American journal of pharmacy . tar-anise into frogs and rabbits did not inducethe slightest abnormal symptoms. Am. Jour. PharmAug., 1881. I Illicium Religiosum and III, Anisatum. 415 Distinctions in odor, taste, chemical composition (the differentamounts of fats present, the poisonous constituent, etc.), and physiolo-gical action, cannot, from the point of view of the systematic botanist,contribute to characterize two plants as different species, since theseproperties, which possibly are due only to quantitative differences,may depend upon climatic conditions. Yamaraoto Boyo, author ofthe Hiak
American journal of pharmacy . tar-anise into frogs and rabbits did not inducethe slightest abnormal symptoms. Am. Jour. PharmAug., 1881. I Illicium Religiosum and III, Anisatum. 415 Distinctions in odor, taste, chemical composition (the differentamounts of fats present, the poisonous constituent, etc.), and physiolo-gical action, cannot, from the point of view of the systematic botanist,contribute to characterize two plants as different species, since theseproperties, which possibly are due only to quantitative differences,may depend upon climatic conditions. Yamaraoto Boyo, author ofthe Hiakushinko(1843), remarks upon this as follows: ^TheJapanese fruit resembles exactly the ^ hakkaku uikio (true star-anise)except in the smell; this difference is, however, a result of the influ-ence of locality and climate, exactly as in the case of Chinese cinna-momum. Planted in Japan this tree loses its pungent taste andacquires moreover the aroma of ^ shikimi. There remain conse-quently only the few morphological Illicium Religiosum.—Ill, Unripe Fruit. IV, Ripe Fruit. VI, Seeds. VIII, Section tlirough tlie Anisatum.—V, Fruit. VII, Seeds. IX, Section ttirough the testa. The author refers to the characters given by different writers fordistinguishing the fruits of the two trees, and shows that the differ-ences are probably connected with the age, the manner and time ofcollection, the conveyance, climate, etc. Meanwhile we cannot go fur-ther than to consider the Japanese ^shikimi no ki as a poisonous—probably only as a more poisonous—variety of Illicium anisatum,Loureiro. But from a hygienic point of view a distinction must be madebetween the Japanese and Cochin China star-anise as a commercialdrug. For pharmacognostically distinguishing the true star-anisefrom the fruit of shikimi the following characters can be taken inconsideration: 416 Borntrceger^s Aloes Test. ( Am. Juur. Pharm.\ Aug., 1881. Tkue Star-anise. Shikimi Fruit. Taste sweet, an
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