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watching her clothes, an eagle pounced upon one of her 

 fhoes, and carrying it away, flew with it to Memphis, where 

 he let it fall near king Pfammiticus. This prince, admiring 

 the beauty of the (hoe, ordered the officers of his houfehold 

 to feek, throughout all Egypt, the perfon to whom the 

 fhoe appertained. She was found and brought to him ; 

 and he efpoufed her. But how are we to reconcile this 

 fact with her being married to ^Efop ? It is, however, 

 certain, fay the Encyclopxdilts, that this fabulift, notwith- 

 ftanding his deformity and uglinefs, had the art to make 

 himfelf beloved by her. 



RHODOPUS Gallisula, in Ornithology, a name given 

 by fome authors to the bird more ufually known by the 

 name tringa. 



RHODORA, in Botany, fo called by Linnteus, from 

 f'oSov, a rofe, in alluiion to the colour of its flowers, and pro- 

 bably, at the fam* time, to preferve an analogy with its near 

 relation Rhododendrum. — Linn. Gen. 218. Schreb. 294. 

 Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 603. Mart. Mill. Dift. v. 4. Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. v. 3. 49. Purlh v. 1. 298. Ju(T. 159. La- 

 marck Illuftr. t. 364. Clafs and order, Dccandria Mono- 

 gynia. Nat. Ord. Bicornes, Linn. Rhododendra, JufT. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, minute, of one leaf, 

 with five teeth, permanent. Cor. Petals three, unequal ; 

 the two lowerreioft lanceolate, equal ; the upper one 

 wedge-lhaped, afcending, three-lobed, the middle lobe 

 rather longed. Slam. Filaments ten, thread-ihaped, de- 

 clining, the length of the corolla; anthers rounded, two- 

 lobed. Pi/?. Germen ovate, furrowed, fuperior ; ftyle 

 thread-fliaped, declining, rather longer than the ftamens ; 

 ftigma thickeft, abrupt, convex. Parte. Capfule ovate- 

 oblong, with five furrows, of five cells and five valves, the 

 partitions from the indexed margins of the valves. Seeds 

 numerous, minute. 



Ell. Ch. Calyx five-toothed. Corolla of three petals, 

 unequal. Stamens declining. Capfule fuperior, of five 

 cells ; the partitions from the inflexed margins of the 

 valvss. 



I. R. canadenfis. Canadian Rofe-bloflom. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 561. Willd. n. 1. Ait. n. 1. L'Herit. Stirp. v. 1. 

 141. t. 68. Curt. Mag. t. 474. (Chamaerhododendros ; 

 Duham. Sem. Append. 10. t. 27. f. 2, 3.) — Native of 

 Canada and Newfoundland ; very hardy in our gardens, 

 except that, flowering in April and May, its bloffoms are 

 often injured. Curtis fays it bears gentle forcing remark- 

 ably well. Sir Jofeph Banks brought this (hrub to Eng- 

 land in 1767 ; but it flowered at Paris, for the firlt time, in 

 March 1756. Duhamel fuggefted the propriety of efta- 

 blilhing it as a new genus, which Linnseus adopted and 

 named ; but afterwards, having never feen the plant, he 

 ftruck it out, nor did he aflign any reaion for this meafure. 

 The accuracy of Duhamel is, at length, confirmed, and the 

 Rhodora re-eftablifhed. The Jlem is bufhy, ereft, two or 

 three feet high, with round, fmooth, grey or reddilh branches, 

 never quite ftraight. Leaves deciduous, alternate, (talked, 

 elliptical, acute, entire, veiny, hairy, (lightly glaucous, 

 about an inch and half long, and half an inch wide. 

 Flowers appearing before the leaves, in terminal folitary 

 umbels, four or five in each umbel, of a bright elegant 

 rofe colour, with violet anthers, inodorous. Petals fpread- 

 ing, each an inch long. Capfule clothed with rufty down. 



RHOE, in Ancient Geography, a river of Afia Minor, in 

 Bithynia. 



