84     Microscopic  Ex  animation  of  Vegetable  Drugs.  {K¥i*™£i?Xm?' 
bus  saepe  valde  disparibus.  Cellulae  suberosae  formam  orbis  ex- 
hibent,  sunt  quinquangulae  vel  sexangulae,  leptotichae,  membranis 
obscure  rubrofuscis,  Raphides  fere  45  fi  longae,  tenues,  interdum 
in  fasciculos  intra  cellulas  parenchymaticas  collectae.  Xylematis 
elementa  fibrosa,  pachyticha,  partim  scrobiculis  rimalibus,  partim 
scrobiculis  duplicibus  praedita,  in  pulvere  fere  nulla  adsint. 
Odor  corticis,  imprimis  cum  contunditur,  mucidus  ;  sapor  ingrate 
amarus.    Lignum  odoris  et  saporis  expers  est. 
Pulvis  Radicis  Ipecacuanhae  combustus  cineris  partes  centesimas 
1,8  ad  6  relinquat. 
If  the  practice  of  pharmacy  in  the  Netherlands  has  reached  that 
stage  of  advancement  indicated  by  this  book,  and  I  have  good 
reason  to  believe  that  it  has  from  a  short  sojourn  in  that  country, 
with  what  pride  must  the  pharmacist  practice  his  profession  !  Not 
only  is  the  book  of  the  highest  standard,  but  it  is  in  the  Latin 
language,  which  shows  the  standard  of  education  which  must  be 
attained  by  Dutch  pharmacists.1 
2.     THE  UNITED  SPATES  PHARMACOPOEIA. 
Shortly  after  the  1 900  convention,  Dr.  Rice,  chairman  of  the 
U.S. P.  Revision  Committee,  called  me  to  New  York  as  chairman  of 
the  Sub-committee  on  Botany  and  Pharmacognosy,  which  he  had 
appointed,  to  go  over  this  subject,  he  having  been  very  much  im. 
pressed  with  the  work  of  the  German  Commission,  and  in  order  to 
facilitate  the  work  in  our  own  revision  gave  me  this  copy  of  the 
German  Pharmacopoeia,  which  I  hold  in  my  hand. 
In  little  more  than  a  year  after  the  Convention,  the  chairman  of 
the  sub-committee  on  Botany  and  Pharmacognosy  presented  in  a 
preliminary  report  completely  revised  descriptions  of  the  vegetable 
drugs  for  the  consideration  of  the  general  committee.  To  indicate 
the  nature  of  the  work  that  was  done  we  select  here  as  previously 
the  part  relating  to  ipecac. 
IPECACUANHA .     Ipecac . 
The  dry  root  of  Uragoga  Ipecacuanha 
Baillon   (Fam.   Rubiaceae),   known  in 
commerce  as  Rio  Ipecac. 
1  A  paper  treating  of  the  subject  [ot  vegetable  drugs  as  set  forth  in  the 
various  foreign  pharmacopoeias  is  now  in  contemplation. 
