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Sella, among the Romans, a chair in which the old and 

 infirm are carried by fervants through the city, and in 

 journeys. Sometimes the phyficians prefcribed it as an 

 exercife. See Lectica. 



Sella Curu/is, among the Romans. See Curule chair. 



Sella Equina, Turcica, or Sphenoides, in Anatomy, is a 

 name given to the four apophyfes of the os fphenoides, or 

 cuneiforme, in the brain ; in regard of their forming a re- 

 femblance of a faddlc, which the Latins cs^ fella. 



They are fometimes alfo called by the Greek name 

 clinoides. In it is contained the pituitary gland, and in 

 fome beafts, the rete mirabile. 



SELLA RE, in Geography, a town of Naples, in 

 Calabria Ultra ; l6 miles N.E. of Bova. 



SELLASIA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Laconia, 

 S.W. of Glympes, on the river Oenus. It was dellroyed 

 in the timeof Paufaiiias. WhenT.Quiiitius Flaminius palled 

 into the Peloponnefus, 19^ years B. C, to deliver Greece 

 from the yoke of the tyrants who opprelled it, he fo- 

 journed near this place ; but a little after this time, it vx'as 

 dellroyed by Aratus, the conqueror of the Laceda;monians. 

 Towards the N.W. was a mountain, which bore the name 

 of Mount Olympus. The famous battle of Sellafia, in the 

 year 122 B. C., was fought between this mountain and Eva. 

 Antigonas, king of Macedonia, was at the head of the 

 Achxans, and Cleomenes, king of Sparta, commanded the 

 Lacedemonians. This laft, having been entirely defeated, 

 returned into Egypt to king Ptolemy Philadelphus. 



SELLA Y, in Geography, a fmall ifland of the Hebrides, 

 in the diltrift of Harris and county of Iiivernefs, Scotland. 

 It is about a mile in circumference, and yields excellent paf- 

 ture for fheep. 



SELLE, a town of France, in the department of the Can- 

 tal ; 6 miles S. of Aunllac. — Alfo, a river of France, which 

 runs into the Scheldt, about fix miles above Valenciennes. 



SELLE-fur-Bieei, La, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Loiret ; 7 miles N.E. of Montargis. 



SELLEE, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat ; 25 

 miles S.E. of Mahmoodabad. 



SEI^LEF, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak ; 

 110 miles E. of Ifpahan. 



SELLEIS, in Ancient Geography, a river of the Pelo- 

 ponnefus, in Sicyonia. Strabo places the village Ephyra 

 on the bank of this river. — Alfo, a river of jEtoha, in 

 Agraea, according to Strabo. — Alfo, a river of Alia Minor, 

 in the Troade, which watered the town of Arifta, according 

 to Homer, cited by Strabo. 



SELLEMPOLTR, in Geography, a town of HindooHan, 

 in Oude ; 42 miles S.E. «f Gooracpour, N. lat. 26° 1 5'. 

 E. long. 84° 12'. 



SELLES, in Ancient Geography, a people who, accord- 

 ing to Homer, fixed their feat, together with the Perrhaebi, 

 in the environs of Dodona ; but he mull be underftood to 

 mean that they were rather minifters of the temple than a 

 diftinft people. Strabo, however, fays, that a barbarous 

 people of this denomination inhabited the environs of 

 Dodona. 



Sf:i.LES-/ur-Cher, in Geografihv, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Loire anc Cher, and chief place of a 

 canton, in the diltritl of Romorantin ; 14 miles S.W. of 

 Romorantin. The place contains 3400, and the canton 

 6745 inhabitants, on a territory of 325 kihometres, in 9 

 conuiiunes. 



SELLI, in Ancient Geography, a people of Afia, in the 

 Troade. 



Selli, lAAoi, in Antiquity, an appellation given to thofe 

 who firlt delivered oracles. Thefe, according to Strabo 



and Euttathius, were men, and the mmt felli is faid to come 

 from SelU, a town in Epirus, or from the river called by 

 Homer Selleis. 



