American journal of pharmacy . the name of mirabilisjalapa. But he afterwards changed his opinion, and supposedit to be the convolvulus jalapa, which he thus describes, •Con-volvulus foiiis difibrmibus, cordatis angulatis oblongis lanceo-latisquc, caulc volubili, ])edunculis unilloris. The first writer by whom this celebrated drug was noticedwas Monard, who wrote, about tlie year 1570, a history inSpanish, of Remedies brought from America. He notices thedistinction between the jalap and mechoacan, of which latterplant he gives several plates. His description of the two rootsis clear and well d
American journal of pharmacy . the name of mirabilisjalapa. But he afterwards changed his opinion, and supposedit to be the convolvulus jalapa, which he thus describes, •Con-volvulus foiiis difibrmibus, cordatis angulatis oblongis lanceo-latisquc, caulc volubili, ])edunculis unilloris. The first writer by whom this celebrated drug was noticedwas Monard, who wrote, about tlie year 1570, a history inSpanish, of Remedies brought from America. He notices thedistinction between the jalap and mechoacan, of which latterplant he gives several plates. His description of the two rootsis clear and well defined, and may be seen in Coxes AmericanDispensatory, article jalap. Thiery do Meiionville, who visited the native country ofthe jalap in 1777, described a plant which he found growingnear Vera Cru/, and asserts ii to be identical with tliat fromwhich the jalap is obtained. This plant found to correspond in every particular withone whirli the elder Michaiix had sent to the Hotaqjc garden c XX- X. ?1 ^ ^ a (I FiR-.;).. .IPOMcIIiA I .HALAFA VKL mat;americanjournal02phil
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