-Trees or 



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fjyle- Fruit of one cell, with one er more feeds. 

 (hrubs, fometimes dedicate of petals. 



Tigarea of Aublet ; Delima, Prochia, and Hirtella of 

 Linnaeus. 



Seft. 7. Amygdale/E. G.ermen fugle, fuperior, -with 

 one Jlyle. Nut either naked, or more vfually invefled with a 

 pulpy coat, and containing one or two feeds. 



Hedycrea of Schreber, which is Aublet's Licania ; Gran- 

 geria of Commerfon ; Chryfobalamts of Linnaeus ; Cerafus, 

 Primus and Armeniaca of Tournefort, all three included in 

 the Linnacan Prunus ; Amygdahs of Tournefort and Lin- 

 naeus, including Perfica of the former ; Moquilea, Couepia, 

 and Acioa of Aublet, (the latter Schreber's Acid); and 

 Parinari of Aublet, which is Schreber's Petrocarya. 



Sec/t. 3. Genera akin to the Rofacex. 



Plinia of Plumier and Linnaeus, the uncertainty ot whole 

 hiftory we have fully explained ; fee Plinia. 



Calycanthus, allied by its fruit to Rofa, but the leaves 

 are oppofite and fimple, and the flower in a manner 

 apetalous. 



Ludia of Commerfon ; BlachweUia of the fame author ; 

 Homalium of Jacquin and Linnaeus ; and Napimoga of 

 Aublet. The three lad appear to conftitute one genus ; 

 fee Homalium. 



ROSACEOUS Corolla, is one which confids of 

 feveral petals ranged in a circle ; fo that, according to 

 Tournefort's acceptation of the word, it includes, not only 

 the natural order of RosACEiE, (fee that article,) and other 

 flowers agreeing therewith in having moflly five petals, as 

 Ranunculus ; but even fuch as have only two, like Girc<ta. 

 The author is obliged to exclude the Cruciform and Um- 

 belliferous plants from this order by a particular and 

 arbitrary exception ; for according to his primary idea, 

 it would admit every polypetalous regular flower, as 

 well as fome that are irregular, as Cajfia, &c. See Co- 



UOLLA. 



ROSACLORUM, or, according to fome authors, Rofi- 

 chiero, a fine red ufed to enamel on gold with. It is pre- 

 pared in this manner : take ten pounds of cryilal-glafs, 

 put it into a pot, and when it is well melted, add to it, at 

 twice, a pound of the bell red-lead ; llir the mafs well 

 together, and afterward; cad it into water. Repeat this 

 procefs three times, then when the matter is again in fufion, 

 mix with it live ounces of calcined brafs, and the fame 

 quantity of the deeped cinnabar ; dir the whole well to- 

 gether, and let it fettle three hours ; then add of glafs of 

 tin three ounces, mix the whole, and it will be of a fine 

 rofe-colour. Merret's Notes on Neri, p. 350. 



ROSADE, a kind of liquor, prepared of pounded 

 almonds and milk, mixed with clarified fugar. 



ROSALBA, CaRRIKRAj in Biography, was of Chiozza, 

 and carried crayon painting to a high degree of perfection. 

 Orlandi celebrates her miniatures. Her crayon painting 

 arrives, not feldom, at the drength of painting in oil. Her 

 portraits fpread all over Europe, are as elegant and graceful 

 in conception and attitude, as frefh, neat, and alluring in 

 colour. Her Madonnas, and other facred fubjeds, rife from 

 grace to dignity, and even majefly. Equal and inccll.uit 

 application deprived her of fight during the lad ten years 

 of her life. She died in 1757, at the age of 82. 



Rofalba is celebrated by Walther for her mufical talents 

 and cxquilite talte in tinging. 



ROSALE, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Ears, or Far fi dan ; 15 miles W. of Kazeron. 



ROSALGATE, Caps. See Rasalgata. 



ROSALIA, a name ufed by authors for the mealies or 



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a dileafe very !fke the meafles, confiding of a number of afpe- 

 rities and protuberances of the (kin, which foen die away. 



Rosalia, in Mufc. See Repetition's. 



ROSALIND, a mafk, written by Lockman, fet by 

 Smith for Hickford's rooms, and performed there in dill 

 life, oratorio wife, in 1740. This little drama would not 

 be mentioned here, as the poetry is upon a level with Mr. 

 Lockman's other productions ; and of the mufic we know 

 nothing, as it was never published. But as, " to raifc 

 the pamphlet price a (hilling," the poetry is preceded by 

 " inquiries into the origin of operas." 



ROSAMARINA, in Geography, a town of Sicily, in 

 the valley of Demona, at the mouth of a river of the 

 fame name, which runs into the fea, 10 miles N.E. of 

 Midretta. 



ROSAMOND, in Biography, daughter of lord Clif- 

 ford, was a young lady of great beauty, fine accomplifh- 

 ments, and endowed with the mod engaging wit and fweet- 

 nefs of temper. She had been educated, according to the 

 cudom of the times, in the nunnery of Goddow, and the 

 popular hidory of her is as follows. Henry II. of England 

 faw her, was fmitten with her beauty, and triumphed over 

 her honour. To avoid the jealoufy ot his queen, Eleanor, 

 he kept her in a labyrinth at Woodllock, and by his con- 

 nection with her had two children, who were afterwards 

 William Longfword, earl of Salifbury, and Geoffrey, 

 bifhop of Lincoln. On Henry's abfence in France, the 

 queen found means to difcover her, and, jealous of her great 

 beauty, caufed her to be poifoned. This ilory is not well 

 fupported by hidorical documents. Several writers men- 

 tion no more of her, than that the queen caufed her to be 

 fo harafTed, that (he did not long furvive after die was 

 difcovered. Other writers aflert, that (he died a nat 

 death, and the dory of her being poifoned is luppofed 1 

 have arifen from the figure of a cup being placed on her 

 tomb. She was buried in the church of Goddow, op- 

 pofite to the high altar, where her body remained till it 

 was ordered to be removed with every mark of difgrace by 

 Hugh, bihhop of Lincoln, in 1191. By many, however, 

 (lie has been regarded as a faint, but her hidory is in every 

 refpect very uncertain. See Grofe's Antiq. of Eng. and 

 Wales. 



Rosamond, an Englifh opera, written by Addifon on 

 the Italian model. After the great fuccefs of Arlinoe and 

 Camilla in 1705 and 1706, in which the dialogue was 

 wholly fpoken in recitative, and the performers all Englifli 

 fingers; in I 707, notwithllanding the deficiencies of thofe 

 dramas in poetry, mufic, and performance (tor as yet no 

 foreign compofer or captivating finger was arrived) this 

 kind of exhibition became fo formidable to our own aftors, 

 that a fubfeription was opened the beginning of tint year, 

 " for the encouragement of the eomcdia-.is afting in the 

 Haymarket, and to enable them to keep the diverfion of 

 plays under a fcparate interett from operas." Daily 

 Courant, January 14th, Cibber gives a circumdanti.il ac- 

 count of this humiliating tranfaftion, and fpe.iks ot its fuc- 

 cefs with confiderable triumph. See CLAYTON. 



The verfes of Rolamond are highly poliflied, aid more 

 lyrical perhaps than in any poem of the (ame kind in our 

 language. And yet this drama is not wholly free from 

 opera abfurdities, on which Addifon was attcrwards lo 

 feverely pleafant. For indance, the king's approach to 

 the fecret bower of blifs, where his fair Rolamond was 

 trcafurcd up from the relentment of hit jealous queen, is 

 always announced and publifhed by a loud concert ot mil 

 tary inilruments: Aft i. fc. 1. 



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