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The annexed figure, which fhould have been given in the fir 
part of Medical Botany, is taken from a very perfed {pecimen in the 
Herbarium of Sir Jofeph Banks.* 
There is reafon to believe, that feveral red woods, capable of com- 
municating this colour to fpirituous liquors, are fold as Red Saunders; 
but the true officinal kind appears, on the beft authority, to be of this 
tree, which is extremely hard, of a bright garnet red colour, and 
bears a fine polifh. It is only the inner fubftance of the wood that is 
ufed as a colouring matter, and the more florid red is moft efteemed. 
On being cut it is faid to manifeft a fragrant odour, which is more 
efpecially perceptible in old trees. 
According to Lewis, this wood “ is of a dull red almoft blackith 
colour on the outfide, and a deep brighter red within; its fibres are 
_ now and then curled, as in knots. It has no manifeft fmell, and little 
or no tafte: even of extracts made from it with water, or with {pirit, 
the tafte is inconfiderable. To watery liquors it communicates only a 
yellowith tinge, but to rectified {pirit a fine deep red: a {mall quantity 
of an extract, made with this menftruum, tinges a large one of freth 
{pirit of the fame elegant colour ; though it does not, like moft other 
refinous bodies, diffolve in expreffed oils: of diftilled oils, there are 
fome, as that of lavender, which receive a red tin@ture from the wood 
itfelf, and from its refinous extra@, but the greater number does not.” 
Red Saunders has been efteemed as a medicine; but its only ufe 
attaches to its colouring property. 
The juice of this tree, like that of fome others, affords a fpecies 
of fanguis draconis. 
@ The fpecimen is accompanied with a pibce of the wood, which anfwers to the 
defcription here given. » M. M. 579. 
The medicinal glans of this order, which remain unnoticed, are 
Systematic NaMgs, | OrFicinaL, ‘EnGLisu; 
Lupinus albus Lupinus White Lupine 
Genifta canarienfis Rhodium lignum Rhodium Wood 
Ononis arvenfis Ononis” Reft-harrow 
Vicia Faba Faba  Garden-bean 
Ervum Lens Lentes ‘Lentil, or flat Tare 
Ervam Ervilia Ervum — : Officinal Tare 
Cicer arietinum, Cicer. ven Chick Pea 
‘Galega officinalis Galega eeteree 
‘Trifolium melilotus off, Melilotus heli 
Melilot Trefoil sy 
TRICOCCE. 