SELLIA, in Geography, a town of Naples, in Calabria 

 Ultra ; 4 miles NN.E. of St. Severina. 



SELLI ERA, in Botany, a genus dedicated by Cava- 

 nilles to a Parifian engraver, Natalis Sellier, who executed 

 the plates of the firlt and fecond volume of Cavanilles' 

 /cones, and alfo of his Monadelphia. — Cavan. Ic. v. 5. 49. 

 De Thcis, 427. — Clafs and order, Pentandria Monogynia. 

 Nat. Ord. . . . 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth fuperior, permanent, deeply 

 five-cleft. Cor. of one petal, irregular ; tube cloven lon- 

 gitudinally to the bafe ; limb afcending, cloven into five, 

 lanceolate fegments. Stam. Filaments five, placed in aa 

 ereft manner on the germen, furrounding the ftyle ; anthers 

 ovate, erecl. Pijl. Germen inferior, ovate, turban-fhaped ; 

 flyle fimple, incurved, longer than the filaments ; iligma 

 globular, truncated. Peric. Berry ovate-turbinate, crowned 

 by the calyx, of one cell and many feeds. Seeds ovate, 

 comprefTcd, roughifh. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx fuperior, five-cleft. Tube cloven lon- 

 gitudinally to its bafe. Berry of one cell and many feedi. 



I. S. radicans. Cavan. Ic. v. 5. t. 474. f. 2. — Native 

 of the moiil maritime parts of Chih, flowering between 

 February and May. — Stem proltrate, hairy, a foot high, 

 fending out fibrous roots. Branches fcarcely more than an 

 inch long. Leaves alternate, fpatulate, entire, cluftered at 

 the axils. Floiuers blue and white, either terminating the 

 branches, or axillary, on folitary ilalks, which have two 

 awl-fhaped brafteas in the middle. — Cavanilles defcribcd 

 this elegant little plant from a dried fpecimen only. He 

 fays that it differs from Scrsvola in its fruit, which he fuf- 

 pcdls to be fucculent, as in Paffijlora ; for after immerfing 

 the berry in warm water, he found it abounded with little 

 moill cavitits containing a glutinous fluid. 



SELLIERS, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Jura ; 9 miles W. of Poligny. 



SELLIGA, in the Materia Medica, a name by which 

 fome authors have called the narda Celta, or Celtic fpike- 

 nard of the fliops. 



SELLINAGUR, in Geography, a town of Hindooltan, 

 in Oude, on the left bank of the Ganges ; 60 miles W. *f 

 Kairabad. 



SELLING 0/ Land, in Rural PraBices, the bufinefs of 

 difpofiug of or transfernng it from one to another for a cer- 

 tain IHpulated fum. There are different modes of effetling 

 this, according to Mr. Marfball, as by public biddings, 

 and private contrail or agreement, in each of which a pro- 

 per deg. oe of precaution is rcquifite. In the former, a» 

 the conditions are fixed, an accurate valuation affords the 

 grtatell lafety ; and in the latter, with upright intentions, 

 little more is necefl^ary. In particular cafes, however, 

 where a landed eltate has fallen i;uo bad hands, more caution 

 may be required, and it may be occafionally neceP.ary to 

 call in the profeflional aid of thofe who, from the nature 

 of their rnployincnt, are upon their guard againft all ions 

 of trick and >-ur,iiing. It is fuggeilcd as :.igtly improper 

 to make ufe of the perfon who is to examine the title and 

 adjnll the de^^d of conveyance, to cnrry on the bufinefs of 

 purch.iri:ig an ellate ; — of whofe value and ufes he is profef- 

 fioiiully ignorant ; as the iircfolutioii, want of decitioi, the 

 confequent miflakes, and the neccffary delays, that will 

 always at'cnd the negociatious of men who are coi.fcious 

 of a want r f knowledge in the fubj' Cl they are employed to 

 treat on, nmit ever tend to the difadvantage of their em- 

 ployers. Tiie above writer bae known f« many iuftances 



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