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delcription of the feraglio, fee Gieave's Works, vol. ii. 

 p. 591, &c. 



SERAI, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in 

 Natolia ; 24 miles E. of Caftamena. — Alfo, a town of the 

 dcfcrt of Syria ; 30 miles E. of Aleppo. — Alfo, a town of 

 Hindooftaii, iu the circar of Naderbar ; 20 miles S.S.W. 

 of Naderbar. 



SERAING, a town of France, in the department of 

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

 Liege. The place contains 2503, and the canton 6400 in- 

 habitants, on a territory of 925 kiliometres, in 7 com- 

 munes. 



SERA JO, or BosNA See A JO, a town of European Tur- 

 key, in Bofnia, fitualed on the river Bofna, and the refidence 

 of a fanjiac. It is large, rich, and commercial, and the fee 

 of a Catholic bidiop, appointed by the king of Hungary ; 

 118 miles W. of Belgrade. N. lat. 44° 26''. E. long. 18^. 



SERAKINO, a fmall Greek ifland, which, together 

 with Dromi, afford a place of fhelter to navigators. 



SERAMICA, a river of Surinam, which runs into the 

 Atlantic, N. lat. 5° 54'. W. long. 55° 38'. 



SERAMPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, near the river 

 Hoogly ; 12 miles N. of Calcutta. — Alio, a town of Hin- 

 doodan, m the country of Baliar ; 75 miles S.S.E. of Bahar. 

 — Alfo, a town of Bengal ; 40 miles S. of Dacca. N. lat. 

 23° 4'. E. long. 90° 40'. — Alfo, a town of Bengal ; 20 

 miles S.S.E. of Curruckdeah. N. lat. 24° 6'. E. long. 

 86^ 28'. — Alfo, a town of Bengal; 37 miles N.W. of 

 Burdwan. 



SE RANG AN, a duller of three fmall iflands in the 

 Eall Lidian fea ; one of them about ij miles long and 

 3 broad, and the other two fmallcr. N. lat. 5" 25'. E. 

 long. 12;" 20'. 



SERANGODES, a word ufed originally as an epithet 

 for the pumice-ilone, and exprefFing cavernous, fpungy, or 

 full of holes. It has been hence applied to finuous ulcers, 

 and to all forts of things that are cavernous, or of a fpungy 

 texture. 



SERAPGUNGE, in Geography, a town of Bengal; 

 28 miles N. of Mauldah. 



SERAPH, or Seraphim, in the Hierarchy of ./Ingeh, 

 a fpirit fuppofed to be of the firit or highell rank. 



The feraphs, or rather ferapbini, make that clafs of an- 

 gels, fuppofed to be the moil inflamed with divine love, by 

 their nearer and more immediate attendance on the throne, 

 and to communicate their heat to the interior and remoter 

 orders : hence their name, winch is formed from the He- 

 brew root ri~IJi?, lo burn, inflame. 



Sekai'H is alfo laid to be the name of a Turkifli gold 

 coin, worth about ^s. ilcrling. 



Seraph's Head, in Heraldry, is ufed to denote a child's 

 head, with three pair of wings, v/z. two in chief, two in 

 felle, and two in bafe. 



SERAPHIC, lomething belonging to the ferapliim. 



Mr. Boyle has a treatife of (crapltic love, i. e. of divine 

 love, or the love of God. 



In the fchools, St. Bonaventure is called the Serapliic 

 Doctor, from his abundant zeal and fervour. 



St. Francis, founder of the Cordeliers and Francifcans, 

 is called the Seraphic Father, ni memory of a vifion he faw 

 on mount Alverna. 



SERAPHm. See Seiiapii. 



