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advantage by tlieir produce in bark, for the u(e of the tan- 

 ners and cork-cutters, in tanning leather, and being made 

 into corks ; after the former of which, it is alfo much em- 

 ployed in gardening, for the forming of bark hot-beds, in 

 raifnu"- tender hot-houfe exotic plants : as well as in their 

 annual crops of acorns, as an excellent food for the keeping 

 and fattening of fwine, deer, and fome otlier animals. 



QUERCUS, in Plcinl'wg, a clatTical tt-rm fometimes applied 

 to the oak-tree in nurfery collections, intended for this fort 

 of apphcation. See OAV.-Trei: 



QuERCUS Marina, the Sea-Oak, in Botany, the name of 

 one of the broad-leaved dichotomous fea-fucufcs. 



It is not agreed, among the late botanifts, what was the 

 fea-oak of Thcopliraftus ; and the mod ancient botanifts, 

 Clufius and Caefalpinus, fuppofe it to have been a fpecics 

 of the flirubby coralline ; but that feems by no means to 

 have been the cafe, fince Theophrallus fays his fea-oak 

 had a long, thick, and flefliy leaf, whence we may much 

 more naf urally conclude it to have been of the fucus clafs. 



QUERCY, in Geography, a province of France before 

 the revolution, in the government of Guienne ; bordered on 

 the E. by Rouergue and Auvergne, on the S. by Upper 

 Languedoc, on the W. by Perigord and Agenois, and on 

 the N. by Limofin : it contained two bidioprics, •vi'z. Ca- 

 hors and Moiitauban. The air is good, and the land is 

 fertile : its capital was Cahors. It now conftitutes the de- 

 partment of the Lot. 



QUEREIVA, in Ornithology, the purple-throated chat- 

 terer of Latham, a fpecies of Ampelis. 



QUERELA, QuARRE!., in Latv, denotes an aftion, or 

 declaration, preferred in any court of juftice. See Quar- 

 rel. 



In an aftion where the plaintiff is called querens, i. (. com- 

 plainant, his brief, complaint, or declaration, is called 

 ywf/r/a. 



Querela j^udlta. See Audita. 



Querela coram rege el conciUo, a writ by which one is 

 called to juitify a complaint of a trefpafs made to the king 

 himfelf, before the king and his council. 



Querela Duplex. See Double Quarrel. 



Querela, Ex gravi. See Ex gravi, &c. 



QUERENGHI, Antonio, in Biography, a man of 

 letters, was born at Padua in 1546. He difplayed, at an 

 early period of his life, a decided attachment to literature ; 

 he wrote verfcs before he was twelve years of age, and foon 

 ' became diftinguilhed by his deep knowledge of the lan- 

 guages, civil laws, and the philofophy that was taught at 

 that period. For fome time he applied himfelf to theology, 

 and made confiderable proliciency in it. He next went to 

 Rome, where he entered into the fervice of feveral cardinals, 

 and at length became fecretary of the facrcd college, in 

 which capacity he was prcfent at the eleftion of five popes. 

 Clement VIII. conferred upon him the canonry of Padua, 

 which occafioned him to refide in that city, but he returned 

 to Rome in the pontificate of Paul V., by whom he was 

 promoted to fome offices of truft. He died at Rome in 

 1633, at the age of 87. He was a man of various and 

 extcnfive literature, and was much regarded by the learned 

 of the time in which he flourifhed. His writings were nu- 

 merous, and comprehended the fcicnces and polite literature. 

 He is chirfy known to polterity by his poems, which are 

 correft and elegant, but by no means animated. Moreri. 



QUERETANO, in Geography, a town of Mexico; 80 

 miles N.N.W. of Mexico. N. lat. 20° 25'. W. long. 

 iOiO 36'. 



QUERFAA, in the Materia Medica of the ylralians, a 



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name given by Avicenna and others to cinnamon, when ga- 

 thered with the wood of the young branches. 



It was a commcni praftice in the early times not to ftrip 

 the fmall bark from medicinal tree:, but to cut off the littl'- 

 boughs, and ufe the bark' and wood together. This tiu 

 Greeks called xylo cinnamomum, or woody cinnamon ; and 

 the Arabians, querfaa, qucrje, or kcrfe. 



