AGA 



AUA 



a woman may be admitted a witness for 

 flic brother of h. : husboncl, she 



is not allowed to marry him. 



: y, tlie attraction 



nian'.f, M the parts of bodies in 



chcni'cal r;>inl)iiiati(-ii is, by many authors, 

 il by this name. See CHK- 

 MISTRY. 



AFFIi:\l \Tlo.V, an indulgence allow- 

 ed by law to the people called Quakers, 

 who, in c:i-,cs w Mere an oath is required 

 from others, may make a solemn affirma- 

 tion that what they say is true. But their 

 affirmation is confined to civil cases, and 

 is not allowed in any criminal cause, nor 

 with regard to places of profit or trust 

 under tin- government. 



AFFKAY, or AFFHATMEJTT, in law, for- 

 merly signified tile crime of affrighting 

 other persons, by appearing in unusual ar- 

 mour, brandishing a weapon, &c. But, at 

 present, arlray denotes a skirmish or 

 tight ;ig between two or more ; and there 

 must be a stroke given, otherwise it is no 

 arlray. 



AFFRONTKK, in heraldry, an appella- 

 tion given to animals facing one another 

 on an escutcheon, a kind of bearing, 

 which is otherwise called confroutee, and 

 stands opposed to luhsttee. 



AFT, in the sea language, the same 

 with abaft. See ABAFT. 



AF/KLIA, in botany, a genus of the 

 Oidyuamia Angiospernna class and order: 

 the calyx is quinquepartite, the corolla 

 campanulated, and the capsule rotundated 

 with hemispheric receptacles. There is 

 but one species, found in Africa, near the 

 equinoctial. 



IGAPANTHU8, in botany, a genus of 

 the Hexaiulrix Monogynia class and or- 

 der, of tin natural order of Liliacx : the 

 ralyx is a spathe ; the corolla is one pe- 

 Ulledi the stamina are six filaments, in- 

 serted into the throat, shorter tlian the 

 (.orolla; the anthers kidney-shaped and 

 incumbent ; the pistillum is a superior 

 germ; the style filiform, of the length of 

 ituvc stamens; the stigma simple or tri- 

 iid; tlu- pericarpium is an oblong capsule; 



Is numerous, oblong, compi 

 and enlarged with a membrane. There is 

 one species, viz. A. umlu -Hatus, or African 

 blue lily. This is the Af'ncan tube-rose 

 hyacinth, with a blue umbellutcd ttow- 

 rr. The root of this plant is compos- 

 ed of thick fleshy fibres ; fjjpm the 

 same bead arises a cluster OV rtavea, 

 which are thick and succulent, and of a 

 dark green colour. Between thest 

 the flower stalk, supporting an umbel of 

 blue flowers in a sheath, and each flower 



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standing on a pedicle, about an inch long. 

 The umbel being large, the flowers nu- 

 merous, and of a light blue colour, make 

 a fine appearance. They come out at the 

 end of August, or beginning of Septem- 

 ber, and frequently continue in beaut \ ;ill 

 spring. It is a native of the Cape of (iood 

 Hope, from whence it was brought to 

 Holland, and in 1692 it was cultivated at 

 Hampton court. 



This plant is propagated by offsets, ta- 

 ken at the latter end of June, planted in 

 separate pots, with light kitchen -garden 

 earth, and placed in a shady situation. 

 In five weeks the offsets will put off new 

 roots, and the pots should then be re- 

 moved to a more sunny situation, and have 

 more water. In September they will put 

 out their flower-stalks, and toward the 

 end of the month the flowers will begin 

 to open, and should be removed under 

 shelter in bad weather, but in good wea- 

 ther exposed to the free air. Toward the 

 end of October they should be removed 

 to the green-house, and have the benefit 

 of free air, and be occasionally watered 

 during winter, in mild weather, but in 

 frost they should be kept dry. 



AGAKIC, in botany, a genus of the or- 

 der of Fungi, and class of Cryptogamia: 

 the pileus or cap has gills underneath, 

 and the giils differ in substance from the 

 rest of the plant, being composed of two 

 lamina, and the seeds are in the gills. 

 There art nearly 400 species. Dr. *,\ i 

 thering distribute* them into three gene- 

 ral classes, comprehending those which 

 have central stems, those with latx-r.il 

 stems, and those which have no stems ; 

 and he again subdivides the two former 

 classes into such as have solid, a> 

 as have hollow stems, with decurrent, 

 fixed, and loose gills, respective 1\ . l"n- 

 der these heads, lie arranges the species 

 by the colour of the gills, into 

 gills are white, brown, red, buff, yellow, 

 grey, green, and purple. As this ingeni- 

 ous author has formed a .system, tlm' 

 si-r\esto facilitate the investigation and 

 description of the several species < 

 rics, we shall lure give a brief sketch of 

 the principles upon which it is founded. 

 Agarics are composed of a cap or pileus, 

 with gills underneath, and are either with 

 or without stems. The sU-ms are either 

 central or lateral. They luue also a root, 

 \\ Inch is more or less apparent, and some 

 of them, in their unfolded state, u holly 

 (1 in a niembranaccous or leather- 

 like ca.se, called a wrapper. Some of 

 them have also a curtain, or thin mem- 

 brane, expending from the *tem to th 