Seuapiiim, Order of, in Heraldry, otherwifc fnrnamed of 

 Jefus, was indituted in Sweden, in 1334, by Magnus II. 

 king of Sweden, iu memory of tiie fiege of the metropolitan 

 city of Upfal ; and not, as fome authors fay, by Eric the 

 Great, called Smeek ; nor by Gullavus I., as others ima- 



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gine. Upon the change of religion which happened in 

 Sweden, under Charles IX., this order was abolilhed ; but 

 it was revived, February the 1 1 th, in the year 1 748, by- 

 Frederic I., king of Sweden. The habit of the order is a 

 white fattin jacket, trimmed with black lace, and lined 

 with black ; with white breeches, flioes, and ilockings, 

 trimmed with black, and black ribbons ; a black fattin (hort 

 cloak, lined with white, the cape being white, trimmed with 

 black lace ; a hat of black fattin, bound with white, having 

 on the left fide four white oftrich feathers, and in the middle 

 of them one black feather. Upon the left bread of the 

 cloak is a ftar of eight points, emliroidered in filver ; and 

 upon the jacket, on the fame fide, is the like dar, but fome- 

 what lefs in fize. The collar of the order is compofed of 

 eleven golden heads of feraphs, with wings expanded, and 

 eleven blue patriarchal erodes, enamelled on gold, all joined 

 with chains of the lad. To the collar is fufpended the erifgn 

 of the order, viz. a dar of eight points, enamelled white, 

 the centre blue, with the arms of Sweden, and the initial 

 letters, I.H.S. ; over the H. a crofs ; the arms inclofed 

 with four feraphs' heads, as in the collar ; in the arms, 

 under the bottom crown, the padion-nails. N.B. The fe- 

 raphs' heads are between the double points of the dar; and 

 over the upward points is the royal crown of Sweden, by 

 which it is pendant to the collar. The enfign alfo is pendant 

 to a broad flcy-blue watered ribbon, worn fcarf-wife, and 

 brought over the right fhoulder, and under the left arm. 

 . SERAPIy\S, in Botany, one of the poetic names, de- 

 rived from Serapis, the Egyptian idol. The Sernpias of 

 Pliny was evidently, from his defcription, a plant of the 

 Orchis tribe, witii globular roots, and fuppofed to have aji 

 aphrodiliacal quality. Hence Linnaeus retains the above 

 name for a genus of the fame natural order, which, accord- 

 ing to his charadlers and idea^, was more ample than bo- 

 tanids at prefent make it, including many fpecies of our 

 Epipactis. (See that article.) — Linn. Gen. 462. Schreb. 

 603. Willd. Sp. PI. V. 4. 70. Mart. Mill. Dift. v. 4. 

 Swartz Aft. Holm, for 1800. 223. t. ^. f. H. Schrad. 

 New .Tourn. v. I. 47. t. I. f. H. Juif. 6j. Brown in 

 Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 5. 194. Sm. Prodr. Fl. Grxc. Sibth. 

 V. 2. 218. — Clafs and order, Gynandria Monandria. Nat. 

 Ord. Orchidea. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth fupcrior, of three ovate, 

 pointed, concave, converging, equal leaves. Cor. Petals 

 two, lanceolate, acute, Imaller than the calyx, and con- 

 cealed within it. Nectary a lip, without a fpur; concave 

 at the bafe ; its terminal lobe largcd, undivided, pointed, 

 dependent. Stam. Filament none ; anther obh)ng, crcd, 

 attached in a parallel manner to the fore part of the dyle, 

 of two cilh, opening m front ; the malfes of pollen club- 

 Ihaped, attaciiing themfelves, each by its taper bafe, to 2 

 glind bv the iligma, in one and the fame pouch ; Broavn. 

 Pijl. Germen inferior, obovate, furrowed ; dyle elongated, 

 ereft, with a taper point extended above tlie anther ; Uigma 

 in front, below the anther, concave. Peric. Capfule obo- 

 vate, of one cell, with three ribs, burding longitudinally 

 between tlie ribs. Seeds very numerous, minute, roundilh, 

 each witli a chaffy tunic. 



Eff. Cii. Calyx converging. Neftary a lip without a 

 fpur ; concave at the bafe ; its terminal lobe very large, de- 

 pendent, undivided. Anther parallel to the dyle, fur- 

 mounted by a point. 



I. S. Lingua. Tongue-lipped Serapias. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 1344. Willd. n. I. Ait. n. i. Sm. Fl. Grxc. Sibth. 

 t. 931, unpublifbcd. (Orchis n. 1267; Hall. Hill. v. 2. 

 135. O. Uiacrophylla ; Colun.n. Ecplir. 321. t. 322. O. 

 montana italica, lingua oblonga, altera ; alio lingua trifida ; 



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