Myrtle
An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 30
(mur'-tl). A popular name for several plants of the genera Myrtus, and Myrica, q. v. The wax-myrtles belong to the genus Myrica. M.-wax, a solid fat obtained by pre ure from the berries of Myrica cerifera, Inn specific gravity of 1.005 at 150 C, and fusing at from 450 to It is used as a substitute for beeswax in pharmacy and particularly in candle-mal Several other species of this genus afford myrtle-wax.
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