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A  Symposium. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
April,  1904. 
The  following  are  adapted  to  moderately  moist  mountain  situa- 
tions :  Eucalyptus  coriacea,  E.  eugenoides,  E.  gunnii,  E.  leucoxylon, 
E.  obliqua,  E.  piperita,  E.  rudis  and  E.  Stuartiana. 
The  following  are  adapted  to  regions  dry  and  hot  during  the 
summer  and  frosty  during  the  winter  :  Eucalyptus  corynocalyx,  E. 
hemiphloia,  E.  leucoxylon,  E.  miaotheca,  E.  polyanthema,  E.  rudis, 
E.  tereticornis  and  E.  vimiualis. 
The  following  are  adapted  to  cultivation  on  alkali  soils  :  Euca- 
lyptus comuta,  E.  robusta  and  E.  rostrata. 
The  eucalypts  which  are  growing  and  fruiting  at  the  present  time 
in  the  United  States  serve  the  following  uses  :  Forest  cover,  wind- 
breaks, shade,  fuel,  posts,  railway  ties  and  other  underground  pur- 
poses, piles,  street  paving,  telegraph  poles,  shipbuilding,  vehicle 
•making,  agricultural  implements,  furniture  and  cabinet-making,  etc. 
The  following  species,  growing  in  the  United  States,  are  useful  as 
a  source  of  either  oil,  kino  or  honey  :  (ci)  As  a  source  of  oil :  E. 
amygdalina,  E.  eugenoides,  E.  globidus  and  E  rudis.  (b)  As  a  source 
of  kino :  E.  calot>liylla,  E.  corymbosa,  E.  rostrata,  E.  siderophloia 
and  E.  sideroxylon.  (c)  As  a  source  of  honey:  E.  calopkylla,  E. 
citriodora,  E.  corynocalyx,  E.  hemiphloia,  E.  leucoxylon,  E.  longi folia, 
E.  melliodora,  E.  pihdaris,  E.  polyanthema,  E.  rostrata,  E.  rudis,  E. 
sideroxylon  and  E.  tereticornis. 
A   SYMPOSIUM   ON   THE   MEANING  OF  THE  TERMS 
PHARMACOLOGY,   PHARMACOGNOSY,  MATERIA 
MEDICA  AND  RELATED  TERMS. 
[Continued from  p.  145.) 
Owing  to  the  recent  developments  in  the  study  of  pharmacology, 
and  also  owing  to  the  confusion  which  seems  to  exist  in  the  minds 
of  a  good  many  people  in  regard  to  the  meaning  of  this  and  other 
terms,  applied  in  the  study  of  drugs  and  medicines,  it  occurred  to 
the  editor  of  this  Journal  that  it  would  be  interesting  and  profitable 
to  have  these  terms  defined  according  to  their  modern  acceptation 
and  uses ;  and  with  this  end  in  view  letters  have  been  sent  to  a 
number  of  physicians,  and  professors  in  these  branches,  in  various 
parts  of  the  country.  The  first  installment  of  replies  was  published 
in  our  March  issue  and  the  remainder  follow  in  the  order  of  the  dates 
on  which  they  were  written  or  received  : 
