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amount to 27 volumes in folio, of wjiich 24 arc commen- 

 taries on fome of the books of fcripturi; ; the rell arcciiiefly 

 theological ; they were printed by tlie order of Cardiaal 

 Ximcnes, at Venice, in 1530, at the fame place in I5'j6, 

 and at Colojrn in 1612. His •' Commentary upon the 

 Chrowicon of Eufcbius," was printed ftparately at Sala- 

 niaaca in 1506 ; as were alfo fcveral other books in literature 

 and fcience, and ecelefialUcal hilloiy. Diipin, 15th cent. 



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ALPHOS, in Meilic'tnf, a diftemper defcribed by Cclfus, 

 imder the name of iihiligo ; wherein tiie (Icin is rough, and 

 becomes fprinkled as it were with drops of white ; and 

 thence denominated huce. Where the fpots are black, it 

 is alio called iu<^ra ; and mclane. It bears the fame 

 relation to the huce, as the fcalks to the Irpra ; the firil 

 is fuperficial and cutaneous, the fccond finks deeper into the 

 fledi. The alphos, melas, and leiice, arc but one and the fame 

 difordcr, only differing in its degree of inveteracy. 



ALPIEU. See Basset. 



ALPIGNAN, in Geigrnphy, a town of Italy, in the 

 principality ot Piedmont, on tiic 13u]a, five mius well of 

 Turin. 



ALPINE. See Cisalpine. 1 



ALPINI, in ^^i:s}ei!! Gcografthy, a people of Spain, men- 

 tioned by AuUis Gellius and Varro, in wlioie country were 

 excellent mmes of iron and lilver. They were fituated near 

 the Ebro. 



AI^PINI A, in Botany, fo called after ProsperAlpinus, 

 a genus of the mo'iandriu moii'jqyt;iu clafs and order, of the 

 natural order of f,:itame>ie<; and cannis of Juifieu ; the cha- 

 ratlers of which are, that tlie calyx is a perianthium one- 

 leafed, tubulofe, three-toothed, t!ie leaflets equal, erecl and 

 acute ; the cora/A; monopetalou;, tubulofe, tube cylindraceous 

 and fhort, border three-parted, and parts nearlv equal and 

 oblong ; the neftary connate with the tube of the corolla, 

 two-parted, the lower part forming the lower lip is larger 

 and longer than the parts of the corolla, broadifh, fpreading 

 and often divided ; the /lamina have no proper filament, but 

 along the upper divifion of the neClar)-, forming the 

 upper lip, which is flattifli and of the length of the corolla, 

 grows a large anther, either deeply bifid or entire ; the 

 piftiUttm has- an inferior, oblong germ, llyle filiform, often 

 jnferted into the fiiTure of the anther, ifigma incrailate 

 and obtufe ; the pcrtcarpium is an oval capfule, three-celled, 

 crowned with the permanent calyx ; thtfienh are ovate, an- 

 g-ular, and covered with a fort of berried aril. Tliis genus 

 differs from the amomum and coitus only in the habit and 

 the infloreicence, which is racemcd. Martyn reckons two, 

 Willdei.ow four, and Gmelin five fpecies. They are as 

 follow : I. A. racemnfa, with raceme- terminating, fpiked, 

 flowers alternate, lip of thencitary tritld, and leaves oblong 

 and acuminate. This is the A. jamaicenfis of Gartner, the 

 amomum pyraraidale of L.a Marck, the amomum alpinia of 

 Rottboel, a.id the zingiber fylveftre minus, Sec. of Sloane. It 

 is a native of the Weft Indies. With us it mull be preferved 

 in a ftove, and the pot plunged into a tub of water ; the 

 leaves decay every Winter, and are pullied out from the roots 

 every Spring. It may be increaied by parting the roots, 

 when the leaves decay. Gmelin mentions two varieties, A. 

 fefTilis of Koenig, and A. multicaulis of Aublet. z. A. 

 ecchtenlalis, with raceme radical, compound, ereft, n'ftary 

 emarginate at the apex, three-celled capfules, and leaves 

 lanceolate-ovate and very fmooth. This is the amomum 

 minus, with clothed ftalk and fpiked flowers of Brown, 

 Jamaic. It is a native of the woods of Jamaica and St. 

 Domingo. 3. A., fpicataoi Gmelin, who queries whether 

 it be of this genus. SeeCosTus. 4. A. /jnj'<!«j of Gmelinj 



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with panicidatcd terminal flowers. He mentions two vn- 

 rieties, vix. Langu,i3 chinenlisand L.aquaticum of Koenig. 

