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Swartz 130. " Fronds tripinnatifid ; pinnas fomewhat 

 wedgc-fhaped, pinnulas crofe, toothed at the tip. 39. A. 

 cicutanum. Swartz 1 30. " Trond tripinnate, very finooth, 

 the upper one piniiatilid, leaflets lanceolate, entire." The 

 fix lall fpecies are natives of Jamaica. 



The fullawmg Species are from ForJIer, and are all Nalivcs of 

 Netu Zealand. 

 40. K. faccidum. Forth Flor. Autl. n.426. "Fronds 

 pinnate ; leaflets alternate, remote, pinnatitid, linear, (lilF. 

 41. A. luc'ulum. Foril. n. 427. " Fronds pinnate; leaflets 

 oppoike, oblong-ovate, acuminate, feirulate." 42. A. po- 

 lyodon. Forll. n. 128. " Fronds pinnate ; leaflets trapezoid, 

 acuminate, acute, doubly-fcrrate." 43. A. olliquum. Forll. 

 n. 129. " Fronds pinnate; ilipes icaly; leaflets oblong, oppo- 

 lite, acuminate, ferrate, the outer margin fliorier." 44, A. 

 obtufatum. Forll. n. 130. " Fronds pinnate ; leaflets oppofite, 

 oblong, obtufe, fen-ate." 4J. A. tenerum. Ford. n. 131. 

 •' Fronds pinnate;- leaflets rhomb-oblong, obtuie, ga(h-ler- 

 rate." 46. A. caudcilum. Forll n. 132. " Fronds pinnate; 

 leaflets pinnatilid, linear, brilllc-fliaped at the tip, fegments 

 blunt, gafli-lerrate at the tip, llipe rough with hairs." 47. 

 A.lulbfcrum. Forll. 11.13:5. " Fronds fiibbipinnatc ; leaf- 

 lets decurient, oblong, obtufe, pinnatilid ; fruclidcations 

 proliferous. 



Propagation and Culture. Whoever is defiroiis of culti- 

 vating any of thefe ferns, mull have walls or rQcks or heaps 

 of ftones to fet the hardy fpecies in, or pots may be filled 

 with loamy undungcd earth, or fand gravel and lime rubbilh 

 for that purpofe, placing them in the Ihade. Hart's-tongue 

 has been railed from feed ; but all the forts may be in- 

 creafed by paiting the roots. Some of the foreign fpecies 

 mud be placed under a common frame in winter ; and 

 it is evident that fuch as are natives of the Weft Indies 

 and other hot climates, require the protection of a llove. 

 AspLENiUM. See Acrostichum, and Meniscium. 

 ASPOE, in Geography, a fmall idand of Sweden, in the 

 Baltic, two miles fouth-weft of Carlfcron. 



ASPONA, in Ancient Geography, a municipal town of 

 Alia Minor, in Galatiaj in the road trom Ancyra to C'.Efarea, 

 according to Antonine's Itinerary. 



ASPORENUM, a diftrici of Afia Minor, near Per- 

 gamns; which, according to Strabo, was barren and (lony, 

 and in which was a temple dedicated to the mother of the 

 gods, called Afporene. 



ASPOTAGOEN Mountain, in Geography, a high 

 land of America, that lies on the prdmontorj- which feparatcs 

 Mahone from Margaret's bay, on the coail of Nova Scotia. 

 This land, which is feen at a diilance, is that which is 

 generally made by the fliips bound from Europe and the 

 Well Indies to Halifax. Its fiimmit is about 500 feet 

 above the level of the fea. 



ASPRA, a town of Italy, in the territory of the church, 

 upon the river Aja, between Tivoli and Terni. It was 

 formerly in the dillrift of the Sabines, and called Cafpena, 

 and Cafperula. 



ASPREDO, in Ichthyology, a fpecies of Silurus that 

 inhabits the rivers in America. This kind has a fingle 

 dorfal fin, with five rays, and has eight cini. Gmcl. 

 The back is caiinated, and the tail forked, l^ein names it 

 batrachtis. 



ASPRELI^A, \n Botany. SeeLEERSiA. 

