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but they were principally promulgated by himfelf under the 

 following; titles : •' Quxltionum Medicarum controverfarum 

 Liber ;" 1 609. " Inititutiones Medicse, et de Origine ani- 

 marum in Brutis ;" 161 1. " Epitome Scientia Natu- 

 ralis ;" 1618. " De Febribus Libri quatuor ;" 1619. 

 " De Scorbuto Traftatusf;" 1624. " Praftica: Medicinae 

 Liber primus ;" 1628. Five other books of the fame work 

 were fucceflively publifhed. " Traftatus de Arthritide ;" 

 163 1. " Epitome Iiiftitutionum Medicarum difputationibus 

 l8 comprehenfa ;" 1631. " Epitome Inft. Med. et Librorum 

 de Febribus;" 1634. " Hypomnemata phyfica;" 1635; 

 and one or two fmall works of lefs note. Almoft all thefe 

 works have paded through many editions and tranflations. 

 See Eloy D'Ct. Hift. de la Med. Vita Dan. Sennerti, pre- 

 fixed to hh " Opera omnia." 



SENNIT, [of fiven md knit,) a fort of flat, braided 

 cordage, formed by platting five or feven rope-yarns toge- 

 ther. This is beaten fmooth and flat with a hammer, 

 and fervts to keep the ropes to which it is applied from 

 galling. 



SENNONE, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Medi- 

 terranean, near the coalt ot Naples. N. lat. 41° 3'. E. 

 long. 1 1 °. 



SENO, a river which rifes in the N. part of Etruria, 

 crofles the department of the Amone, in Italy, and runs 

 into the S. branch of tlie Po, between Ferrara and the 

 Adriatic. 



SENOGU, a town of New Navarre ; 270 miles S.S.E. 

 of Cafa Grande. 



SENOMALY, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Ra- 

 koaitz ; 5 miles W.S.W. of Rakoritz. 



SENONCA, a town of Naples, m Lavora; 43 miles 

 W. of Ctima. 



SENONCHES, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Eure and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 diftritl of Dreux ; 9 miles W. of Chateauneuf. The place 

 contains 1856, and the canton 7541 inhabitants, on a terri- 

 tory of 205 kihometres, in 12 communes. 



SENONE, a river of France, which runs into the 

 Meurte, 5 miles S.E. of Nancy. 



SENONES, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Vofges, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 

 St. Die ; 9 miles S.W. of Salem. The place contains 

 1589, and the canton 10,997 inhabitants, on a territory of 

 215 kiliometres, in 19 communes. 



Senones, in indent Geography, a people of Gallia Cel- 

 tica, who occupied nearly the whole extent of the diocefeof 

 Sens and that of Auxerre, according to the ancient divifions 

 of France. According to Caefar, they were confined to 

 Belgica. This author fays of them : " eft civitas in primis 

 firma, et magna apud Gallos auftoritatis." — Alfo, a peo- 

 ple of Italy, in Gallia Cifpadana, upon the borders of the 

 Adriatic fea. Their arrival in Italy may be fixed in the year 

 before the vulgar era 397. Having jomed a leader named 

 Aruus, who wifhed to avenge himfelf of one of the Leuce- 

 mons in Etruria, they pafled tlie Alps in a numerous body, 

 and traverfed the plains watered by the Po, where other 

 Gauls were already eltablifhed, and arrived on the other fide 

 of the river, in Umbria, (till occupied by its ancient inha- 

 bitants. They ellablirtied themfelves from the Utis as far 

 as the CEfis, having the Adriatic fea to the N.E. and the 

 Apennines to the S.W. After having fpent about fix years 

 in forming their eftablifhments, Aruns condudled them to 

 Clufium, to befiege that place, where his wife and her ra- 

 viftier were. The Romans, whofe mediation was refufed, 

 took part with the inhabitants of Clufium, and joined the 

 Sroops of that city. The Senones were indignant, and de- 



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termiaed to do themfelvej juftice. Accordingly they marched 

