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The 2nd edition of Pharmacognosy (Part-II) is the conclusion of abundant efforts of authors to assimilate the voluminous knowledge of traditional and modern pharmacognosy, which has long been required for curricula of various universities. Considering all this wide-ranging information of the subject, it is a deliberate to contribute substantially to the world of pharmacognosists. This edition emphasises the biodiversity of plants and encompasses biosynthesis, extraction, isolation of compounds. The second part of this series is redesigned into seven chapters. Each chapter is written with the aim to give a reasonable background to academician and researchers in the respective topic. Chapters have been committed to provide information about resin, volatile oil, phytochemical screening, fibres, tannings, pharmaceutical aid and role of aromatic plants in economy. The objective of the authors is fully achieved by systemic gathering of the well written chapters with neat and clean well labelled diagrams wherever necessary.