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aflies, for fix hours, then adding a pint of red port, and 

 diffolving in the flrained hqiior nine pounds of fugar. But 

 the only preparation of the quince wliich it now din-As is, 

 a mucilage of the feeds, made by boiling a drachm of the 

 feeds in eight ounces of water, till it acquires a proper con- 

 fiftence. This has been recommended in aphthous affec- 

 tions, and excoriations of the mouth and fauces : however, 

 though it may be a more pleafant mucilage, it is certainly 

 lefs efficacious than that of the fimple quince. Lewis and 

 Woodville. 



Aa ufeful reRringent marmalade is made by boiling tlie 

 juice with fine fugar to a due confitlence, in the proportion 

 commonly of three pints to a pound. The juice of quinces 

 becomes richer, by keeping them for fome time, after they 

 are gathered, in a dry airy place. 



Quince IJlan4, in Geography, a fmallifland near the S.W. 

 coail: of Ireland, and county of Cork ; five miles W. of 

 Gaily-Head. 



QUINCHAC, a fmall ifland in the Pacific ocean, between 

 the ifland of Chiloe and the continent of Chili. S. lat. 



43° 30'- 



QUINCHAMALA, m Botany, altered by Willdenow, 



one can fcarcely fee with what reafon or advantage, from 

 Ottinchatnalwrn of Juflieu, a barbarous and totally exception- 

 able name, taken from the Peruvian Quinchamcili. — Willd. 

 Sp. PI. V. I. 12 1 7. Mart. Mill. Ditt. v. 4. Juil. 75. 

 Lamarck Illuftr. t. 142. — Clafs and order, Paitamlria 

 Monogynia. Nat. Ord. EUagnl, Julf. Rather perhaps Rii- 

 h'tacee. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth fuperior, of one leaf, in four 

 deep, ovate, unequal fegments, one larger than the reft. 

 Cor. of one petal ; tube funnel-fhaped, much longer than 

 the calyx, quadrangular, curved ; limb in five lanceolate, 

 acute, fpreading fegments. Stam. Filaments five, very 

 ftiort, inferted into the top of the tube ; anthers oblong, 

 the length of the limb. P'Jl- Germeu roundifh ; ilyle 

 thread-fhaped, the length of the tube ; ftigma capitate. 

 Perk. Berry (rather drupa) roundifh. 5W iolitary. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx in four unequal fegments, fuperior. 

 Corolla funnel-lhaped, five-cleft. Stigma capitate, undivided. 

 Drupa dry. 



I. (^. chUenfis. Willd. n. i. (Qninchamali lini folio; 

 Feuill. Plantes Medccinales, 57. t. 44. ) — Gathered by 

 Feuillfe on the mountains of Chili, and by Dombey, among 

 ftones on the hills about Lmia, flowering in December and 

 January.' The root is annual, compofed of a few fimple 

 yellow fibres. Stems feveral, proftrate, fimple, round, leafy, 

 from four to fix inches long. Leaves fcattered, feliile, linear, 

 entire, flefhy, fmooth, bluntifli with a fmall point. Floiuers 

 in fimple, terminal, folitary, denfe fpikes. Corolla green ex- 

 ternally, of a faffron yellow within. Seed round, uncon- 

 nefted. — We have taken the- generic charafter, and the de- 

 fcription, from Dombey's manufci-ipt, compared with one of 

 his original fpecimens. The _/;-z/;V appears to be a ilnipa, (he 

 terms it ^acca,) tin* fize of hemp-leed, whofe coat becomes 

 coriaceous by drying, and feparates, along with the perma- 

 nent calyx at its lummit, irovcyihzfeed, or micktis, to whofe 

 upper part the corolla remains attached. Juflieu, Lamarck, 

 and Willdenow, having formed their ideas from dried fpe- 

 cimens only, take the coat of the drupa for an inferior 

 ealyx, and the firll of thefe writers conceives the floicer to 

 coniilt of a fuperior inner calyx, to which he was led by an 

 idea of the affinity of this genus to Thcfium. Willdenow, 

 not adverting to any fuch affinity, terms the inner calyx of 

 Juflieu, a corolla, wiiich agrees with the opinion of Dombey, 

 the only botanilt who has examined the living plant, and 

 by whofe authority we are led to confider the true cahx as 



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fuperior. If we are riglit, this genus will belong to the 



natural order of Rubiacea, nolwithllauding its fohtary/f?^. 