 towards Rome, and penetrated into the city, in defiance 

 of the army that was oppofed to them. The Capitol made 

 a vigorous refiftance j till at length Camillus arrived, de- 

 feated the Senones, and refcued Rome. About 100 years 

 after this expedition they engaged in a war, and were over- 

 powered in the year of Rome 463, by M. Curius Gentalus 

 and P. Cornelius Rufinus. They were afterwards driven 

 from the whole country which they occupied, from the CEfis 

 to the Rubicon. A colony was fent into their country, 

 which affumed the name of " Sena Gallia." Seven years 

 afterwards they were almoft entirely exterminated by Dola- 

 bella. ' 



SENOPLE. See Sinople. 



SENORA, in Geography. See Sonora. 



SENORIiE, in Botany, a name by which fome authors 

 have called the banana-tree, or mufafruau breviore. 



SENOSAD, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in the 

 circle of C'zaflau ; 20 miles S.S.W. of Czaflau. 



SENOSECZ, or Senosetch, a town of Carniola ; 8 

 miles S.W. of Cirknitz. 



SENRA, SENRa:A, or Serra, in Botany, a genus of 

 Cavanilles, upon which diff'erent authors have beftowed the 

 above appellations. None of thefe, however, feem fatif- 

 faftory, for it has been fuggefted, that Serrea would be a 

 preferable name to any of the foregoing. We are ignorant 

 of its derivation — Cavan. Difl". 2. 83. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 

 69J. Juir. 274. — Clafs and order, Monaddphia Decandria. 

 Nat. Ord. Mahacea, Jufl". 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth double, permanent ; outer of 

 three, heart-fhaped, roundifli leaves ; inner very fmall, of 

 one leaf, cloven half way down into five fegments. Cor. 

 of five petals, malvaceous, tubular. Stam. Filaments com- 

 monly ten, united, placed on the upper fuperficies of the 

 tube ; anthers kidney-fhaped. P'tfl. Germen ovate, con- 

 cealed in the tube, furrounded by four membranes, or ratJier 

 by a fingle four-toothed membrane ; ftyle fimple, five-cleft. 

 Stigma globofe. Perlc. Fruit ovate, downy. Seeds ten, 

 oblong, kidney-ftiaped. 



Eft". Ch. Calyx double ; outer of three leaves ; inner 

 five-toothed. Petals five. Style five-cleft. " Capfule 

 five-ceUed ?" 



I. S. incana. Cavan. Diff. 2. t. 35. f. 3. IVilld. — Na. 

 tive of Arabia, oppofite the ifland Socotora. The whole 

 plant is white with down, whence its fpecific name. Stem 

 fcarcely three inches high, ftiffifti, folitary. Leaves alter- 

 nate, ftalked, heart-fhaped, ovate, truncated, terminating 

 with three notches. Flowers axillary, folitary, nearly fel- 

 file, probably yellowifli. 



Defcribed by Cavanilles from a dried fpecimen, which 

 was communicated to him by fir Jofeph Banks. It appears 

 to be allied both to Malva and Gojfypitim. 



SENS, in Geography, a town ot France, and principal 

 place of a diftrift, in the department of the Yonne, fituate 

 on the Yonne. Before the revolution it was the fee of aa 

 archbifliop, and contained i6 parifli churches, and I4abbies 

 and convents. In the reign of Edward III. and Henry V. 

 Sens was taken by the Engltfh ; 24 pofts N.N.W. of Dijon. 

 The place contains 10,600, and the canton 21,847 '"ha- 

 bitants, on a territory of 257^ kilioraL-tres, in 23 com- 

 munes. N. lat. 4^° 12'. E. long. 3^21'. — Alfo, a town 

 of France, in the department of the Ille and Vilaine ; 14 

 miles N.N. E. of Rennes. — Alfo, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Saone and Loire; 7 miles N.N.E. of 

 Louhans. 



SENSABARY, a town of Bengal; 20 miles N. of 

 Nulftii. 



I i SENSAON. 



