The combination of positive ion and negative ion chemical ionization (PlC! and NICI) GC-MS of trimethylsilyl derivatives of pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) offers a rapid insight in the structure of such compounds in plant material [1,2].PlC!, using NH3 as the reactant gas, furnishes information concerning the molecular weight because of the presence of MH ions in a relatively high abundance; elimination of the necic acid produces a fragment which may carry a substituent at C7 of the necine base.NICI, with OH-as the reactant ion, cleaves the ester bounds, which may be present at C7 and C9 of the necine base or at the 13-C atom of the necic acid like trachelanthic/viridifloric acid.A number of other fragments originate according to a characteristic fragmentation pattern. This will be shown by means of the PICI and NICI mass spectra of a number of TMS derivatives of (un)known PAs, present in Symphytum species Anchusa officinalis L. and Eupatorium cannabinum L., from which conclusions can be drawn concerning the presence of 0, 1 or 2 (pyrrols) double bounds in the necine base, which is, in our examples, always esterified with trachelanthic/viridifloric acid at C9. In addition the location of acetyl, (iso)butyryl, angelyl/tiglyl and (iso) valeryl esters functions at C7 of the necine base or at the 3-C atom of trachelanthic/viridifloric moiety of the molecule can be unambiguously ascertained. References 1. H.Arnicae fibs DAB 9 originate from Arnica montana L. and Arnica chamissonis Less. ssp. foliosa (Nutt.) Maguire. Sesquiterpene lactones are the essential biologically active compounds (1). As further active compounds for local anti-inflammatory effect flavonoids have to be discussed (2). Furthermore flavonoid glycosides are used for examination of purity by TLC in DAB 9.Up to now the following flavonoid glycosides are known in flowers of both Arnica species: kaempferol-3f3-glucoside, quercetin-313-glucoside, luteolin-713-glucoside, and luteolin-713rutinoside (3-5). Besides these quercetin-313-glucogalacturonide was found in A. montana. In this paper the isolation and identification of other flavonoid glycosides in flowers of both Arnica species are described.Air-dried powdered flowers were extracted with MeOH (80%, 50%). The aq. methanolic extracts were concd. under red. pres. until only H20 remained, which was extracted with n-hexane, CHC13, and EtOAc. From the EtOAc extract flavonol glycosides were isolated using RLCC, followed by column chromatography (Polyclar AT, cellulose, silicagel 60, sephadex LH-20). The identity of the compounds was confirmed by melting point, UV spectroscopy, MS, 'H-NMR, and '3C-NMR. Hydrolysis was carried out on silicagel plates, additionally to the common procedures. Five flavonol glycosides have been identified in flowers of A. montana: spinacetin-313-glucoside (1), 6-methoxykaempferol-313-glucoside (2), patuletin-3f3-glucoside (3), isorhamnetin-313glucoside (4), and the already known kaempferol-313-glucoside (5). From flowers of A. chamissonis ssp. foliosa var. incana quercetin-3-(6"-O-...