Scientific and applied pharmacognosy intended for the use of students in pharmacy, as a hand book for pharmacists, and as a reference book for food and drug analysts and pharmacologists

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Title: Scientific and applied pharmacognosy intended for the use of students in pharmacy, as a hand book for pharmacists, and as a reference book for food and drug analysts and pharmacologists
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Kraemer, Henry, 1868-1924
Subjects: Pharmacognosy
Publisher: New York, Wiley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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duras andBelize; (2) Mexican sarsaparilla, yielded by Smilax medica, growingin Mexico, and exported from Vera Cruz and Tampico, and (3)Jamaica or Central American sarsaparilla, derived from Smilaxornata, growing in Colombia (South America), Costa Rica andNicaragua, and shipped to Jamaica, whence it is exported—chiefly to London. There is also a native Jamaica sarsaparilla whichis obtained from plants cultivated in Jamaica. The Honduras andMexican varieties are chiefly used in this country. Description.—Honduras Sarsaparilla.—In bundles (Fig. 39)about 1 M. in length and from 8 to 15 cm. in diameter, consistingof the long, folded roots, and rhizomes, bound together by roots ofthe same plant or stems of some other plant, the ends of the bundlesrarely being trimmed at the present time; roots about 2 M. long anduniformly about 2 to 6 mm. in diameter; externally dark or reddish-brown, longitudinally furrowed, minutely hairy and having slender 100 SCIENTIFIC AND APPLIED PHARMACOGNOSY A
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Fig. 38.—Aletris. A, transverse section of rhizome showing epidermis (E); cor-tical parenchyma containing either starch grains (S) from 0.002 to 0.010mm. in diameter or raphides of calcium oxalate (Ca) from 0.015 to 0.035 mm.in length; endodermis (En) more or less distinct in the living plant but usuallynot well-marked in the drug; fibrovascular bundles composed of tracheae (T)and sieve (L); sclerenchymatous fibers (Sc). B, transverse action of rootshowing epidermis (E); cortical parenchyma containing starch (S); endo-dermis (En) consisting of thick-walled reddish fibers; tracheae (T); scler-enchymatous fibers (Sc); sieve (L). C, isolated short, porous sclerenchy-matous fibers from the rhizome.—Drawn by Haase. SARSAPARILLA 101

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