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in 17S1, his fon gave that appellation to another genus, now 

 e ftablilhed under the name of Vahlia, as will hereafter be 

 (hewn when we come to that article. The younger Linnaeus 

 appears to have puzzled himfelf between the words RuJfiTta 

 and Rouffea ; for the latter was what his father had intended ; 

 iee Roussea. The refult of all this confufion is, that Jac- 

 quin's Ruffelia is now finally reilored to its due rank. — Jacq. 

 Amer. 178. Schreb. 419. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 344. 

 Mart. Mill. Didt. v. 4. Ait. Hort. Kew. Epit. 373. 

 Jilff. 118. Lamarck Illuitr. t. 539. — Clafs and order, 

 Didynamia Angiofpermia. Nat. Ord. Perfonata, Linn. 

 Scrophularix, Jufl. 



Gen. Ch. Cat. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, in five deep, 

 ovate, concave, acute, taper-pointed, creft, fmall, permanent 

 fegments. Cor. of one petal, ringent ; tube cylindrical, 

 fomewhat compreffed, ere£t, feveral times longer than the 

 calyx, hairy at the lower fide internally ; limb two-lipped ; 

 the upper lip roundifh, fla 1 , cloven, fpreading, refiexed at 

 thefummit; lower rather the longed, in three deep, oblong, 

 obtufe, flat, widely fpreading fegments. Slam. FiLments 

 lour, thread- (haped, er ft, rather fhorter than the tube, 

 two of them longed ; anthi 1 s ovate. Pi/1- Germen fuperior, 

 ovate; ftyle thread fin ;,ed. ereft, the length of the fhorter 

 itamens ; ftigma glob' fe, undivided. Perk. Capfule roundifh, 

 beaked with the permanent bafe of the ftyle, of two cells 

 and two valves, about as long as the calyx. Seeds numerous, 

 minute. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx in five deep taper-pointed fegments. 

 Upper lip of the corolla emarginate ; lower in three deep 

 fegments; tube much longer than the calyx, hairy within. 

 Sti ;ma globofe. Capfule of two cells, and two valves, 

 with many fmall feeds. 



1. R. farmentofa. Trailing RufTelia. Jacq. Amer. 178. 

 t. 113. Willd. n. 1. — Leaves ovate, nearly feflile. Stalks 

 axillary, three-flowered. Gathered by Jacquin in woods 

 and bulhy places about the Havannah. Theftenih Ihrubby, 

 u ith numerous long, weak, fquare, fmooth, leaty branches, 

 fupporting themfelves againft the neighbouring bullies, and 

 pendulous at the ends. J, eaves oppolite, on very fhort 

 ftalks, ovate, acute, ferratcd ; rather hairy on the margin 

 and upper furface ; fmooth at the back. Flowers about an 

 inch long, inodorous, of a fine red, growing two or three 

 together on axillary ftalks, not fo long as the leaves. The 

 partitions of the capfule, being formed of the indexed valves, 

 probably feparate from the central column as the fruit 

 ripens, and led Jacquin to defcribe the capfule as of one 

 cell. The fame thing is obfervable in Vcrbafcum. 



2. R. rotundifolia. Round-leaved Rullelia. Cavan. Ic. 

 v. 5. 9. t. 415. — Leaves feflile, heart-fliaped, roundifh. 

 Chillers many-flowered, axillary and terminal, in pairs. 

 Gathered by Louis Nee, near Acapulco, flowering and 

 feeding in February, March, and April. The Jlem is ereft, 

 fimibbv, four feet high, with obfeurely quadrangular, 

 downy branches. heaves, about two inches in diameter, 

 almoft orbicular, though fomewhat pointed, reticulated with 

 veins, downy, efpecially when young, broadly icrrated. 

 Plowtrt leaner, fmaller than the preceding, in twin clujlcrs, 

 with fmall Iratleas under each pair of partial (talks. Central 

 column of the capfule hairy. Seeds minute, black. Cavan. 



3. R. multiflora. Many-flowered Rullelia. Sims in 

 Curt. Mag. t. 1528. — Leave-, ovate, pointed, (talked. 

