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tional work ; as in the instances of Helleborus niger for 
Helleborus, and Veratrum album for Veratrum. But these 
longer names were necessary in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia, from 
the fact that two hellebores, and two veratrums were origi- 
nally recognised as officinal in that work. Two veratrums 
are still retained ; but as Helleborus foetidus has been dis- 
missed upon the recent revision, the single word Helleborus, 
as in the L. and E. Pharmacopoeias, now expresses the medi- 
cine, formerly called Helleborus niger. 
The system of concise names for vegetable medicines has 
generally been followed out by the L. and E. Pharmacopoeias, 
in the nomenclature of the new articles introduced into those 
works. In proof of this, we subjoin a list of new L. and E. 
officinals from the vegetable kingdom ; the names printed in 
italics having been previously adopted for the medicines they 
represent in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia: — Anethum, E., Can- 
na (Tous-les-mois) E., Chimaphila, L. (Pyrola, E.), Chiret- 
ta, E., Cubebae, E. , Cuminum, E., Curcuma, L.,E., Diosma, 
L. (Bucku, E.), Elemi, E., Ergota, L.,E., Euphorbium, E., 
Gossypium (raw cotton) E., Krameria, E., Lacmus, L.,E., 
Lactucarium, L., Lobelia, L.,E., Maranla, L.,E., Nux 
Vomica, L.,E., Origanum, E., Pareira, L.,E., Rhoeas, E-, 
Sabadilla, L.,E., Sago, L.,E., Tapioca, E. In the U. S. 
Pharmacopoeia, cubebs have been officinal, since 1S20, under 
the name, which they still retain, of Cubeba, and ergot, since 
1830, first under the name of Secale Cornutum, and on the last 
revision (1842) under the changed name of Ergota, to make 
it conform with the name under which it has been recently 
admitted into the officinal list of the L. and E. Colleges. 
Cubebs, when first introduced by the London College, (1824.) 
were called Cubeba, but subsequently (in 1836) was denomi- 
nated Piper Cubeba. This was an injudicious change ; for it 
violated the plan of brief names for vegetable medicines, ir- 
respective of botanical titles, which was adopted for the first 
time in the London Pharmacopoeia of 1836. 
In the additions which have been made to the vegetable 
Materia Medica of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia of 1842, the 
