s brought to us from Syria, and the East-Indies; and ought to be chosen pure, very fragrant, and of an acid taste. It is much recommended as a detergent and balsamic, in disorders of the breast; it is also esteemed a cordial, and is recommended in vertigoes and other disorders of the head and nerves.

**Liquid Storax,** in pharmacy, is a drug very different from the resin above described; being a retinous juice, of the consistence of venice-turpentine, or thicker: it is, when clean, pellucid, of a brownish colour, with a cast sometimes of reddish, and sometimes of greyish in it. Its smell is somewhat like that of common storax, only much stronger, and even disagreeable: its taste is acrid, aromatic, and somewhat bitterish; and it is oily, or unctuous. It should be chosen thin, pellucid, of a clean brown colour, and of a very strong smell.

**STORAGE,** a Greek term, frequently used for the parental instinct, or natural affection, which almost all animals bear their young; whereby they are most powerfully moved to defend them from dangers, and procure for them suitable nourishment.

**STORK,** in ornithology. See Ardea.

**STORM BIRD.** See Procellaria.

**STORMAR,** the fourth division of Holstein, whereof Hamburgh is the chief town.

**STORTFORD,** a market-town of Hertfordshire, thirty miles north of London.

**STOVES,** in gardening, are buildings erected for the preservation of tender exotic plants, which, without that assistance, will not bear the cold of our winter, because they require an artificial warmth.