ON THE GALLS OF TEREBINTHUS AND PISTACIA. 33 
in the History of Plants, by Bauhin (lib. iii, page 279,) 
one only and the same figure of the terebinth {Pistacia 
Terebinthus,) having, at the extremity of the branch, a gall 
formed like a horn, lengthened and contorted, which so ex- 
actly represents one which I possess, that the origin of this 
appears to be well defined 5 but this gall is not the one found 
with the pharmacien of Bourgtheroulde. This horn-shaped 
gall, however, is not the only one which the terebinth can 
produce, for Clusius himself mentions another vesicular 
one, adhering to the leaves and to the branches, nearly 
similar to that of the leaves of the elm. Again, J. Bauhin 
mentions having observed frequently on the terebinth an 
excrescence similar to a leathern bottle {outre), like that of 
the elm, and at other times, at the extremity of the branches, 
reddish horns from four to six inches long, of a cartilaginous 
substance, and containing a viscid humour, in which are 
contained small aphides (pucerons.) 
According to the monks, editors of Mesue, the terebinth 
bears two different fruits, and probably three. The first 
does not ripen, the second is developed in bunches, and be- 
comes larger than that of the lentisc. The last, if we may 
be allowed to give it this name (we allude to the galls,) is 
constituted like the bladders of the elm, though different in 
form and color, for the former are lengthened, depressed, 
and in the form of a goat's horn, whence the tree has taken 
the name of cornucapra ; the latter are round like apples, 
or oblong like plums, and of all these varieties, some are 
partly white, partly red, others are lemon-colored and 
white, others, again, greenish. All, when ripe, are filled 
with aphides (pucerons.) 
According to Belon, the peasants of Thrace and Mace- 
donia collect the galls of the terebinth about the end of June, 
under the leaves or at the foot of the branches which bear 
the fruit, and there they find a small gall the size of a hazel 
nut, which, if allowed to grow, would become long like a 
