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vince of Nicaragua ; 70 miles N.N.E. of Leon. N. lat. 

 13° 30'. W. long. 89" ;&. — Alfo, a town of South Ame- 

 rica, in the government of Caraccas, and province of Vene- 

 zuela, founded by the Spaniards in 1552 ; 130 miles S.W. of 

 Caraccas. N. lat. 8° 50'. W. long. 68° 16'. 



Segovia, Nueva, or Tare, a river of Mexico, in the pro- 

 vince of Colta Rica, which runs into the Spanifh Main, N. 

 lat. 13° 10'. W. long. 83° j'. 



SEGRA, a river of Spain, which rifes in the N. part of 

 Catalonia, and joins the Ebro, on the borders of Aragon, 

 near Mequinez. 



SEGRAIS, John Regnault de, in Biography, a man 

 of letters, was born of a good family at Caen, in 1624. He 

 was intended for the church, but a courtier, charmed with the 

 fprightlinefs of his converfation, carried him to Paris when 

 he was about twenty years of age, and placed him with 

 Mademoifelle de Montpenfier, who firft gave him the title of 

 her almoner in ordinary, and then of her gentleman in ordinary. 

 He became known to the literary world by his lyric and paf- 

 toral poetry, and in 1656 he publifhed a collection of pieces 

 of this kind, together with fome little ftories called " Nou- 

 velles Frangoifes," by vvhicli he obtained confidcrable repu- 

 tation. He was thought to have been particularly luippy in 

 his Eclogues, in which he attempted to unite elegance with 

 the fimpTicity appropriate to his fubjeft. He aimed at a 

 higher (train in his metrical tranflation of Virgil's ^neid, 

 which was well received by the public, though it was not 

 free from faults, which were heavy drawbacks on its merit. 

 The reputation of Segrais gave him adminion,in the year 1662, 

 into the French Academy. In 1672 he quitted Mademoifelle 

 de Montpeniier, and was domefticated with Madame de la 

 Fayette, whom he allifted with his advice and correftion in 

 the compofition of her romance of " Zayde," and he en- 

 gaged his friend the learned Huet to prefix to it his Differta- 

 tion on Romances. He at length retired to his native city, 

 and married a richheirefs, who washiscoufin. Being now 

 at his eafe, and fomewhat incommoded with deafnefs, he de- 

 chned engaging in the education of the duke of Maine, ob- 

 ferving that experience had taught him that at court both 

 good eyes and good ears are req\iirite. He collected the dif- 

 perfcd members of the academy of Caen, and gave them an 

 apartment to meet in. He died in 1701, at the age of 76. 

 After his de.ath, there appeared his tranflation of Virgil's 

 " Gcorgics," and a mifcellany of anecdotes and literary 

 opinions. 



SEGRE', in Geography, a town of France, and principal 

 place of a diftrift, in the department of the Maine and Loire ; 

 18 miles N.W. of Angers. The place contains 558, and 

 the canton 9147 inhabitants, on a territory of 205 kilio- 

 metres, in 15 communes. 



SEGREANT, a term ufed in Heraldry for a griffon, 

 when drawn in a leaping polture, and difplaying his wings, 

 as if ready to fly. 



SEGREGATA, Polvgamia, in Botany, the laft order 

 of the clafs Syngenejla, in which the flowers are doubly com- 

 pound, each floret, or allcmblage of florets, having a partial 

 calyx. 



SEGRO, in Geography, a town of Naples, in Capitanata ; 

 10 miles N.E. of Manfredonia. 



SEGS, in Rural Economy, provincially the name applied 

 to fedges, or fedge-grafs. 



SEGSTADT, in Geography, a town of the duchy of 

 Wurzburg ; 5 miles E. of Hasfurt. 



SEGUATANEIO. See Chequetan. 



SEGUE, in Italian Mufic, is often found before aria, 

 loro, allelujah, amen, &c. to acquaint performers that fuch 

 movement* immediately follow the lait bar of the preceding 



piece, over or after which fuch notice is written. But if the 

 v/ordsji piace, or aJ liiitum, are added, they imply that fuch 

 movements may be performed or not, at pleafure. 



