Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Sept.,  1882. 
Gleanings  in  Materia  Medica. 
461 
Micromeria  Douglasii,  Benth.^  known  as  yerha  buena,  a  lal)iate 
plant  of  Northern  California  and  Columbia^  has  been  recommended  as 
an  anthelmintic,  emmenagogue  and  febrifuge.  The  drug  is  described 
by  Dr.  J.  Moeller  as  consisting  of  quadrangular  hairy  stems.  The 
leaves  are  opposite,  ovate,  short-petiolate,  obtnse,  coarsely  crenate,  \vith 
the  nerve  branches  running  to  the  margin,  and  with  sparse  tertiary 
branches;  the  upper  side  almost  smooth,  the  lower  surface  densely 
finely  pnnctate,  and  on  the  nerves  hairy;    the  largest  leaves  4  cm. 
inch)  long  and  3  cm.  inch)  broad;  the  upper  leaves  smaller 
and  more  acute.  The  axillary  pedicels  are  thin,  about  7  mm.  long ;. 
the  calyx,  mostly  detached,  is  elliptic,  4  mm.  long,  5  mm.  broad,  five- 
toothed,  many-ribbed,  hairy,  internally  naked,  and  contains  at  its  base 
4  nutlets.  The  drug  has  a  slight  aromatic  odor,  and  an  aromatic,, 
somewhat  bitter  taste. 
Micromeria  Douglasii.    a,  leaf  and  calyx,  natural  size,    b,  simple  baiiv 
magnified  300  diam.    c,  cuticle,  and  d,  gland,  magnified  300  diam. 
The  cuticle  on  both  surfaces  of  the  leaves  is  firm.  The  hairs  are 
firm,  conical,  mostly  two-celled,  and  rest,  witli  a  broad  base,  upon  the 
somewhat  prominent  parent  cell.  The  glands  are  contaiued  in  concave 
depressions,  are  depressed,  have  a.  simple  stipe  cell,  and  ccmtain  a  yel- 
low secretion. — Fhar.  Centralhalle,  1882,  No.  29. 
Eugenia  Cheken,  Molina. — From  Dr.  J.'  Moeller's  descri])tion  of 
cheken  leaves  we  take  the  following,  supplementing  that  given  ou 
[)age  351  of  this  journal.    The  leaves  are  stiff*,  but  not  fragile,  deli- 
