General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . Jamaica Sarsaparilla. Honduras Sarsaparilla. a. Cuticle. b. Subcuticular tissue. c. Hexagonal cellular tissue. d. Cellular rin<* e. Woody zone. /.Medulla. The hexagonal cellular tissue abounds in starch.— (Christison?) roots scarcely equalling in thickness a goose-quill, and distinguishedfrom the other varieties by the red colour of the epidermis. It receivesthe name Jamaica sarsaparilla, owing to its being sent thither from Hon-duras. Occasionally, it is exported from Guatemala. This is the most \ 336 SPE
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . Jamaica Sarsaparilla. Honduras Sarsaparilla. a. Cuticle. b. Subcuticular tissue. c. Hexagonal cellular tissue. d. Cellular rin<* e. Woody zone. /.Medulla. The hexagonal cellular tissue abounds in starch.— (Christison?) roots scarcely equalling in thickness a goose-quill, and distinguishedfrom the other varieties by the red colour of the epidermis. It receivesthe name Jamaica sarsaparilla, owing to its being sent thither from Hon-duras. Occasionally, it is exported from Guatemala. This is the most \ 336 SPECIAL EUTROPHICS. esteemed variety in English pharmacy. 2. Honduras Sarsaparilla,Mealy Sarsaparilla, is exported directly from Honduras Bay, and someof it scarcely differs from Jamaica sarsaparilla. Generally, the roots arefolded, and formed into bundles two or three feet long, in which rootsare found of inferior quality, with stones, pieces of wood, &c. Thecolour is dirty or grayish-brown. The epidermis is thin, and within itis a thick, white, amylaceous layer, which gives i
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