Treaty with Honduras for Return of Stolen, Robbed, and Embezzled Vehicles and Aircraft

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...or trees, usually with an acrid, milky juice, which in some cases yields rubber. A volatile oil is found in the bark ofa few species, and a fatty oil is found abundantly in the seeds of other plants, as /2;/z'u1n and rz'cinus. QUEEN'S ROOT. QUEEN S DELIGHT. The root of Stillin gia sylvat ica Linne. Ger. ST LLINGIE. BOTANICAL CIIARAcTIzRIs'rIcs.--Slem herbaceous, I to 3 feet high. Leaves alternate, nearly sessile, oblong-lanceolate, finely serrate. F/owzr: monecious, in a terminal spike (the fertile flowers at the base), with saucershapecl glands at the base of each; stamens 2 or 3; sly: I; slzlgmar 3. Capsule 3-celled, 3-lobed, 3--seeded. HABI I A'I .--United States, from Virginia to Florida, in sandy soil. DESCRIPTION OF DRUG.---A subcylindrical root, 300 mm. (1 ft.) long, 25 to 50 mm. (1 to 2 in.) or more thick, slightly tapering and spar-ingly branched; compact; odor faint, peculiar, stronger and dis-agreeable when fresh; taste bitterish and pungent, persistently acrid. The color of the exterior surface varies considerably, due, probably, to the varied character of the soils in which the plants grow. Roughly speaking, the roots would thus be classified into light and dar/e stillin-gias. By the accidental removal of their outer bark the pinkish inner bark is exposed. Transversely the woody cortex is seen to occupy about one-half of the diameter of the root. Around this is disposed the thick bark containing numerous bast fibers separately imbedded in the parenchyma. The cambium line is composed of distinctly marked flat cells. Woody center radiate, through which numerous tracheids, arranged iII four or five radiating rows that are quite regular in their disposition....