 5. A. jiiti:aicrnfi.<, made by Gmelin a dilliiicl fpecies. 6. 

 A. giilunga of \\'illdcnow, having a terminal lax raceme, 

 with alternate flowers, the lip of the neftary emarginate and 

 lanceolate leaves. This is the maranta galanfa, with a fimple 

 cidm ot other writers, the amomum galanga, &c. of L<iu- 

 reiro, the galanga of Rumphius, and the galanga of the 

 fliops. It is a native of the Ealt Indies. 7. A. ciirnofaoi 

 W. with a terminal tufted fpike, braftcs longer than the 

 flower and coloured, and oblong-ovate pubelcent leaves. 

 The calyx is red ; the corolla yellow ; and the neijtary yellow, 

 truncated and quinque-dentuted. It is found iu Caraccas, 

 in South America. 



ALPINUS,Pp.ospER,orPROspERO ALPisi,in JS/V(^r^^/iy, 

 born at MarolUca, in the dates of Venice, in the vear 1 553, 

 became celebrated for his Ikill in medicine and botany, which 

 he cultivated with fingular fuccefs. Having quitted the army, 

 to which he was at iirlL attaeiied, lie went to Padua, v.-hcre he 

 iluditd phyfic, and in 157S was received doftor in medicine, 

 and through the interellof his father, who was alfo a phvfician, 

 was appointed in 1 580 to attend the Venetian conful t9 

 Egypt. He remained there three years, during which time 

 he applied hiinfelf with great indullry to acquire a know- 

 ledge of the mod remaikable plants, indigenous to that 

 country, and of the praflice of phjfic, or the methods u fed 

 by tlie natives in curing difeafes. Thel'e became the fubitCls- 

 of feveial learned and ingenious works, which he publillied 

 on his return from Egypt. In 1586, he was appointed 

 phyfician to Andrew Doria, at Genoa, whence, the repu- 

 tation of his abilities increafing, he was called home by the 

 dates of Venice, and appointed profefl'or of botany and 

 curator of the phyfic garden at Padua, which office he 

 retained to the time of his death, which happened in Nc^ 

 vember 1 61 6. He was fucceeded in the profeflbr's chair, 

 by one of his fons, who had probably been his affidant, as 

 he is faid to have been very infirm, and to have laboured 

 under a difficulty of hearing, during fome of the latter 

 years of his life. The principal of his works, which have 

 paded through numerous editions, and are in many 

 hands, are, " De Mcdiclna jEgyptiorum," lib. iv. firll 

 publiflied at Venice, in 161 i, full of ingenious information as 

 to tlie dileafes, medicine, furgei-y, and modes of life of the 

 modern Egyptians ; " De plantis iEgypti, liber ;" " De 

 Baliamo, dialogus," a treatife on the famous balm of Gilead. 

 " De praefagicnda vita et morte /Hgrotantium," publidicd 

 in 1 60 1, and confiding cliiefly of a colleftion and arrange- 

 ment of the prefages of Hippocrates ; " De medieina metlio- 

 dica," being an attempt to elucidate and refiore the ancient 

 doctrine of the Melhodidic fedt in medicine, publilhed in 

 , 161 1 ; " De Rhaponticodifputatio iiiauguralis;" " De plan- 

 tis exoticis ;" all in quarto. Pie is alfo faid to have left other 

 works in manufcript, that have not been publidied. Ample 

 accounts of thefe fevcral works, and of the editions they have 

 paffed through, may be found in Haller's Bib. Med. Pradt. 

 and his Bib. Botanica. 



ALPI6TE, or Alpia, a fort of feed ufedto feed birds 

 with, efpecially when they are to be nouridied for breeding. 

 The alpille feed is of an oval figure, of a pale yellow, in- 

 clining to an ifabel colour, bright aiulglody. It is an article 

 of the corn chandlers and feedlmcn'stiade. See Phalaris. 



ALPS, Alpes, in Geography, was a name given to 

 a chain of moimtains, which extended from the fca of 

 Liguria to Idria, and forming a kind of crefccnt, feparaled 

 the northern part of Italy from Gaul and Germany. The 

 name is Celtic, and denotes highly elevated ; or, as the author 

 of a German book, entitled, " RlKinifchcr Antiquarius," 

 5 E 2 fuggefts, 



