33o 
Pharmaceutical  A ssociation. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1897. 
meeting  will  be  held  at  Buena  Vista  Hotel,  Franklin  County,  Pa.  The  time 
will  be  reported  later,  as  it  will  be  a  joint  meeting  with  the  Maryland  Pharma- 
ceutical Association,  which  will  convene  in  its  own  State,  just  across  the  Mason 
and  Dixon  line.  F.  B.  Flemmings,  of  Shippensburg,  was  appointed  local  sec- 
retary. The  delegates  to  the  State  Medical  Society  reported  that  samples  of 
about  2,000  preparations  had  been  exhibited  before  the  meeting  of  this  body  in 
Pittsburgh.  It  was  evident  that  this  committee,  of  which  Prof.  Louis  Emanuel 
was  chairman,  had  done  a  great  work  toward  attracting  the  attention  of  the 
members  of  the  foregoing  society  to  the  preparations  of  the  United  States  Phar- 
macopoeia and  the  National  Formulary.  Prof.  Emanuel  proposed  that  a  com- 
mittee be  appointed  to  consider  the  feasibility  of  establishing  a  literary  bureau 
from  which  printed  matter  on  National  Formulary  and  other  preparations 
might  be  drawn  for  distribution  among  physicians,  for  the  purpose  of  combat- 
ting the  advertisements  of  copyrighted  articles.  This,  and  the  other  consider- 
ation of  copyrighted  articles,  were  referred  to  a  committee  composed  of  Messrs. 
Stedem,  George,  Emanuel,  Redsecker  and  Kennedy.  During  the  discussion 
which  followed  the  last  report,  F.  W.  E.  Stedem  proposed  a  mixture  of  the 
spirit  of  orange  of  the  National  Formulary,  and  glycerin  in  equal  quantities, 
as  a  vehicle  for  bromoform  ;  its  advantages  are  pleasant  taste  and  solvent 
power  on  the  medicament.  Prof.  Emanuel  moved  that  Prof.  Beal's  ideal  phar- 
macy law,  which  was  distributed  among  the  State  associations  and  boards  of 
pharmacy,  by  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  be  referred  to  the 
Committee  on  Legislation.  It  was  so  ordered.  The  auditing  committee  approved 
the  treasurer's  report.    The  presenfation  of  papers  then  followed. 
"  The  Flora  of  Bushkill  Falls"  was  the  title  of  a  paper  read  by  Adolph  W. 
Miller,  M.D.,  Ph.D.  This  contribution  was  an  account  of  a  botanizing  tour 
made  by  the  Philadelphia  Botanical  Club  and  the  Torrey  Botanical  Club,  of 
New  York,  through  the  district  of  Bushkill,  Pike  County,  Pa.,  on  May  28th  last. 
Dr.  Miller  was  one  of  the  party  which  explored  this  rich  region.  He  called 
particular  attention  to  the  following  plants  :  the  American  yew,  the  gold 
thread,  Rhododendron  maximum,  R.  nudiflorum,  R.  canescens,  Kalmia  latifolia, 
K.  angustifolia,  Vacineum  stamineum,  Cypripedium  hirsutum  (formerly  called 
C.  pubescens),  Orchis  spectabilis,  Cystopteris  bulbifera,  Camptosorus  rhizo- 
phyllus,  Osmunda  struthiopteris,  many  forms  of  the  Napoleon  flower,  and 
Scrophularia  leporella  (recently  separated  from  S.  nodosa  by  Bicknell). 
Attention  was  also  called  to  the  abundance,  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  Tarax- 
acum erythrosperma,  Andrz,  which,  until  quite  recently,  was  included  in  the 
official  species,  the  Taraxacum  officinale,  although  it  was  described  as  early  as 
1821,  by  Anton  Andrzejowski,  whose  name  is  attached  to  it.  It  differs  in  many 
particulars  from  the  official  plant,  notably  in  the  color  of  its  acheues,  which 
are  crimson,  bright  red  or  reddish-brown,  whence  it  received  the  title  "  erythro- 
sperma." Its  pappus  is  slightly  tawny,  or  dirty  white  in  color  ;  its  leaves  are 
far  more  deeply  divided  into  narrowly  triangular  segments,  and  the  whole  plant 
is  rather  smaller  in  size  than  the  Taraxicum  officinale.  While  a  head  of  the 
latter  may  be  made  up  of  160  to  170  individual  florets,  one  of  the  red  seeded 
species  does  not  contain  more  than  70  to  80.  The  head  itself  is  smaller,  being 
scarcely  an  inch  in  diameter,  and  the  fruiting  receptacle  is  rarely  more  than 
one-quarter  inch  broad.  There  seems  to  be  also  a  slight  difference  in  the  color 
of  the  head,  that  of  the  Taraxacum  erythrosperma  being  rather  more  of  a  sul- 
