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Gleanings  in  Materia  Medica. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
X    August,  1883. 
acetic  acid,  and  the  solution  submitted  to  partial  precipitation  with 
ammonia  or  soda.  The  white  gelatinous  precipitate  became  yellow  on 
drying,  dissolved  readily  in  ether,  alcohol  and  chloroform,  had  no 
action  on  polarized  light,  and  formed,  with  acids,  amorphous  salts. 
The  solution  in  hydrochloric  acid  gave  precipitates  varying  from  grey 
to  brownish  yellow,  with  mercuric  chloride,  potassium,  ferro-  and 
ferridcyanide,  potassium  iodide,  sodium  phosphate,  sodium  and  ammo- 
nium chloride,  and  sodium  nitrate.  The  alkaloid  differs  from  quinoid- 
ine  in  optical  behavior,  and  in  its  platinum  double  salt  containing  less 
platinum ;  and  from  beberine  in  containing  more  carbon,  and  the 
double  compound  more  platinum. — Phar.  Jour,  and  Trans. ^  April  7, 
]883. 
Mountain  Sage;  Sierra  Salvia. — J.  Moeller  gives  the  following 
description  of  this  bitter  aromatic  drug;  the  stems  attain  about  the 
Leaf,  natural  size.  Flowers,  natural  size.  Involucral  scales,  magnified. 
thickness  of  a  quill,  are  somewhat  angular  woody  and  with  leafy 
branches.    The  leaves  are  short,  petiolate,  divided  antler-like,  the 
Hairs,  magnified  125  diameter.  t 
upper  ones  lanceolate  or  spatulate,  sessile,  scarcely  5  mm  (|-  inch)  long 
and  1  mm  inch)  broad.  The  erect,  nearly  globular  small  flower- 
heads  are  on  short  pedicels  in  the  axils  of  the  leaves,  either  single  or 
