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Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, tubular, 

 with five angles, each angle terminating in an oval tooth, 

 permanent. Cor. of one petal, funnel-fhaped ; tube as long 

 again as the calyx ; throat globular ; limb plaited, in five 

 deep, llraight, oval fegments, revolute at their margin. 

 Stam. Filaments five, inferted towards the middle of the tube, 

 curved and downy at their bafe, as long as the lube ; an- 

 thers oval, of two cells. P'ljl. Germen fuperior, fmall, ob- 

 long ; ftyle terminal, thread-fhaped, the length of the 

 ftamens ; ftigma of two uneqi: i! lobes. Peric. Capfule 

 cylmdrical, (lightly curved, as i 'ig again as the calyx, of 

 one cell, and two cloven valves. Seeds numerous, imbricated, 

 oblong, comprefled, each encompafled with a membranous 

 border. 



Eff. Ch. Corolla funnel-fliapcd. Calyx tubular, with 

 five angles, and five teeth. Stamens fimple. Stigma of 

 two unequal lobes. Capfule ot one cell and two cloven 

 valves. Seeds numerous, bordered, 



1. S.Jipulata. « Fl. Peeuv. .. 2. 9. t. 115. f. B." — 

 " Leaves lanceolate, or heart-fhapcd. Clutters panicled." 

 — Native of cool fituations, on he mountains of Peru, 

 flowering in June and .July. A fft- \Jhrub, five or fix feet 

 high, having the afpeiJt of a Cejuum. The branches are 

 ttraight, leafy, alternate. Leaves alternate, ftalked, moftly 

 lanceolate, heart-fhaped at the bafe ; others, efpecially the 

 upper ones, narrower, oval, oblong, entire, pointed, from 

 three to five inches long, and one or two broad, fmooth 

 above, white and downy beneath. Stipulas at the bafe of 

 the footltalks, equal to them in length, oppofite, large, oval, 

 obtufe, feffile, a little heart (haped at the bottom, deflexed 

 at the fides, deciduous. Panicles terminal, compoled of 

 ftraight, downy clutters, with corymbole Jialhs, of yellow 

 downy Jlowers, accompanied by fmall, awl-lhaped, deciduous 

 braSeas. 



2. S. dependent. " Fl. Peruv. v. 2. 9. t. 1 16." — " Leaves 

 oblong, heart-fhaped. Clutters very long, pendulous." — 

 Native of the banks of rivers in Peru, flowering in Novem- 

 ber, December, and January. A tree, twenty-five or thirty 

 feet high, agreeing in many refpefts with the foregoing, but 

 the leaves are very powdery at the back, and the clujlers 

 very long, fimple, and pendulous, flightly zigzag. The 



Jlowers are ufually placed three together, in alternate feflile 

 tufts. Calyx powdery. Corolla with a black tube, and 

 yellowifli limb, externally downy. Capfules black. 



Both fpecies are etteemed emollient anodyne. Peiret. 



SESSEL in Geography, a town of Bengal ; 5 miles N.W. 

 of Doefa. N. lat, 23° 4'. E. long. 84° 58'. 



SESSENREUTH, a town of Germany, in the princi- 

 pality of Culmbach ; 10 miles N. of Bayreuth. 



SESSERRY, a town of Hindoottan, in Oude ; 13 miles 

 S. of Lucknow. 



SESSILE, in Botany, a term applied to any part of the 

 herbage or flowers of a plant, that is not elevated on any kind 

 of ftalk ; from the Latin feffilis, fitting clofe. Many plants 

 bezr Jlores feJTdes, feflile flowers, on the branches ; very few 

 at the root, like Crocus, Colchkum, and Aphyteia. It is not 

 unufual for the fruftification, though feflile at the flowering 

 period, to become ftalked as the fruit advances toward ma- 

 turity. The germen is fo ufually feflile, as teldom to require 

 to be fo defcribed, it being fuflicient to notice a ftalked 

 germen, whenever fuch occurs, as aff"ording moftly an im- 

 portant generic charafler. For folia fejdia, feflile leaves, 

 fee Leaf. 



