UMBELLIFERAE 



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UNCAS 



Paris 



Penelope 



Polyphemus 



Scylla and Charybdls 



Sirens 



Troy, subtitle Trojan 



War 

 Wooden Horse 



UMBELLIFERAE, um be lij'ur ce, the bo- 

 tanical name for the parsley family. The word 

 is from the same root as the word umbrella, 

 and is applied because most members of the 

 family have flowers arranged in umbrellalike 

 dusters. There are from 1,500 to 2,000 herbs 

 and shrubs in this family, and while they are 

 to be found in all parts of the world, they are 

 most abundant in the north temperate zone. 

 Some of the species are poisonous, others I 

 medicinal value, and others are useful food 

 plants. Representatives of the latter group are 

 carrots, celery and parsnips. Anise and cara- 

 way, which are cultivated for their seeds, and 

 fennel and parsley, cultivated for their leaves, 

 are other members of the family. 



Related Subjects. For a discussion of the 

 most important members of the family of um- 

 belliferae, the reader may consult the following 

 articles in these volumes: 

 Anise Cow Parsnip 



Caraway Fennel 



Carrot Hemlock 



Celery Parsley 



Cicely Parsnip 



UM'BER, a soft, earthy mineral pigment, 

 used in the preparation of oil and water-color 

 paints. Raw umber, obtained by grinding the 

 mineral to a powder, is the source of a brown 

 paint. Burnt umber has a richer, deeper color. 

 The name has reference to the fact that the 

 I iirinent was first found in Umbria, Italy. It is 

 now mined in Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York 

 and Georgia, on the island of Cyprus, and in 

 small quantities in various places on the Euro- 

 pean continent. 



UMBRELLA. Though to-day this term is 

 used almost exclusively to mean a protector 

 against the rain, while a sunshade is called a 

 i#irtuol, the umbrella was originally a sun- 

 shade, and the name is from a Latin word 

 meaning little shadow. These protectors had 

 their oripin in Oriental countries, where the 

 \vas hot and bright; the sculptures of an- 

 ' Egypt and Assyria shot? slaves bearing 

 umbrellas over the heads of their king*. I 

 to-day in those same countries the umbrella is 

 to son regarded as a symbol of rank. 



UMBREL'LA BIRD, a bird of tropical South 



rica, whose most conspicuous ornament is 



:h. rounded rrest of long, slender feathers 



that droop forward, unbrellal the end 



of the bill. It also has a beautiful plume of 



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glossy black feathers hanging from its throat 

 before its breast. The bird is about the sire of 

 a crow, and, like it, is colored black. Its food 



is mainly fruit. Its four white eggs are placed 

 on a platform of sticks m the top of a high tree. 



UN ALASKA, oonalas'ka, the most impor- 

 tant of the Aleutian Islands, is situated 

 miles southwest of the mainland of Alaska, to 

 which territory it is politically attached, 

 island has a length of seventy-five miles and a 

 breadth of from ten to twenty-five miles. It 

 is mountainous, of volcanic form ;>eak 



of Makushin rising 5,691 feet above sea I 



The largest settlement or village is Unalaska, 

 with a population of 450; its trade is stead. K 

 increasing on account of the Alaskan gold fields, 

 and because it is a port of call for all vesteli 

 navigating Boring Sea. A few Russians and 

 Americans engaged in fishing live on the island, 

 the natives being Aleuts. 



UNCAS, un'kahz ( ? -about 1083), an 

 American Indian chief, born in Connecticut 

 He was one of the chiefs of th. 

 l>ut in 1635 rebelled against and 



formed a tribe of hia own known as the Mo- 

 hicans. Thereafter hi- life hnd to be one of 

 constant watchfulness and M:,:. In If.;;: 

 joined the English in a war against the 

 quots; in 1643 he defeated the Narragansett*. 

 and in 1648 had a desperate campaign with 

 tin Mohawks, Pocomtocks, Narragansetts and 

 fnbe*. The Narragansett* again attacked 

 him in 1657; he was saved only by t! 



ion of a colonist, Ensign Leffingwell, and in 

 he gave this Englishman the site of 

 Conn. He aided the New England 



