[2584] We have found that the slimy juice of the leaves of Agapanthus umbellatus Hérit., which is very rich in spicular crystals, also occasions when rubbed on the skin both itching and redness, lasting for several hours.
[2585] This is the name applied to the lævogyrate uncrystallizable glucose produced, together with crystallizable dextro-glucose, by decomposing cane-sugar by means of dilute acids.
[2586] In 1834 first proposed, by Marquart, for inulin.
[2587] In Greece they have even attempted to manufacture alcohol by fermenting and distilling squill bulbs.—Heldreich, Nutzpflanzen Griechenlands, 1862. 7.
[2588] Reprinted from the Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft der Aerzte zu Wien, No. 42 (1864). Abstracted also in Canstatt’s Jahresbericht 1864. 19, and 1865. 238.
[2589] Pappe, Floræ Medicæ Capensis Prodromus, ed. 2, 1857. 41.
[2590] Supplement to the Pharmacopœia of India, Madras, 1869. 250.
[2591] Saunders, Refugium Botanicum, iii. (1870) appendix, p. 12.
[2592] Suppl. to the Pharm. of India, 250.
[2593] Pappe, op. cit. 42.