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METHYL salicylate has been found to occur both in the free state1 and as the aglycone of a primeveroside, gaultherin2 in Gaultheria procumbens L. (Ericaceæ).
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IBRAHIM, R., TOWERS, G. Conversion of Salicylic Acid to Gentisic Acid and o-Pyrocatechuic Acid, all Labelled with Carbon-14, in Plants. Nature 184, 1803 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841803a0
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