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Hog's-fnout, was bifliop of Albano at the time of his elec- 

 tion to the papal fee in 1009, after the death of John XVIII. 

 Little is recorded of the traiifaftions of this pontiff : he fent 

 a legate into France to confecrate a monailery in the diocefe 

 of Tours, which the archbifhop of that fee regarded as an 

 encroachment upon his junfdidion : he alfo determined a 

 difpnte between the archbilhop of Hamburgh and the 

 bilhop of Verden. He was greatly refpedled for the mild- 

 nefs of his difpofition, and his liberality to the poor. He 

 died in 1012. 



Sergius I., patriarch of Conftantinople, is well known in 

 eccleliallical hiltory for the fuoport which he gave to the doc- 

 trine of the Monothehtes. He was a Syrian by birth, and 

 born of parents who adhered to the herefy, as it was deno- 

 minated, of the Monophyfifs. He was railed to the pa- 

 triarchal dignity in the year 610. The emperor Heraclius, 

 being defirous of re-uniting the prrfecuted Nellorians to the 

 Greek church, and having held conferences with perfons of 

 influence in that (eft, was allured by them, that there 

 would be no difBculty in terminating the controverly, pro- 

 vided the Greeks would afTent to the following propofition, 

 " that in Jefus Chritt there was, after the union of the two 

 natures, but one will, and one operation." Sergius thought 

 this proportion might be adopted without the fmalleft injury 

 to the truth; snd without derogating from the authority of the 

 council of Clialcedon, which had condemned the doftrine 

 of a fingle nature : in confequence of this decifion, the 

 emperor ifiued an edift in the year 630 in favour of the 

 doftrine of thejlngle-zvi/l. This hope of concord was foon 

 frultrated, by the violent oppofition of Sophronius, a monk, 

 and patriarch of the fee of Jerufalem, who alf > endeavoured 

 to gain pope Honorius to his party, but Sergius was before- 

 hand with him, and had pcrfuaded his holinefs to approve 

 the doftnne in quellion. In order to quiet the c»mmotions 

 in the church, Heraclius, in 6^9 ilfued an cdift compofed 

 by Sergius, which was entitled " Edhefis," or an expofition 

 of the faith in which all controverfies on the quellion 

 " whether in Chrift there were one or two operations," 

 were prohibited, though the edift plainly inculcated the 

 doftrine of one will. Sergius died in the fame year, and 

 his memory was afterwards anathematized in feveral 

 councils. 



SERGODE, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Bednore ; 8 miles S.W. of Sacrapatam. 



SERGOM, a town of Hindooftan, in Baglana ; 25 

 miles N. of Bafi'een. 



SERGOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Bednore; 25 

 miles W. of Sacrapatam. 



SERJAN. See Sirgian and Kermax. 

 SERIANA, in Botany, could hardly be fuppofed to 

 have been defigned to commemorate a perfon of the name of 

 Sergeant ; yet fuch was the intention of Phimier. " The 

 Rev. father Philip Sergeant, a native of Calais, of the order 

 of Minims, in Provence, an able botanilt, but more able 

 phyiician, praftifed medicine at Rome for 25 years, with fo 

 much fuccefs, as to gain the high elleem of all ranks of 

 people. His departure from that city caufed the decpell 

 regret, but he was welcomed at Paris with no lefs exulta- 

 tion." Plumier, from whom we take this account, named 

 the genus Serjania ; but Liiinsus, who united it to Paul- 

 lima, by accident, as it feems, altered the word, as he 

 adopted it for a fpecific name, to Senana. So it now re- 

 mains, the genus having been reflored by recent authors : 

 nor do the botanical claims of the reverend father appear 

 fufficiently great, to make us folicitous about the precife 

 mode of Ipelling the name of his plant. — Plum. Gen. 34. 

 t. 35. " Schumacher in Aft. Hill. Nat. Hafn. v. 3. p. 2." 

 Willd. Sp. PI. V. 2. 464. (PauUinia; Lamarck lUullr. 



