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The whole herb has ftraight, prominent, capitate hairs, in- 

 termixed with its downy pubefcence. Roth. 



2. R. cheiranthifo/ia. Stock-leaved Rothia. Roth. 

 Catal. n. 2. Willd. n. 2. Ait. n. 2. (Andryala finuata ; 

 Linn. Sp. PL 1137- A. integrifolia (9 ; Sylt. Nat. ed. 12. 

 v. 2. 525.) — Stem erc£t, corymbofe. Leaves finely woolly, 

 lanceolate, finuated, or deeply toothed ; the uppermoil 

 feflile, ovate, taper-pointed, entire. Native of Spain and 

 the fouth of France, flowering there in May. It is marked 

 in Hort. Kcw. as a hardy annual, flowering in July and 

 Augult. Herb milky, clothed with denfe, white, woolly down, 

 intermixed in the upper part with copious, prominent, capi- 

 tate, tawny hairs, giving it a reddifli hue, efpecially when 

 old. Stem twelve or eighteen inches high ; branched above, 

 at firff. corymbofe, then racemofe. Leaves feflile, alternate, 

 rather diflant, obtufe ; the lower ones about a finger's 

 length, with fliort, triangular, diflant teeth, and inter- 

 mediate finufes ; the uppermofl gradually fmaller and 

 entire. Flower-Jlalts naked, or with here and there a 

 linear iraSea. Calyx of from three to five fcales. Outer 

 fcales of the receptacle like the calyx in structure, but rather 

 longer, very downy at the back ; inner ones fhorter, 

 fmooth, and more membranous. Corolla of a golden yellow 

 in every part. — We cannot help fufpefting that whit Dr. 

 Roth thus defcribes as the outer fcales of the receptacle, do 

 in faft belong to the calyx, which appears to us computed 

 of a row of very numerous equal woolly fcales, furrounded 

 with a few fhorter external ones, as ufual in many of this 

 tribe. 



3. R. runclnata. Hoary Rothia. Roth. Catal. n. 3. 

 Willd. n. 3. Ait. n. 2. (Andryala integrifolia; Linn. 

 Sp. PL 1 1 36. Syft. Nat. ed. 12. v. 2. 525. a. Sonchus 

 lanatus ; Dalech. Hilt. v. 2. 1 1 1 6-) — Stem ereft, corym- 

 bofe. Leaves downy ; the lower ones oblong, runcinate ; 

 upper lanceolate, flightly toothed. Flower-ilalks villous, 

 glandular. — Native of the fouth of Europe. Biennial, 

 twice as large as the foregoing, and varying much in luxu- 

 riance. The lower leaves are ltalked. Whole herb clothed 

 with fine, denfe, velvet-like pubefcence, very thick and 

 woolly about the calyx, which is moreover befet with long 

 golden hairs. Roth, very paradoxically, defcribes the calyx 

 as confiding of only one or two leaflets, or fcales, reckoning 

 as fcales of the receptacle what all the world, furely, would 

 call a calyx. This, therefore, is only a difference of words, 

 and appears (till further to invalidate the diflin&ion between 

 Rothia and Andryala. Thefe plants, in reality, require to 

 be all examined and compared, in a living ftate, by fome 

 botanifl accuftomed to confider genera on a large fcale, 

 and who is particularly acquainted with fyngenefious plants. 

 We do not profefs to be, at prefent, furnifhed with mate- 

 rials for the purpofe. 



Rothia, in Geography, a town of the ifland of St. Vin- 

 cent, in York bay. N. lat. 13 7'. W. long. 6l° 16'. 



ROTHLA, a town of Bavaria, in the territory of Ro- 

 thenburg ; 8 milos N. of Rothcnburg. 



ROTHMUNSTER, a princely abbey of Germany, on 

 the Ncckar, given as an indemnity, in the year 1802, to 

 the prince of Hohenlohe ; 2 miles S. of Rothwcil. 



