QUE 



quaternis, caule dicliotomo ; Gron. Virg. ej. i. 14. Any- 

 chia dichotoma ; Michaux Boreal-Amer. v. i. 113. Purdi 

 V. I. 176.) — Flowers folitary, Hem forked. — Native of dry 

 lime-Hone liills, from New York to Kentucky, flowering 

 from June to Aiiguft. Introduced at Kew, in 1806, by 

 his royal highnefs the duke of Kent, according to Mr. 

 Aiton, who marks it as a hardy biennial. Linnxus and 

 others make it perennial ; which the appearance of the plant 

 contradids. The root is fmall, tapering, with a few pale 

 fibres. Slem folitary, near a fpan high, round, jointed, 

 fmooth, reddidi, ereft, leafy ; fimple below ; repeatedly 

 fubdivided, forked and fpreading, above ; the branches di- 

 varicated, capillary, leafy, many-flowered. Leaves oppo- 

 lite, on ihort (talks, obovate, entire, fmooth, from one- 

 fourth to three-fourths of an inch long, covered on both 

 Jides with reddirti dots, which become prominent as the 

 leaves dry. Thefe dots, Linnaeus fays, difappear by cul- 

 ture. Stipules two at each fide, membranous, acute. 

 Floivers very fmall, axillary or lateral, green, on fliort 

 ftalks. Calyx-leaves concave, or vaulted, below the point. 

 'Stamens, according to Michaux, always five in the wild 

 plant ; in the cultivated one often but two. Linnxus juftly 

 points out the refemblance of this herb, at firft fight, to 

 Litmm cathartkum ; but its drift affinity to Ilhcebrum, Poly- 

 gonum, &LC. is far more ilrikiag, as well as its total unlike- 

 nefs to the original Queria ; fo that there can be no doubt 

 of the neceflTity of removing it from the prefent genus, 

 whether the Anychia of Michaux be permanently eftabliflied 

 or not. 



3. Q. irichotmia. Three -forked Queria. Thunb. in 

 Tranf. of the Linn. Soc. v. 2. 329. Willd. n. 3. (Rubia 

 fpicis tcrnis ; Thunb. Jap. 357.) — Flowers racemofe. Stem 

 triply forked. — Native of Japan. — Herl with widely fpread- 

 ing, thread-lhspct', finooth branches. Leaves oppofite, on 

 very fliort ilalks, ovate, acute, nearly entire, fmooth, widely 

 fpreading, as long as the finger nail. CluJItrs axillary, 

 three ; two oppofite, one terminal, compoled of three or 

 four pair of oppofite, minute, deciduous Jloivers. To this 

 defcription Tliunberg adds — " Corolla cylindrical. Fruit 

 inferior, oblong, fmooth." — This muft be altogether a 

 miftake, if the plant has any pretenfions to be reckoned a 

 Queria. Having feen no fpecimen, we leave the matter as 

 we find it. The genus before us muft probably depend on 

 the firft fpecies only ; and whether the charafter of the foli- 

 tary feed, by which alone it Hands diilinguiflied from 

 Minuarlia, be fufficient, there being the ftrifteil conformity 

 in habit and every other particular, we feel much inclined to 

 doubt. 



QUERIGUT, ni Geography, a town of Fr.ince, in the 

 department of the Arriege, and chief place of a canton, in 

 the dillritt of Foix ; 27 miles S.E. of Tarafcon. The 

 place contanis 809, and the canton 2483 inhabitants, on a 

 territory of 1325 kiliometres, in feven communes. 



QUERIMBA, a clufter of iflands, deriving its name 

 from the princip.-il, in the Indian fea, near the coall of 

 Africa ; fertile in dates, oranges, grapes, and other fruits 

 and legumes. The paftures feed great numbers of large and 

 fmall cattle, and the coalls abound with fifli. Thefe iflands, 

 when firft difcovered by the Portugucfe, were inhabited by 

 Arabians ; but at prefent they are chiefly occupied by the 

 defcendants of Portuguefe. S. lat. 12' 20'. — Alfo, a 

 country of Africa, bordering on the coaft. S. lat. 9° to 

 13°. —Alfo, a river of Africa, which runs into the Indian 

 fea, S. lat. 12° id. 