 Chiller terminal, whorled, compound ; the ftalks cymofe. 

 Found by Mr. Cowan, in the mountainous tract of South 

 America, between Vera Cruz and Mexico. Mr. Lambert 

 raifed the plant from feed, and it flowered in his Hove at 

 Bovton in the autumn of 181 2. The flews and branches arc 



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weak and trailing, as in the firfl fpecics ; but the leaves are 

 larger, and the jloiuers much more numerous, compofing 

 denfe whorled clujlcrs at the end>of each branch. Corolla 

 fcarlet, about the fize of R. farmentofa, but the points of 

 the calyx are longer. 



RUSSELL, Lord William, in Biography, a diftin- 

 guiflied patriot and martyr to the caufe of liberty, was the 

 third fon of William, the firft duke of Bedford, by a daughter 

 of the earl of Somerfet. He was born about the year 1641, 

 and was brought up in thofe principles of liberty of which hi* 

 father was an affertor, and which are congenial to the fpirit 

 of the Englilh constitution. Being in the fervour of youth 

 at the time of the reftoration of Charles II. he joined in the 

 gaieties of the ccurt ; till his marriage in 1667, with Rachel, 

 fecond daughter and co-heirefs of the earl of Southampton, 

 reclaimed him from any irregularities into which he had fallen, 

 and from this time he bore a molt unblemifhed chara&er. 

 In four parliaments he reprefented the county of Bedford, 

 highly efteemed for his patriotifm and independent fpirit. 

 He was looked up to as one of the heads of the Whig 

 party. 



"Apolitical intrigue of this period," fays one of his 

 lordlhip's biographers, " has brought an imputation on his 

 memory, from which different methods have been taken to 

 clear it. Charles II., one of the mod profligate of public 

 characters, had been exafperated againft the court of France, 

 by the withdrawing, on account of the marriage of the 

 duke of York's daughter to the prince of Orange, that 

 penfion which he had hitherto been mean enough to receive, 

 and he appeared defirous of joining the continental confede- 

 racy againft Lewis XIV. A French war being alway9 po- 

 pular in England, the parliament voted a large fupply of 

 men and money for the purpofe. The patriots, however, 

 knowing that Charles was not to be milled, and being at 

 the fame time full of alarms refpe&ing popery and arbitrary 

 power, were very unwilling to give him the difpotal of an 

 army, which might as probably be employed againft the 

 liberties of the country, as againft France. In this point, 

 therefore, their withes coincided with thofe of Lewi6, in 

 railing an oppofition to the meafurcs of the Englifh court : 

 and by means of a M. de Kouvigny, who was a relation of 

 lady Rufl'ell, they intrigued with Barillon, the French am- 

 bafl'ador in England. From that minilter's private difpatehes, 

 fir John Dalrymple copied, and publilhcd in his ■ Memoirs 

 of Great Britain,' his negotiations on this head, and alfo a 

 lift of members of parliament whom he had actually bribed." 

 Lord W. Ruffell is not charged with being one of the number 

 bribed ; he and lord Hollis, it is affertcd, politively refufed 

 to accept of money. There feems, however, little reafon 

 to doubt that he took a part in the intrigue. His in- 

 tentions, no doubt, were perfectly upright : he was zea- 

 loufly inclined to defend the Proteftant intcrelt, which he 

 faw was in imminent danger, and he hoped, by tin.* courfe 

 which was now taken, the blow might be warded off. To 

 his good intentions, therefore, his biographers mull appeal 

 for the jullification of a ftcp confeffedly of a fufpicious na- 

 ture, and not confident with correct policy. 



In the year 1679, tnc k' n g found it expedient to ingrati- 

 ate himfelf with the Whigs, by the appointment of a new 

 privy council, of which lord Shaftelbury was prclident, and 

 lord William Ruffell was a member. They foon found that 

 they did not enjoy the king's confidence, who engaged in 

 foiue important meafures without their concurrence, amonf; 

 which waa the recall of the duke of York ; feveral of them 

 religned, and lord Rullell among the number. His fenfe oi" 

 the danger to the Proteftant religion from a Catholic fucceflbr, 



5 A induced! 