Sessile Roots, fuch tuberous roots as adhere to the bafe 

 of the ftalk. See Root. 



SESSION, Sbssio, denotes each fitting, or affembly, of 

 a council. 



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In quoting councils, we fay, in fuch a feflion, fuch a ca- 

 non, &c. 



Session of Parliament, is a feafon, or fpace, from its meet- 

 ing to its prorogation, or difl'olution. See Parliament. 



Session, in Law, denotes a fitting of juftices in court, 

 upon their commiflion. As the feflion of oyer and terminer, 

 of gaol-delivery, &c. See Assises, Justices of AJJife, Jus- 

 tices of Gaol-delivery, Justices of Oyer, &c. 



Sessions of Wales, Great. See Courts of Wales. 



Quarter fejfions, C'i[\e.A general fejjions, or open feffions, iland 

 oppofite \.o efpecial, otherwife called /"rf/y^^onj, which are 

 procured upon fome fpecial occafion, for the more fpeedy 

 difpatch of juftice. See QuARTER-^^onj-. 



Statute-feffions, are thofe kept by a high-conftable of a 

 hundred, for the placing of fcrvaiits, &c. See Statute. 



Sessions for Weights and Meafures. In London, four 

 juttices from among the mayor, recorder, and aldermen, (of 

 whom the mayor or recorder is to be one), may hold a 

 feflions to enquire into offences of felling by falfe weights 

 and meafures, contrary to the ttatutes ; and to receive indift- 

 ments, punifh offenders, &c. Char. K. Cha. I. 



Session, The Court of, otherwife called the college of juf- 

 tices, is the fupreme court in Scotland for all civil caufes. 

 It confifts of one conftant prefident, who has an annual falary 

 of 1300/. and fourteen other judges, at "jool. per annum each, 

 who are lords by their office, which they hold by patent 

 quamdiu fe bene gefferint. The lord high chancellor prefides 

 here when prefent. The king names feveral other extra- 

 ordinary lords, who fit, but are not obliged to give at- 

 tendance, becaufe they have no falaries ; but they may vote 

 among the reft. 



The court fits from the firft of November, old ttyle, to 

 the laft of February, and from the firft ot June to the laft of 

 July, all inclufive ; which holds of all the inferior courts or 

 judicatories in Scotland. In time of feffion, or term, they 

 fit from nine o'clock to twelve in the forenoon, every day 

 in the week but Sunday and Monday ; fometimes they fit 

 is the afternoon, to end concluded caufes, or to hear fuch 

 long debates as the forenoon was too fliort to hear, which 

 gives a great difpatch to caufes that come before them. 

 The lords, both ordinary and extraordinary, when in the 

 inner houfe, fit on a femicircular bench in their robes ; where 

 the advocates debate their clients' caufes before them. There 

 are fix principal clerks belonging to this court. Nine of 

 the lords make a quorum in the inner houfe, otherwife they 

 cannot vote in any cale, except fuch as are referred to one or 

 more of the whole lords ; and one of the ordinary lords (the 

 prefident being always excepted) is weekly appointed judge 

 in the outer houfe, for difcuffing of ordinary aftions, and 

 has fix under clerks to attend him. He meddles with no 

 extraordinary cafes, except where it is remitted to him by all 

 the lords, to be difcuffed in the outer houfe for difpatch. 



That the lords may have time to read informations, pe- 

 titions, &c. and the fuitors be eafed of the trouble of going 

 with them to their houfes, every lord has a box ttanding 

 upon a table in the waiting room in the inner houfe, from two 

 to four o'clock in the afternoon, every day ; wherein all who 

 have papers to offer, may put them by a flit in the cover. 

 Each of the principal clerks have alfo a box, and parties 

 mutt put in their bills, anfwers, or informations of caufes to 

 be reported, into the clerk of the procefs's box. 



The rolls of the court bring in all caufes in their due 

 order, Caufes of the greateft confequence are at firlt ad- 

 vifed by the whole lords in the inner houfe. Other caufe; 

 are called of courfe before an ordinary in the outer houfe, 

 who decides the controverfy, if clear, without farther trouble 

 or expence j and, in cafe of difficulty, takes fome little time 



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