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t. 318. f. I, 2, 3.) — Clafs and order, OSandria Trigynia, 

 Nat. Ord. Trihilata, Lir.n. Sapindi, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of live orate, concaye, 

 fpreading, permanent, unequal leaves. Cor. Petals four, 

 obovate-oblong, twice the length of the calyx, furnidied 

 with claws ; two of them more dillant than the reft. Nec- 

 taries two ; one of four oblong fcales, inferted into the claws 

 of the petals ; the utiicr of four glands at the bale of the 

 petals. Stam. Filaments eight, fimple, (hortifh ; anthers 

 fmall, ovate, two-lobed. Pift. Germen fupenor, (lalked, 

 obovatc, with three furrows ; tlylcs three, combined at the 

 bafe, recurved ; iligmas fimple, obtufe. Perlc. Capfules 

 three, globofe, combined l.ingitudinally, eatli of one cell, 

 not burlling, dilated at the bafe into a hilf-ovate mem- 

 branous wing. S((ds folitary, ovate. 



Elf. Ch. Calyx of five unequal leaves. Petals four, 

 Neftaries of four fcales and four glands. Capfules three, 

 globofe, combined, not burlling, each with a dilated wing 

 at the bafe. Seeds folitary. 



Obf. The fruit fufficiently diftinguilhes this geiius from 

 Paullisia, fee that article, however Itmibr the flowers, 

 and habits of the plants. 



1. Si.fiitujta. WiUd. n. I. " Schumacher, as above, 

 t. 12. f. I." (S. fcandens, triphylla et racemofa ; Plum. 

 Gen. 34. Ic. t. 113. t. 2. PauUinia Seriana ; Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 524. Jacq. Obf. fafc. 3. 11. t. 61. f. 2.) — Wings of 

 the capfules dilated below their infertion. Leaves ternate ; 

 leaflets ovato- lanceolate, fiiniated and toothed. — Native of 

 South America. Neither this, nor any oilier of the genua, 

 is known in our garden>. The Jlem is angular, furrowed 

 and downy, climbing by means of tendrils. Lea-on alter- 

 nate, llalkcd ; leaflets about two inches long, veiny, tai)er- 

 ing at the bafe ; roughifh to the touch, though fomewhat 

 (hining, above ; paler beneath. Floweri fmall, in coin- 

 pound downy clullers. Wing of each cipfule iicar an inch 

 long. 



2. S. divaricala. Willd. n. 2. " Schumach. t. 12. f. 2." 

 (PauUinia divaricata ; Swartz Ind. Occ. v. 2. 696.) — 

 Leaves twice ternate ; leaflets ovate, acute, entire, lialked, 

 Ihining. Common footftalks without wings. — Native of 

 the woods of Jamaica. Sum climbing to a great height, 

 zigzag, with a few dillant flight prickles, angular, fmooth. 

 Fooljlalks two inches long, furrowed, fmooth. Leajlels 

 ftalked, the llalk of the middle one winged. Tendrils axil- 

 lary, divided at the extremity. Panicles from the fame 

 point, on long llalks, their branches racemofe, alternate, 

 fpreading. Flowers white. 



3. S. raracafana. Willd. n. 3. (PauUinia caracafana ; 

 Jacq. Hort. Schonbr. v. i. 52. t. 99.) — Wings of the cap- 

 fules not dilated below their infertion. Leaves twice ter- 

 nate, leaflets oblong, acute at each end, dillantly toothed. 

 Common ftalks without wings. — Native of the Caraccas, 

 from whence we prefume it was fent by Dr. Maerter to the 

 ftoves at Vienna, where it flowers in the fummer. The nu- 

 mcrousjlems climb by tendrils to a great height. Leaves 

 fmooth ; leaflets elliptic-oblong, two or three inclics in 

 length. Flowers white, in compound cylindrical rliijlers, 

 each duller on a long llalk, accompanied by two llrong rc- 

 volute tendrils at thctop of the llalk. 



4. S. racemofa. Willd. n. 4. «< Schumach. t. 1 2. f. 3." 

 — " Wings of the capfules dilated below their bale, fome- 

 what finuated in front. Leaves twice ternate ; leaflets ovate, 

 deeply ferrated. — Native of Vera Cruz. Leaves acute. 

 Fooljlalks fcarcely bordered. Panicle (or compound cliijler) 

 with two tendrils." Schumacher. 



5. S./peaabi/is. Willd. n.5. " Schumach. t. 12. f. 4." 

 —Wings of the capfules dilated below their bafe. Leaves 

 twice ternate; leaflets obovatc; the terminal one abrupt. 



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