[28] Libro della Agricultura, Venet. (1511) lib. vi. c. 108.

[29] Clavis Sanationis, Venet. 1510.

[30] Ann. de Chimie et de Phys. lii. (1833) 352.

[31] The platinic compound is in fine microscopic crystals.

[32] Pharm. Journ. vi. (1865) 405, and vii. (1877) 1043.

[33] We use the word root as most in accordance with the teaching of English botanists.

[34] Journal de mon troisième voyage en Chine, i. (Paris 1875) 367.

[35] F. Porter Smith, Mat. Med. and Nat. Hist. of China, Shanghai, 1871. 2, 3.

[36] Pliny, lib. xxvii. c. 76, also xxv. 25.

[37] The Physicians of Myddvai; Meddygon Myddfai. Published for the Welsh MSS. Society. Llandovery, 1861. 282, 457.