UR Sead 
ee fete y equine mr, 
BARILHA, 
Or this fubftance there are feveral forts made of different 
plants*, but the beft is that formed near Alicant, at a diftance 
from the fea, by the combuftion of a plant called by the inha- 
bitants bari/ba, and defcribed by Juffien in the memoirs of the 
academy of Paris for 1717, under the name of kak hif/panicum, 
Jupinum annuum, fedi foliis brevibus. It feems to be clafled by 
Linneus under the fpentandria digyn, by the name of fal fila 
vermiculata frutefcens foltis ovatis acutis carnofis, and fhould care- 
fully be diftinguifhed from the various kinds of /alicornia which 
he ranges under the title of monandria monogyna; and alfo from 
other plants which he calls chenopodia, which yield an alkali, 
but lefs pure than the /a//o/a. Thefe plants being dried to the fame 
degree as hay, are burned in pits nearly as kelp is with us, the 
afhes and falt run into a greyifh blue mafs, which is the barilha }, 
The beft fort is here called /zweet barilha. 
Tue fweet barilha which I examined was moft obligingly 
prefented to me by Mr. Byrne, an eminent merchant of this 
city. It was of a bluifh colour, covered over with a faline powder 
* See Colonel Conyngham’s letter, report of the committee of the houfe of com- 
mons of Ireland, 1788, p. 87. \ h ; 
t And by the French /oude, as being employed in foldering metals. 
exceedingly 
