DKUGS. 

 Quercus infectoria. Olivier. Dyer's or Gall Oak. 



Linn. Sytt. Monoecia Polyandria. 



The gall, Nut galls. 



Vernacular. Majoophul, Sans. Hind. Maapul, Dec. Machakai, 

 Tam. Ufes, Arab. Mazoo, Pers. Pyeentagar-ne-thee, Burmah. 

 Majakanee, Malaya. 



Habitat. The Levant Anatolia, Karmania, Aleppo, Algezireh, 

 Kourdistan. 



Remarks. Hippocrates first mentions the nut gall under the name of 

 Agfa's. The East India Galls of commerce are Bussorah Galls re-exported 

 from Bombay. Mecca Galls are also Bussorah Galls. See also " Tans." 



N. 0. 220. CONIFERS. CONIFERS. 

 Cupressus sempervirens. W. Common Cypress. 



Linn. Syst. Monoecia Monadelphia. 



The cone. 



Vernacular. Suroo, Shujrudal, Sarass, Hind. Saruss, Beng. 



Sujrut-ul-hueyat (Tree of Life), Pers. 

 Habitat. Candia. Cultivated widely. 



Remarks. The Kvudpirros evades of Homer, wn-dpio-o-os of Theophrastus, 

 and Dioscorides, and the Gopher-wood, some insist, of which the ark 

 was built. 



Pinites succinifer. 



Linn. Sytt. 



The resin fossilized, Amber. 



Vernacular. Kepoor, Hind. Karooba, Pers. Hind. Dec. Umbir, 

 Tam. Kernulbehr, Inketreeyoon, Arab. Ambar, Malaya. Nambu, 

 Japan. Jantar, Russia. 



Situs. The Sea-beach of the Baltic, Cape Kohin, Sicily, Japan ? 

 Maryland. 



Remarks. Thales of Miletus, B.C. 600, noticed the electric property 

 of Amber. Dioscorides mentions it under the name of rj\KTpov as 

 probably the resin of the Black Poplar. It was the Succinum of the 

 Romans. The word fj\cK T pov occurs also in Hesiod, Homer, Herodotus, 

 and Hippocrates, but from the vagueness of their references it cannot be 

 positively ascertained that they mean amber, electron having also been an 

 ancient alloy of gold and silver. See " Gums and Resins." 

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