420 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [anNO 1773, 



coriaceous, permanent ; border five-cleft, (often four-cleft) : divisions lanceolate, 

 obtuse, erect, unequal, one twice the breadth of the others, deciduous; interior 

 pentapetalous, petals ovate lanceolate, obtuse, broadish, erect, nearly twice the 

 length of the outer corol : claws subulate, inserted into the margin of the tube 

 of the outer corol ; stamens. Jilaments constant\y eleven, filiform, very long, i. e. 

 twice the length of the corol, erect, subcurvate, equal, beneath coalescing into 

 an entire tube, opening in front, surrounding the germ, growing to the margin 

 of the tube of the outer corol, then split into filaments equal at the base; 

 anthers ovate, incumbent; pistil, germ superior, footstalked from the tube of the 

 outer corol: the footstalk growing to the tube, cylindric, downy; style fW'iform, 

 length of stamens, inflected; stigma simple; pericarp, legume oblong, com- 

 pressed, narrowed about the dissepiment, common bilocular; dissepiment mem- 

 branaceous; ,?eec/* solitary, ovate, compressed, somewhat wrinkled, covered with 

 fungous fibres. 



XXIII. Fatal Effect of Lightning, in a Letter from the Rev, S. Kirkshaw, D. D.y 



of Leeds, p. 177- 



On the 29th of Sept, last, (1772), about 1 o'clock in the morning, were 3 

 remarkably loud claps of thunder, attended with proportionable lightning. 

 Mr. Thomas Heartly, formerly wine-merchant of Leeds, but lately retired 

 from business to Harrowgate, lived there in a hired house, the 2d northward 

 from the queen's head. While he was in bed with his wife, she was awaked 

 from sleep by the thunder, and went to the window; but not being afraid, she 

 went to bed again, and fell asleep. About 5 she awaked; and, not perceiving 

 her husband to breathe, though warm, endeavoured to awake him — in vain! 

 She quickly sent for Mr. Hutchinson, a considerable apothecary at Knares- 

 borough, who, on sight of Mr. Heartly, and after some experiments, declared 

 him dead, though still very warm. At her request however, he opened a vein; 

 and Mr, Heartly bled freely, insomuch that the blood did not cease to ooze out 

 of the orifice till the body was put in the coffin, which was on Thursday 

 evening, the 1st instant, viz, October, and it was not even then cold. His hair, 

 which he wore, was considerably burnt, or singed on the right side of his head, 

 which was uppermost, as he lay then on his left side, and the inside of his night- 

 cap, on the same side, was singed or browned, though no where on the outside 

 marked at all. Within the cap was found a splinter from the bed post next to 

 his head, which post was torn and split into many splinters or shivers, from the 

 top to the bottom, though a strong oaken post, and almost new. No wound, 

 or mark of any sort, was discovered on any part of his bo<ly; but the lower 

 part of his right cheek was swelled, and much hardened. 



In the chamber where this happened, there was a small chimney to the north» 



