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Powdered  Vegetable  Drugs. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  December,  1898. 
GROUP  NO.  5.    COLOR  REDDISH. 
Kino,  Cochineal  (black),  Cochineal  (gray),  Lupulin  (old),  Macis, 
Myristica,  Capsicum,  Crocus,  Carthamus,  Santalum  rubrum,  Kram- 
eria,  Sanguinaria,  Pine  shavings,  Breakfast  cocoa,  Illicium,  Sassafras, 
Lupulin  (new),  Rosa  gallica,  Pulv.  Rhei.  Comp.,  Hufland's  Baby 
Powder. 
I.    ANIMAL  FRAGMENTS  (TEST  BY  BURNING)- 
490.  Cochineal. — Carmine  red  color  .in  mounts  of  glycerin  or 
glycerin  -f  chloral. 
II.    VEGETABLE  FRAGMENTS. 
A.     CONTAINING  STARCH. 
a.  Containing  calcium  oxalate  crystals. 
491.  Krameria. — See  No.  279. 
492.  Hufland's  Baby  Powder. — Fragments  of  Rheum,  MgO  and 
sugar.    See  No.  278. 
493.  Pulv.  Rhei.  Comp. — Fragments  of  Rheum,  ginger  and  MgO. 
See  No.  257. 
b.  Few  or  no  Calcium  oxalate  crystals. 
494.  Cocoa. — See  No.  386  and  545. 
495.  Capsicum. — See  No.  306. 
496.  Myristica. — Starch  grains  (5-7  generally  in  groups ;  nu- 
merous oil  globules;  parenchyma  and  "Hullperisperm,"  with  reddish 
colored  contents;  in"  Hullperisperm"  some  prismatic  crystals;  some 
tetragonal  or  prismatic  crystals  (5  x  10  /jl)  of  myristic  acid,  which 
are  soluble  in  KOH  ;  heat  powder  in  chloral  get  tabular  or  acicular 
crystals.  Myristica  distinguished  from  Mace  in  that  latter  has  no 
starch,  and  on  treatment  with  KOH  the  secretion  cells  of  Mace  are 
colored  blood- red,  whereas,  Myristica  becomes  brownish. 
497.  Sangidnaria. — See  No.  312. 
498.  Sassafras. — See  No.  313. 
B.     WITH  LITTLE  OR   NO  STARCH. 
a.  Containing  Calcium  oxalate  crystals. 
499.  Cocoa. — See  No.  386  and  545. 
500.  Illicium. — See  No.  356. 
501.  Santalum  rubrum. — Hexagonal  or  coffin-shaped  crystals 
(15  x  25  /jl)  in  crystal  fibres;  long  sklerenchyma  fibres,  10  /x  wide; 