QUERKEINESS, or Kkrkeinks, two iflands in the 

 Mediterranean, near the coall of Tripoli ; one of them 

 about ten miles long and five wide, anciently called " Cer- 



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cina ;" \\\c- other, which is fmalkr, is united to the larger 

 by abridge; 15 miles S.S.E. of cape Oudia. N. lat. 34'' 

 59'. E. long. 1 1 12'. 



QUERO, a town of South America, in the jurifdidtion 

 of Riobamba. 



QUERPO. See Cuerpo. 



gUERQUEDULA, in Ornithology, a fpecies oi Anas. 

 See DurK and Teal. 



QUERRE', in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Mayne and Loire ; 1 2 miles N. of An- 

 gers. 



QUERRIEN, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Finifterre ; fix miles N. of Quimperle. 



QUERRIES, or Equerries. See Equerry. 



QUERRIEUX, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Somme ; fix miles N.E. of Amiens. 



QUERRY, Gentleman nf the, is an officer appointed to 

 hold the king's llirrup, when he mounts on horfeback. 



QUERS, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Upper Saone ; three miles S.E. of Lux- 

 euil. 



QUESADA, a town of Spain, in the provnice of Jaen ; 

 12 miles S.E. of Ubeda. 



QUESENDORF, a town of Pruflia, in the palatinate 

 of Culm ; four miles S.E. of Bretchen. 



QUESNAY, Francis, in Biography, a celebrated 

 French phyfician, was born at Mercy, a little town not very 

 di ft ant from Paris, in 1694. His family were employed in 

 ruftic occupations, and gave him no other education than 

 was deemed neceflary for their mode of life ; fo that at the 

 age of fixteen he was fcarcely able to read. About thit 

 time, however, a thirft for information feized him, and 

 partly by the afliftancc of a coimtry furgeon, and the fevr 

 books that he poffefled, but principally by his own labour* 

 he acquired a knowledge of Latin and Greek, and entered 

 with ardour into the ftudy of the ancient and modern writ- 

 ings on philofophy. In oppofitiou to the grovelling notions 

 of his relations, he refolved to turn his purfuits to medicine, 

 having perceived its conneftion with the various branches of 

 phyfical fcience ; and his maftcr, the furgeon of Ecquevilly, 

 wasfoon convinced of the fuperior acquirements of his pupil, 

 fome of whofe eflays he prefented as his own, on applying 

 for admiflion into the college of St. Come, and they were 

 received with great applaufe. This ftiU farther roufed the 

 zeal of Quefnay, and he repaired to Paris, where he enter. 

 cd with great afliduity into the iludies connefted with the 

 profeffion. After fome time he fettled at Mantes, a confi- 

 derable town in his native province. Here he was difcover- 

 ed by Garengeot, an eminent furgeon, who was engaged 

 with Peyronie in an attempt to cftablifli an academy of (iir- 

 gery, for the colleftion of furgical knowledge. Having 

 written a refutation of the doftrines of Silva, refpefting 

 blood-letting, which led him to a public controverfy, in 

 which he was deemed viftorious by Peyronie, he dif- 

 played fuch profound views, indefatigable zeal, and great 

 general knowledge, as determined Peyronie to appoint him 

 the fecretary of his new academy. This diftinguifhed pofl: 

 raifed him ftill higher in the public eitimation ; but the la- 

 bours connecled with it at length injured his health, which 

 had been for fome time delicate, and he determined to turn 

 his attention to medicine more particularly, and took the 

 degree of doftor of phvfic. He had been employed during 

 the campaigns ef the king, and on the death of M. Ter- 

 ray was appointed confulting phyfician to his majeity ; 

 and was much efteemed and favoured by madame de Pom- 

 padour ; he feems, indeed, to have been much employed, 

 and to have been held in high confidcratien by the dauphin, 

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