The first glycoside ever identified was amygdalin, by the French chemists Pierre Robiquet and Antoine Boutron-Charlard, in which year?
  • 1830

Digitalis, commonly called foxgloves, is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennial plants, shrubs, and biennials. The term digitalis is also used for drug preparations that contain glycosides, particularly one called digoxin, extracted from various plants of this genus. What type of glycosides exist in Digitalis?

  • Cardiac glycosides