since the publication of 
her article in the “Botanical Gazette,” and the discovery of 
saponin in many plants of widely different genera and family, 
seem to justify and confirm what was stated in the article 
referred to above, “saponin is invariably absent where the 
floral elements are simple; it is invariably absent where the 
floral elements are condensed to their greatest extent. Its 
position is plainly that of a factor in the great middle realm 
of plant life when the elements of the individual are striving 
to condense, and thus increase their physiological action and 
the economy of parts.” 1 
Loc. tit., Botanical Gazette . 
