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Structure  of  Cimicifuga. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
March,  189-5. 
the  dried  form,  as  the  drug  occurs  in  the  market,  the  roots  are  much 
broken,  the]  rhizomes  are  blackish-brown,  hard  and  break  with  a 
smooth  or  a  somewhat  fibrous  fracture.    The  color  internally  is 
b 
Fig.  i. 
Fig.  2. 
much  lighter,  being  brownish  or  whitish.  The  roots  are  longi- 
tudinally wrinkled,  brittle,  and  in  cross-section  appear  obtusely 
triangular,  pentangular  or  most  commonly  quadrangular,  the  number 
of  angles  depending  upon  the  number  of  rays  in  the  meditullium. 
