About book....... Laboratory manual for Pharmacognosy is a book which covers the pharmacognostic characters of several crude drugs. This book helps the student to learn the synonyms, Latin name of the plant and to which family it belongs to. It also covers the brief description, chemical constituents, qualitative chemical tests, uses, substitutes and adulterants, microscopical characters of crude drugs which is helpful for evaluation of crude drugs. About author............. Dr. G.Sumalatha She is an accomplished researcher and teacher in Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry. She has more than 9 research publications in several national and international journals, 16 presentations. She guided 5 M. Pharmacy students.