A text-book of organic materia medica : comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British pharmacopoeia with other non-official medicines . Fig. 4g.—Magnified view of one-half ofthe tran^^verse section of a Mealy (//(?«-dnras) Sarsaparilla. /. Outer cor-tical portion, covered by epidermis, a.(, d. Inner or mealy cortical Woody ring. f. Central , commonly called the pith. Fig. 50. -Magnified view of one-halfof the transverse section of a Non-Mealy (jyaiuaica) Sarsaparilla. />.Outer corlii al portion, covered by epi-dermis, «. Inner cortica


A text-book of organic materia medica : comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British pharmacopoeia with other non-official medicines . Fig. 4g.—Magnified view of one-half ofthe tran^^verse section of a Mealy (//(?«-dnras) Sarsaparilla. /. Outer cor-tical portion, covered by epidermis, a.(, d. Inner or mealy cortical Woody ring. f. Central , commonly called the pith. Fig. 50. -Magnified view of one-halfof the transverse section of a Non-Mealy (jyaiuaica) Sarsaparilla. />.Outer corlii al portion, covered by epi-dermis, «. Inner cortical Woody ring. f. Central cellularaxis, commonly called the pith. Kinds of Sarsaparilla.—Several kinds are known incommerce under the names of Honduras, Brazilian, Lisbon,Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexican, Guayaquil, etc. These maybe arranged in two divisions, as first suggested by Pereira,called Mealy Sarsaparillas and Non-AIealy Sarsa/^arillas. I. Mealy Sarsaparillas (fig. 49).—Under this headwe include those sarsaparillas in which starch is a veryevident constituent, and under it we ]ilace the kinds known sm!/ac,-<r.\ Mcal) aiid Nou-Mcnly


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