SANTALUM ALBUM. ORD. XVII. Bicornes. 287 
pay the trouble and expence of procuring it, especially unless the 
trees be old; while the white, which is the exterior part of the 
wood, is always more abundant, and is consequently much cheaper. 
** Yellow Saunders, distilled with water, yields a fragrant essen- 
tial oil, which thickens in the cold into the consistence of a balsam, 
approaching in smell to ambergris, or a mixture of ambergris and 
roses: the remaining decoction, inspissated to the consistence of an 
extract, is bitterish and slightly pungent. Rectified spirit extracts 
by digestion considerably more than water: the colour of the tinc- 
ture is a rich yellow. The spirit, distilled off, is slightly impreg- 
nated with the fine flavour of the wood; the remaining brownish 
extract has a weak smell, and a moderate balsamic pungency.”’* 
The wood is chiefly valued on account of its fragrance; hence 
the Chinese are said to fumigate their clothes with it, and to burn 
it in their temples in honour of their gods. Though still retained in 
the Materia Medica of the Edinburgh Pheitinseopcéia, it cannot be 
thought to possess any considerable share of medicinal power. 
Hoffman considers its virtues as similar to those of ambergris; and 
some others have esteemed it in the character of a corroborant and 
restorative. 
» Lewis, M. M. p. 578. 
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ARBUTUS UVA URSI. "TRAILING ARBUTUS; Or 
| : ‘BEAR-BERRY. 
ae ate ral hlicacieelitiec eee nant asammeteamananiiaetiaee 
A 
SYNONYMA. Uva ursi.. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Uva ursi. 
Clus. Rarior. Plant. Hist. p. 62. Vaccinia ursi sive Uva ursi 
apud Clusium. Gerard. Emac. p. 1416. J. Bauh. Hist. voi. i. 
p.523. Bauh. Pin. p.470. Park. Theat.p. 1457. Raii Synopsis, 
n. 457. Hist. p. 1489. sp. 5. Flor. Dan. 33. Murr. Comment. 
de Arbuto uva ursi. Gotting. 1764. Girardi Nove Animadver. 
Patavii 1764, Sandifort Dis. tab. 8. Withering. Bot. Arr. p. 428. 