QUERFURT, in Geography, a tcnvn of Saxony, fituated 

 on tile little river Weite, inconfiderable in itfcif, but having 

 large fuburbs ; the number of houO'S is ellimated at up- 

 wards of 500. The old caftle belonging to it Hands on a 

 hill, and it has likewife a fupcrintendency ; 16 miles S.W. 

 of Halle. N. lat. 51^ 23'. E. long. 1 1' 45'. 



QUERIA, in Bctany, recived that name from Loefling 

 and Linnsus, in compliment to Don Jufeph Quer y Martinez, 

 a Spanilh furgeon, who though he wrote againlt the Lin- 

 nsan fyftem, and even the fexes of plants, contending that 

 palm-trees ripen fruit without impregnation, was an affiduous 

 praftical botanift. He publidicd a Spanifh Flora, in his 

 native tongue, conCfting of four volumes quarto, of whic'n 

 the firit three appeared in 1762, and the fourth in 1 764. A 

 fifth and fixth were added by Ortega in 17S4. Quer was 

 profed'or of botany in the royal garden at Madrid, and died 

 in 1764, aged 69. He wrote alio on the Uvi Urft, (which 

 he removes from the genus jlrlutus, ) as a fpecific in calculous 

 complaints ; and on the medical ufe of Cicuta. — See Haller's 

 Bibl. Bot. V. 2. 516. and Dryandr. Bibl. Banks, — Linn. 

 Gen. 43. Schreb. 58. Willd. Sp. PI. v. I. 493. MarU 

 Mill. Did V. 4. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. i. 185. Juff. 300. 

 Lamarck lUuilr. t. 52. Gxrtn. t. 128? — Clafs and order, 

 Trianclria Trigynia. Nat. Ord. Caryophyllea, Linn. Jud'. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of five erett, oblong, 

 acute, permanent leaves ; the outermoft recurved. Cor. 

 none. Stam. Filaments three, capillary, fhort ; anthers 

 roundifh. Pijl. Germen fuperior, ovate ; ftyles three, the 

 length of the ftamens ; ftigmas fimple. Peric. Capfule 

 roundiih, of one cell, with three valves. Seed folitary, 

 roundifh, compreffed. 



Eii. Ch. Calyx of five leaves. Corolla none. Capfule 

 of one cell, with one feed. 



Obf. Linnaeus remarks, that this genus differs evidently 

 from Minuartia, fee that article, in having a folitary feed. 

 Q. canadenf's, figured by Gaertner, is removed hence by 

 Michaux to his genus Anychia, which belongs to a different 

 natural order, the Holeraceis of Linnaeus, and has a capfule 

 deftitute of valves. Gxrtner indicates its clofe affinity, ex- 

 cept in number of ftamens, to his Paronychia, fee that 

 article. Michaux and Purfh ail'ert that its ftamens vary from 

 two to five. 



1. Q. hifpanica. ' Spanifli Queria. Linn. Sp. PI. 132. 

 Willd. n. I. Ait. n. i. Loefl. It. 48. 83. Quer. Fl. 

 Elpan. V. 6. 667. t. ij. f. 2. — Flowers crowded into a tuft. 

 — Native of fandy grounds in Spain. Seeds were fent to 

 Kew, in 1800, by the late marchionefs of Bute. The plant 

 is a diminutive hardy annual, flowering moll part of the 

 fummer. Root fibrous. Whole herb whitifli, brittle, one 

 or two inches high, with feveral leafy, round, rather downy, 

 ilightly reddifti Jlems. Leaves oppofite, feflile, awl-ftiapcd, ■ 

 three-ribbed, carved to one fide, rather longer than the joints 

 of the Item. Head of jloivers obfcurely quadrangular, 

 denfely dichotomous, eafily breaking off from the ftem. 

 Bradeas oppofite, awl-ihaped, recurved, and hooked, eafily 

 catching hold of the coats of animals. Floiuen very 

 minute. 



2. Q. eanadenjis. Canadian Queria. Linn. Sp. PI. 132. 

 Willd. n. 2. Ait. n. 2. Gxrtn. v. 2. 217. t. 128. f. 10. 

 Gron. Virg. ed. 2. 16. (Mollugo foliis oppofitis, itipulis 



quaterni;, 



