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The unpublished work cited in this paper was carried out at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS, Beltsville, Maryland where the author was previously employed. Sincere thanks are due to Dr. E.J. Peters, UDSA, ARS, Columbia, MO and Dr. M.M. Rao, University of Maryland, College Park, MD for their cooperation in this work. 

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Amylases are hydrolytic enzymes which catalyze the hydrolysis of starches and glycogens. In addition to their intrinsic importance in Now with Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland. 

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Monsanto Agricultural Company, 368 Purdue University, 433 Ricerca, Inc., 199 Rohm and Haas Company, 318 Schering AG West Germany, 328 Shell Agricultural Chemical Company, 36,209,241,401 Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., 340 U.S. Department of Agriculture, 151,226,260,273,388,409,433,445 University of Arizona, 353 University of Maryland, 273 University of Minnesota, 141 Upjohn Company, 251... 

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Hartwell s compendium in its entirety was originally included as part of a series, appearing as Bioactive Plants, Volume II. The first volume in the series was also published in 1982 as Bioactive Plants, Volume I, with the tide Medicinal Uses of Plants by Indian Tribes of Nevada by Percy Train, James R. Hendrichs and W. Andrew Archer. It was originally pubhshed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Maryland, in 1957. 

Another useful volume encompassing the territory is the Amazonian Ethnobo-tanical Dictionary, by James Alan Duke and Rudolfo Vasquez, published in 1994. This is the same Jim Duke, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Beltsville, Maryland, who wrote the Foreword to Jonathan Hartwell (1982). Many of the medicinal properties of select spedes are provided, hsting both common and scientific names, and annotated with descriptors POISON and TOXIC wherever they apply. The medicinal uses are as based on folklore. 

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