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kinds of resin. Oil of turpentine, common and Burgundy pitch, are obtained 

 from Pinus sylvestris ; Hungarian balsam from Pinus Pumilio ; Bourdeaux 

 turpentine from P. Pinaster ; Carpathian balsam from P. Pinea ; Strasburg 

 turpentine from Abies pectinata (P. Picea L.), our Silver Fir ; Canadian bal- 

 sam from Abies balsamea, or the Balm of Gilead Fir. The common Larch 

 yields Venetian turpentine. Liquid storax is thought to be yielded by the 

 Dammar Pine ; and a substance called in India Dammar, or country resin, is 

 procured from the same plant, or from a tree which Dr. Buchanan calls Chlo- 

 roxylon Dupada. Ainslie, 1. 337. Sandarach, a whitish yellow, brittle, 

 inflammable, resinous substance, with an acrid aromatic taste, is said by Dr. 

 Thomson to exude from Juniperus communis ; but upon the authority of 

 Brongniart and Schousboe, it is the tears of Thuja articulata (or quadrivalvis.) 

 Ibid. 1. 379. The substance from which spruce beer is made is an extract of 

 the branches of the Abies canadensis, or Hemlock Spruce ; a similar prepara- 

 tion is obtained from the branches of Dacrydium in the South Seas. Great 

 tanning powers exist in the bark of the Larch ; as great, it is said, as in the 

 Oak. Ed. P. J. 1. 319. The stimulating diuretic powers of the Savin, Juni- 

 perus Sabina, are well known, and are partaken of in some degree by the com- 

 mon Juniper, the berries of which are an ingredient in flavouring gin. The 

 large seeds of many are eatable. The Stone Pine of Europe, the Pinus Cem- 

 bra, the Ginkgo, the Pinus Lambertiana and Gerardiana, the Araucaria Dom- 

 beyi, and Podocarpus neriifolia, are all eatable when fresh. The succulent 

 covering of the Yew fruit is foetid, and said to be deleterious by Decandolle ; 

 we all know that its seeds, if eaten, are highly dangerous. 

 Examples. Pinus, Cunninghamia, Araucaria. 