SEGUENZA, Ital. in Ecclejiajlical Mujic, is a kind of 

 hymn fung in the Roman church, generally in profe. The 

 feguenze are generally fung after the Gradual, immediately 

 before the Gofpels, and fometimes in the vcfpers before the 

 Magnificat. They were formerly more ufed than at prefent. 

 The Romifh church has retained three feguenze, called by the 

 Italians, li tre feguenze de/P anno ; which are, " Lauda Sion 

 falvatorem," &c. ; " Vittima pafchali laudes," &c. " Veni 

 Sanfte Spiritus." Thefe are fung, in many places, to figura- 

 tive mufic. There is alfo one beginning " Dies nx, dic^ 

 ille," in the funeral fervice, which has been admirably fet by 

 all the great compoiers a cappella of Italy, and among the 

 Catholics of Germany. 



SEGUIERIA, in Botany, named by Linnaeus in honour 

 of his friend and correfpondent John Francis Seguier, fecre- 

 tary to the Academy of Sciences at Nifmes, in Languedoc, 

 who was the author of an excellent and original work, enti- 

 tled Plantte Veronenfes, publifhed in two volumes oftavo, in 

 the year 1745, ^"'^ '° which a third fupplementary volume 

 was added in 1754. Seguier died in 1784. — Loefl. It. 191. 

 Linn. Gen. 272. Schreb. 364. Jacq. Amer. 176. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. V. 2. 12 19. Mart. Mill. Dia. v. 4. JulT. 440. 

 Lamarck Dift. v. 7. 52. Loureir. Cochinoh. 341. — Clafs 

 and order, Polyandria Moncgynia. Nat. Ord. uncertain. 



Gen. Cii. Cal. Perianth inferior, fproading, permanent, 

 of five, oblong, coloured, concave leaves. Cor. none. Stam. 

 Filaments numerous, capillary, fpreading, longer than the 

 calyx ; anthers oblong, flattifh. Pi/l. Gernien fuperior, 

 oblong, comprefTed, membranous at the top, tllicker on 

 one fide ; itvle very (hort, at the thicker fide of the germen ; 

 ftigma fimple. Peric. Capfule oblong, augmented by a 

 very large wing, thicker on the ftraight fide, with three 

 fmallcr wings on each fide at the bale, of one cell, not 

 gaping. Seed folitary, oblong, fmooth. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx of five leaves. Corolla none. Capfulc 

 terminated by a lar^e wing, and furnidied with fmaller la- 

 teral wings. Seed folitary. 



1. S. americana. American Seguieria. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 747. Jacq. Amer. 170. « Pi£t. t. 82." — Stem climbing, 

 pnckly. Leaves lanceolate, emarginate. Clutters branched, 

 leafy. — Native of South America, efpecially in woods and 

 coppices about Carthagena, flowering in September. The 



Jlem of this flirub is generally twelve feet in height, with 

 very long, round, green fliining branches, by which it is 

 fupported. Leaves alternate, (talked, ovate, entire, (hining, 

 with recurved prickles. Flo'wers in terminal clufters, 

 whitifli, fmelling difagreeably. The unripe fruit is faid to 

 refemble that of Sccuridaca. 



2. S. afiatica. Afiatic Seguieria. Loureir. Cochinch. 

 341. — Stem climbing, without prickles. Leaves ovate, 

 entire. Clufters long, axillary, terminal. — Native of woods 

 in Cochinchina. Stem (hrubby, branched, round, long, 

 tough. Leaves alternate, on fliort italks, rough. Floivers 

 in long terminal clulters, whitifti-green, fcentlefs. 



SEGUIN Island, in Geography, a fmall ifiand on the 

 coafl; of Maine, in Cafco bay. 



SEGULAM, one of the Fox iflands, in the North Pa- 

 cific ocean. N. lat. 53° 35'. E. long. 1 87° 50'. 



SEGUNTIA Ckltiberum, in Ancient Geography, a 

 town of Spain, in Celtiberia. Livy. 



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

 partment of the Correze ; 12 miles W. of Uzerche. — 

 Alfo, a town of France, in the department of the Aveiron ; 

 12 miles E.S.E. of Rhodez. 



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