The museum report : a descriptive list of the donations for the years 1895-1902.

  • Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Date:
1903
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Credit: The museum report : a descriptive list of the donations for the years 1895-1902. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    S. purpurea, L'nm., var. minor. [Salicaccd.) a. L. i\. S. vitellina, Li)iii. a. L. fl. Xoti'.—These specimens represent the plants used in Jowett and Potter's experiments on the salicin contents of willow barks, the S. intrpHiia, Linn. /'. being the species described without name as narrow leaved. See Year-book of Phari)ian/, 1902, p. 48B. Salvia Chia, La IJarr. {Lawianur.) a. L. fl. Cultivated, Cambridge. R. I. Lynch. Xotc.—Aiiwr. Jniini. r/tarn/., 1882, p. 23. Li Pharm. Me.vicana, 1896, p. G4, Chia seed is referred to ■'Salvia /loh/starhija, Orteg, and N. ('idionbari^r, Benth. The plant was grown from ]\[exican seed sent from this INIuseum to Cambridge Botanic Gardens. Sambucus Canadensis, iw'^;?;. {CaiirifoUaceo.) a. L. fl. ft., New Jersey. Dr. H. H. Rusby. Xotc.—The flowers are official in the V.S.P. Sapium Jenmani, Hcwd. {Kitj>h())hiarc(r.) a. Li. Bogota. R. Thomson. Sapium verum, Hnnsl. a. Li. Bogota. R. Thompson. Xote.—This is the Sapium species of the Miisrum Picport of 1895, p. 87. It has been described in the IconeH Plantaruvi, No. 2647, from perfect specimens. It yields an excellent India-rubber known as Virgen. Sciadopitys verticillata, Sieh. ft Zucr. [Pinacea-.) a. L. Cultivated, Falmouth. Miss Fox. Smilax leucophylla, Bl. {Liliaccn.) a. Li. ft., Singapore. H. N. Ridley. Solanum chenopodinum, F. v. Mndl. {Solanacoa'.) a. Li. fl. ft., Queensland. Dr. E. B. Ormerod. xVofc—See Pharm. Jonrn. [4], XIV., p. 174. The plant is used in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, for dysentery or enteritis. Sphseranthus Africanus, Linn. {Aateracccc.) a. Li. fl., Singapore. H. N. Ridley. Note.—Used for toothache, like Spilanthns oleraceus.