Dombey exprefsly fays ir is akin to Morinda. 



Feuillee relates, that the Indians take a decoftion of this 



plant for internal dilorders, efpecially wlien they believe 

 themfelves labouring under an internal abfcefs, of which 

 there is no external appearance. The decoftion, taken 

 warm, is fuppofed to break the abfcefs, and to caufe an eva- 

 cuation of its contents by the ufual paii'ages. 



QUINCUNX, Qii'mque uncia, denotes a thing that con- 

 fifts of five twelfth parts of another. 



Quincunx, m Gardenhig, is l^e name of a form of plant, 

 ing in which trees are planted by fives, four of them form. 



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 ing a fquare, and the fifth placed in the middle, thus, '• 



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 and which may be repeated over and over again in one con- 

 tinucd plantation, with as many trees in feveral ranges as 

 may be proper. It was formerly a fafhionable mode of plant- 

 ing groves and other regular plantations, but is now lef» 

 common. It is feen more fully below : 



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Something of this mode of arrangement has always a good 

 effeft in the difpofitiun of Ihrubby plants, &c. though not 

 in the regular order of it, but fomething nearly fo, which 

 gives the ihrubs a gre.nter fcope of growth, and (hews them 

 to greater advantage. It is likewife a mode of planting that 

 is proper in the kitchen-garden, in tranfplanting many kinds 

 of efculent plants ; fuch as lettuces, endive, Itrawberries, 

 and even all the cabbage kinds, and many other plants, which 

 gives them a greater fcope to grow than if planted exaftly 

 fquare at the fame diilance from each other. 



It is of this kind of quincunx that Cicero fpeaks, in his 

 Cato Major ; aiW Quintilian, lib. viii. cap. 3. 



The modern quincunces, Daviler obferves, are made hke 

 thofe of the ancients, except for the fifth tree, which is now 

 generally difufed ; fo that, being as it were netted, and their 

 alleys viewed by the fide of the reftangle, they formed a 

 perfeft chequer. 



Quincunx, in AJlronomy, Sec. denotes a pofition, or 

 afpedf of the planets when difhmt from each other a hundred 

 and fifty degrees, or five figns. 



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

 partment of the Seine and Marne ; fix miles S.W. of 

 Meaux. 



QuiNCV, a poft-town of America, in Norfolk county, 

 Maffachufetts, taken from Braintree ; 10 miles S. of 

 Bofton. It contains 1281 inhabitants, moll of whom are 

 farmers ; but large quantities of (hoes and boots are manu- 

 faftured for exportation. The town has an epifcopal and 

 congregational church. 



QUIN DECAGON, in Geometry, a plain figure which 

 has fifteen fides and fifteen angles. 



The wo'-d is formed fomewhal irregularly, from the Latin 

 quhique. Jive, and the Greek i -.a, ten, and yunK, angle. Pen- 

 tedecagon would be a more regular term. 



If the fides be all equal, it is a regular quindecagOH. 



Euclid fhews how to infcribeit in a circle, prop. xvi. lib. 4. 

 And the fide of a regular quindecagon fo defcribed, is 

 equal in power to the half-diSerence between the fide of the 

 equilateral triangle, and fide of the pentagon ; and alfo to 

 the difference of the perpendiculars let fall on both fides, 

 taken to^^-ether. 



QUINDECIM VIR, XV. VIR. a Roman magiftrate, 



who 



