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| | King's American Dispensatory, 1898: Heracleum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | 281) to be hardly distinct from Heracleum sphondylium, Linné, of Europe and Asia. |
 | | The fruits of all species of Heracleum thus far analyzed, abound in volatile oil, free ethyl and methyl alcohol and solid hydrocarbons of the paraffine series. |
 | | Gutzeit obtained 2 per cent of volatile oil, which was differentiated into 10 per cent of a mixture of ethyl-butyrate and acetate, and 55 per cent of hexyl-butyrate and octyl-acetale. |
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