Pharmacognostic Studies of Anagallis Arvensis L.

Abstract

The morphological, anatomical, histochemical studies including preliminary chemical and fluorescence analysis of the powders of leaf and stem is presented. Leaves are amphistomatic with papillate margins, Venation is palmate-acrodromous. Mesophyll ls undifferentiated. Stem is quadrangular with hypodermal collenchyma abundant in the ridges, -Vascular tissue is in the form of continuous ring with parenchymatous pith in the centre. Total ash is 23.35% of which 8.5% is acid insoluble and water soluble is 2.5%. Successive extractive values in different solvents and their reaction to various test reagents is given.