ROTHWEIL, a town of Wurtemberg, lituated on the 

 Neckar, being a very ancient imperial town, and which the 

 emperors Charles IV. and Wenceflaus engaged to maintain 

 as fuch. It is chiefly remarkable for its imperial tribunal, 

 the firlt traces of which are to be found in the provincial 

 court of Svvabia, which feems to have originated in the time 

 of the emperor Louis of Bavaria, and, till the middle of the 

 1 5th century, was fometimes called the provincial court of 

 the emperor, and fometimes the imperial tribune of Roth- 



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weil. In the year 1 802 it was given to the duke of Wur- 

 temberg ; 44 miles S.S.W. of Stuttgart. N. lat. 48 7'. 

 E. long. 8^ 34'. 



ROTHWELL, called alfo Rowbll, a town and parifh 

 in the hundred of Rothwell, and county of Northampton, 

 England, is fituated 4 miles N.W. by W. from the town 

 of Kettering, and 78 miles N.W. by N. from London. 

 This place is faid to derive its name from two remarkable 

 fprings in the vicinity, the water of one of which is of a 

 petrifying quality, and in the other are frequently found 

 numerous fmall bones, conjectured to be thofe of frogs. 

 Here was a fmall priory of Auguitine nuns, dedicated to St. 

 John Baptift, and which was probably founded by the Clare 

 family, whole fuccellors in the manor appear, upon record, 

 as its patrons. Rothwell was formerly a considerable 

 market-town, but the market has been long difcon- 

 tinued. The market-houfe is worthy of attention, from 

 the (tyle of the building. It was begun by fir Thomas 

 Trefham, but never completed, owing to his death, which 

 happened in the third year of James 1. His fon and 

 fuccefl'or, Francis Trefham, was providentially the inftru- 

 ment of the difcovery of the gunpowder-plot, by fend- 

 ing a letter to lord Monteagle, who had married Mr. 

 Trefham's filler, and thus led to the deteftion of the con- 

 fpiracy. 



In the church are feveral monumental memorials of the 

 Trefham family, and others for different perfons. Rothwell 

 has an annual fair, held on Trinity-Monday. According 

 to the returns to parliament in 181 1, the parifh contains 

 330 houfes, and 1451 inhabitants. 



In the hundred of Rothwell, at Great Oxendon, is a re- 

 markable echo in the belfry of the church-tower. To a 

 perfon (landing at the distance of 673 feet, on the weflern 

 part of the elevated ground on which the church is built, 

 this echo returns diflinftly thirteen fyllables. An echo, 

 but not to an equal extent, is obtainable from the top of an 

 adjacent hill to the fouth ; but fcarcely any exifls on the 

 eastern or northern fides of the tower. But it is faid, that 

 the effeel has lately been considerably diminiflied, by altera- 

 tions which have been made in the belfry-windows. 



Braybrooke church, between Oxendon and Rothwell, 

 exhibits a very curious and highly decorated monument, 

 erefted for fir Nicholas Griffin, knight, who died in 1509. 

 It difplays an aflemblage of pedeflals, fhields, crefls, and 

 other ornaments, very characteristic of the age of queen 

 Elizabeth. 



Kelmarfh-hall, on the one fide of Rothwell, and Rufh- 

 ton-hall, on the other, are noble family manfions ; and the 

 latter in particular is very beautifully fituated. 



Robert Talbot, one of our early Englifh antiquaries, 

 who flourifhed about 1546, was a native of Thorpe Mai 

 for, a village between Rothwell and Kettering. He was 

 the friend and aflbciate of Leland, and both Camden and 

 Burton leem to have made confidcrable ufe of his an- 

 notations on the Itinerary of Antoninus. History, &c. of 

 Northamptonfhire, by Bridges and Whalley, 2 vols, folio. 

 A new edition, with large additions and corrc&ions, of this 

 work, is now preparing by Mr. George Baker of North- 

 amptonfhire. 



ROTHWENSDORF, a town of Saxony, in the 

 margraviatc of Mciflen ; 3 miles S. of Pirna. 



ROTIML, a town of Fez, near the Atlantic. 



ROTKNUSSEL, in Ornithology, a name by which the 

 Germane call the gallinvla melampus of Gefner. It is a bird 

 fomewhat approaching to the fmpc-kind ; its back is brown, 

 with a flight admixture of reddifh, and fome fpots of a dufk) 

 colour ; its wings are variegated with black and white, and 

 4 K its 