 ASPREMONT, in Geograpliy, a town of France, in the 

 depaitment of the Meufe, and chief place of a canton in the 

 diilncl of St. Michiel, four miles fouih-eall of St. Miehiel. 



ASPRES Les Vaynes, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Higher A'ps, and chief place of a canton in 

 ihe diftrict. of Scrres, fifteen miles well of Gajg. 



ASPRO, a river of European Turkey, wliicli runs into 

 the fea, twenty-eight miles well of Lepanto. 



ASPRONISI, formerly Automate, a fmall ifland of the 

 Archipelago, which, by fomc convulfion at a former period 

 was fepaiated from Thei-a, now Santorin. This leparation 

 is faid to have happened 237 years before the Chrilfian a;ra. 

 The coall of the gulf between tliefe two iflaiids, conipoftd 

 of thefe rocks, blnck, calcined, and towering upwards of 

 300 feet above the level of the fea, appears to be the edge 

 of an enormous crater, the bottom of which has never beeu 

 f.uhomtd. Afpronifi is rent internally, and covered with 

 pumice (lone; whence it has obtained the name of the 

 " White Ifland," which it now bears. Sonnini's Travels in 

 Greece, &c. p. 188. Oiivier's Travels in the Ottoman em- 

 pire, p. I fit. 



ASPROPJTI, a fmall town of European Turkey, in 

 Livadia, upon the gulf of I^epanto. 



ASPROPOTAMO, a river of the fouthcrn part of 

 Greece, has its fource in mount Mezzovo, and diicharges 

 itfelf into the Ionian fea. 



ASPROSPIZIA, a town of European Turkey, ten 

 miles S. S. W. of Livadia. 



ASPUCA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa 

 Propria. Ptolemy. 



ASPUNGITANI, a people of Afia, near the Palui; 

 Mttotis. Strabo. 



ASPURGIANI, a barbarous nation about the Bof- 

 phorus. Strabo. 



ASS, Afmus, in Zoology. See AsiNUS. 



Ass's Mill. See Milk. 



Ass B,iy, in Geography, lies on the fouth coail of the 

 ifland of Newfoundland. 



Ass, Cucumber. See Momordica. 



Ass, Feajl of the, in Ecclcfiafl'ical H'ljlory, a feflival which 

 was celebrated in feveral churches of France, during the 

 dark ages, in commemoration of the Virgin Mary's flio-ht 

 into Egypt. On this occafion a young girl richly dreffed, 

 with a child in her arms, was fet upon an afs richly capari- 

 foiled. The afs WKsled to the altar in folemn proceflion, and 

 high mafs was faid with great pomp. The afs was taught 

 to kneel at proper places: a hymn no lefs childilh than im- 

 pious was fung in his praife; and when the cercnionv was 

 ended, the pricll, inftead of the ufual words with which 

 he difmifled the people, brayed three times like an afs; and 

 the people, inllead of their ufual refponfe, " We blefs the 

 Lord," brayed three times in the fame manner. This was 

 an aft of devotion performed by the minifters of religion, 

 and by the authority of the church. However, as this.- 

 praftice did not prevail univerfally in the catholic church, 

 its abfurdity contributed at lail to aboliflt it. Du-Cange, 

 Voc. Fellum. 



ASSA, in Geography, a town of European Turkey, in 

 the iiland of Cephaloiiia, flxteen miles N.N.W. of Ccpha- 

 lonia. 



ASSABA, in Botany, the name given by the people of 

 Guinea to a ftirub which they are very fond of for its medi- 

 cinal virtue ; they boil it in water, and rub it on a bubo, and 

 it proves a cure. Phil. Tranf. N" 232. 



ASSABENSIS, in Ancient Geography, an epifcopal fee 

 of Africa, in Numidia. 



ASSABET, in Geography, a river of America, which 

 rifes in Grafton, Worcefter county, Maffachufetts, and runs 

 north-eall into Merrimack river. 



ASSACANI, or Assaceni, in Ancient Geography, a 

 people of India, who inhabited a country fituated between 

 Bazira, now Bijore, and Peucelaotis, correfponding to the 

 prefcut Puckholi. The government of the country, when 



Alexander 



