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mones, which, with the scarlets and reds, 

 form a beautiful mixture of colours ; and 

 as these begin to flower in January or 

 February, when the weather is cold, they 

 will continue for a long time in beauty, 

 provided that the frost is not too severe. 

 The seeds of these are ripe by the middle 

 or end of May, and must be gathered 

 daily as they ripen, because they will 

 soon be blown away by the winds. The 



annual, and has been cultivated here more 

 than 200 years. The seeds are directed 

 for use by the London and Edinburgh 

 Pharmacopeias. Common fennel, another 

 species of ancthum, is much used for culi- 

 nary purposes, and likewise in medicine. 



ANEURISM, or AXEURYSM, in surgery, 

 a throbbing tumour, distended with blood, 

 and formed by a dilatation or rupture of 



artery. 



roots of wood anemone may be taken up ANGEL, in commerce, the name of an 



when the leaves decay, and transplanted 

 into wildernesses, where they will thrive, 

 and in the spring have a good effect in 

 covering the ground with their leaves and 

 flowers. The blue anemone flowers at 

 the same time with the foregoing, and in- 

 termixed with it, makes a fine variety. 

 Double flowers of both these sorts have 

 been obtained from seeds. This, and most 

 of the other wild anemones, may be pro- 

 pagated by offsets from the root, which 

 they put out plentifully ; and they will 

 grow in most soils and situations. Vir- 

 ginian anemone, and some others, produce 

 plenty of seeds, and may be readily in- 

 creased also that way. 



ANEMOSCOPE, a machine invented to 

 tell the changes of the wind. It should 

 consist of an index moving about a circu- 

 lar plate, like the dial of a clock, on 

 which the 32 points of the compass are 

 drawn, instead of hours. The index, 

 pointing to the divisions in the dial, is 

 turned by an horizontal axis, having an 

 handle-head at its outward extremity. 

 This handle-head is moved by a cog- 

 wheel on a perpendicular axis, on the top 

 of which is fixed a vane, that moves with 

 the course of the wind, and gives motion 

 to the whole machine. The contrivance 

 is simple, the number of cogs in the wheel 

 and rounds in the trundle-head must be 

 equal, because it is necessary, that when 

 the vane moves entirely round, the index 

 of the dial should also make a complete 

 revolution. A different anemoscope is 

 described in the Phil. Trans, vol. xliii. 

 part ii. and one is described in Martin's 

 Phil. Brit.vol.ii. 



ANETHUM, in botany, dill, a genus of 

 the Pentandria Digynia class and order. 

 Essen, char, fruit ovate, somewhat com- 

 pressed, striate : petals involute, entire. 

 There are three species. The common 

 dill differs from fennel, in having an an- 

 nual root, a smaller and lower stem ; the 

 leaves more glaucous, and of a less plea- 

 sant smell ; the seeds broader and flatter. 

 This plant grows wild among the corn in 

 Spain and Portu gal, and also near the coast 

 in Italy, and near Constantinople : it is an 



ancient gold coin in England, of which 

 some are still to be seen in the cabinets of 

 the curious. It had its name from the 

 figure of an angel represented upon it. It 

 was 233 carats fine, and weighed four pen- 

 ny-weights. Its value differed in different 

 reigns. 



ANGELIC A, in botany, a genus of the 

 Pentandria Digynia class of plants, the ge- 

 neral umbel of which is roundish and mul- 

 tiple ; the partial umbel, while in flower, 

 is perfectly globose ; the general involu- 

 crum is composed of either three or five 

 leaves; the partial involucrum is small, and 

 composed of eight leaves; the proper 

 perianthium is small and quinquedentate; 

 the general corolla is uniform ; the single 

 flowers consist each of five deciduous, 

 lanceolated, and slightly crooked petals ; 

 the fruit is naked, roundish, angular, and 

 separable into two parts : the seeds are 

 two, of an oval figure, plain on one side, 

 and convex or striated on the other. 



All the sorts may be increased by seeds. 

 The common angelica delights in a moist 

 soil, in which the seeds should be sown 

 soon after they are ripe ; and when the 

 plants are about six inches high, they 

 should be transplanted ata large distance, 

 about three feet asunder, on the sides of 

 ditches or pools of water. In the second 

 year they will flower, and their steins may 

 be cut down in May, and heads will be 

 put out from the sides of the roots, and 

 thus they may be continued for three or 

 four years ; but if they have been permit- 

 ted to seed, their roots would perish soon 

 after. The stalks of garden angelica were 

 formerly blanched, and eaten as celery. 

 The young shoots are in great esteem 

 among the Laplanders. In Norway, bread 

 is sometimes made of the roots. The gar- 

 deners near London, who have ditches of 

 of water in their gardens, propagate great 

 quantities of this plant, which they sell to 

 the confectioners, who make a sweet- 

 meat with the tender stalks cut in May. 

 Bohemia and Spain are supposed to pro- 

 duce the best : the College of London, 

 formerly directed the roots brought from 

 Spain only to be kept in the shops, lin- 