RHCEADEjE, in Botany, the 27th natural order, 

 among the fragmenta of Linna:us ; of which there is no ex- 

 planation in his PrAediones, publiflied by Gifeke. The 

 genera referred hither, at the end of the Gen. PL, are 

 Argemone, Chelidonium, Papaver, Podophyllum, Sanguinaria, 



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Boceonia. We place them according to the manufcript 

 corre&ions of the author, who has fubjoined Cylinus, Arif- 

 tolochia, and A/arum. 



This order, without the additions, which certainly do 

 not belong to it, is equivalent to the firft fection of Jufiieu's 

 Papaverace.*. (See that article.) Its name is taken 

 from the Greek appellation of the field poppy, f'oix.-, Pa- 

 paver Rhxas of Linnseus ; which was fo called from psy, to 

 fall off, becaufe of the (hort duration of its petals. 



RHCEAS, in Surgery, a diminution of the caruncula 

 lachrymalis from difeafe. 



RHCETICO, in Geography, a mountain of Germany, 

 in the county of Pludentz ; 6 miles S. of Pludentz. 



RHCETUM, or Rhoetium, in Ancient Geography, a 

 town of Afia Minor, in the Troade, on the coaft of the 

 Hellefpont. According to Strabo, it was built on an 

 eminence near the tomb of Ajax. The promontory called 

 " Rhoetium" was four miles diftant from that of Sigseum. 



RHCEXUS, a port of Afia, on the coaft of Cilicia, at 

 the mouth of the river Sarus. Steph. Bvz. 



RHCEZIA, in Geography, a city of Perfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Mingrelia, fituated on the Hippus, the ufual re- 

 fidence of the princes of Mingrelia, but which they changed 

 in fummer for Taqueri, a very pleafant fpot, feven verfts 

 S. of Ghoni. In Rhcezia much (ilk is cultivated ; and all 

 that is prepared in the other parts of Mingrelia is alfo car- 

 ried thither, to be fold or manufactured. The manufacture, 

 however, of that commodity is not well underllood, as they 

 only make a poor fort of handkerchiefs, or common taf- 

 feties. 



RHOGE, in Ancient Geography, an iftand on the coaft: 

 of Lycia, placed by Pliny in the vicinity of that of Cyprus. 

 Steph. Byz. 



RHOGME, in Surgery, a rupture or frafture. 

 RHOGMOI, in Ancient Geography, a port of Afia, on 

 the coaft of Cilicia. Steph. Byz. 



RHOGOMANIS, or Rhogonis, a river of Afia, in the 

 Perfidy. Ptolemy places the mouth of this river in the 

 iouthern part of the Perfide, on the Periian gulf. Accord- 

 ing to Nearchus, it was a fmall river, 200 ftadia from the 

 river Granis. 



RHOITES, the name of a medicine among the ancients, 

 which is a fart of rob of the juice of pomegranates. Diof- 

 condes defcribes it as the fimple juice of the fruit, evapo- 

 rated over the fire to the confidence of an extract ; but 

 Paulus ^gineta gives the receipt to be three parts juice of 

 pomegranate, and one part honey, boiled to the evaporation 

 of a third part. So that the rhoites of Diofcorides was a 

 true rob of pomegranates ; the other rather honey of pome- 

 granates, like our honey of rofes. 

 RHOMB. See Rhombus. 



RHOMBITES, in Ancient Geography, a river of Afiatic 

 Sarmatia. Ptolemy. 



RHOMBO, in Ichthyology, the name of a peculiar fifh 

 of the rhombus, or turbot kind, called rhombus aculeatus by 

 Aldrovand, Gefner, and other writers. It is a large fi(h, 

 of an afh-coloured green on the back, and white on the 

 belly. It has no fcales ; but the (kin of its back is divided 

 by lines, fomething in the manner of the (kins of fnakes. 

 The mouth is very large, and is well furnilhed with teeth ; 

 and the palate has a number of tubercles, armed alfo with 

 a fort of teeth. It feeds on fiih, and its flefti is very deli- 

 cate. It is very common in the markets at Venice, and is 

 caught in the neighbouring feas, and in many other places. 

 See Pleuronectes Maximus. 



RHOMBOIDjEUS Major and Minor, in Anatomy, 

 names given by Albinus to what he makes two mufcles, 

 though Window and others account it only one. What 



Window 



