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S 1 D 



tary, fmgle-flowered, longer than the leaves. Lobes of the 

 capfule obtufe. — Native of the Cape of Good Hope. The 

 film is fhrubby, much branched, widely fpreadinjj. Leaves 

 one and a half or two inches wide. Floiuers fmall, white, 

 inferior in beauty to thofe of the Malva fragrans or capenfis, 

 to which this plant is ilriftly aUicd in habit and every cha- 

 rafter, except the want of an outer calyx. 



S. ternata. Ternate-lcaved Cape Sida. Linn. Suppl. 

 307. Willd. n. 93. Thunb. Prodr. 118. — " Leaves ter- 

 nate ; leaflets lanceolate, didantly ferrated." — Gathered by 

 Thunberg at the Cape. We have fcen no fpecimen ; but 

 by the above fcanty information, this fhould feem to differ 

 from the lait much as the two Cape Mallows, juft mentioned, 

 differ from each other. 



S. pterofperma. Winej-feeded Jagged Sida. I/Herit. 

 Stirp. 115. t. 57. WiUd. n. 94. (S. muhifida ; Cavan. 

 Diir. 25. t. 4. f. 2.) — Leaves with three deep, obtufe, 

 finuated lobes. Panicle much branched. Cells of the cap- 

 fule numerous, each crowned with a double membranous 

 wing — Gathered by Dombey, in fandy ground at Lima. 

 It was raifed at Paris, but required great heat. The root 

 is annual. Stem prollrate, much branched, a foot long, 

 round, befprinkled with (tarry hairs. Leaves on long ftalks, 

 deeply divided, pinnatifid or waved, with blunt rounded 

 lobes and fegments. Flowers fmall, white, in terminal, 

 panicled, rather hairy, clujlers, each flower on a long ftalk, 

 and turned downwards. Capfule very peculiar, on account 

 of the numerous, double, membranous, rounded wings, 

 which form an orbicular crell on its fummit. 



S. jatrophoides. Phyfick-nut-leaved Sida. L'Herit. 

 Stirp. 117. t. 56. Willd. n. 96. Ait. n. gj. (S. pal- 

 mata ; Cavan. Did". 274. t. 131. f. 3. Jacq. Ic. Rar. 

 t. 547.) — Leaves palmate, with deep, acute, pinnatifid 

 lobes. Panicle many-flowered, hairy. Cells of the cap- 

 fule without awns. — Native of Lima and Peru. Sent to 

 Kew in 1787 by M. Thouin. An annual ftove-plant, 

 flowering in Augufl, and diftinguiflied by the deep lobes of 

 its leaves, feven or more, varioufly and deeply finuated, pin- 

 natifid and cut, refembling thofe of the Nap^a, to which 

 genus we fufpedt this fpecies may naturally belong ; for 

 L'Heritier fpeaks of tha feeds as feparating with difficulty 

 from their cells. We are puzzled by his account of thefe 

 cells being awned in the wild plant, but not in the cultivated 

 one. But this difficulty may be folvcd by his having, like 

 Cavanilles, originally confounded the prefcnt fpecies with 

 what he afterwards called j'. riclnoidts, in which the valves 

 of the cells are ilrongly awned. We have a fpecimen of 

 jatrophoides from L'Heritier himfclf marked ricinoides. 

 Yet the two are very diflindl in their foliage as well :3 

 fruit. 



Sida, in Gardening, contains plants of the exotic, tender, 

 herbaceous, perennial kind, of which the fpecies chiefly cul- 

 tivated are; the rhomb-leaved fida (S. rhombifolia) ; the 

 great bindweed-leaved fida (S. periplocifolia) ; the triangu- 

 lar-ttalked fida (S. triquetra) ; the broad-leaved fida (S. 

 abutilon) ; the white-flowcrcd fida (S. alba) j and the 

 heart -leaved fida (S. cordifolia). 



Method of Culture. — Thefe plant.<> may be increafcd by 

 feeds, which fhould be fown upon a moderate hot-bed in the 

 early fpring, or in pots dcpolited in them. In the firfl cafe, 

 when tlie plants have attained fome growth, they fhould be 

 removed to another hot-bed, and be fet out four inches ap;irt 

 each way, or into feparate pots, replunging tlicm in tlie hot- 

 bed, being fhaded till they have taken new root ; a large 

 proportion of free air being admitted in fine weather, and 

 alfo frequent waterings : they (hould afterwards be gra- 

 dually hardened to bear the open air in the fummer feafon. 



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Some of them may alfo be raifed from offsets and cuttings, 

 planted in pots in the fummer feafon. 



It may be noticed that the fourth fort is fufficiently hardy 

 to bear the open air : the feeds fhould be fown where the 

 plants are to remain, as they do not bear trar.fplanting well. 

 It is an annual plant. 



As fome of the fpecies do not flower till the fecond year, 

 of courfe they fhould be pl.i.ccd in the ftove in the autumn, 

 and be managed during the winter as other terider exotic 

 plants of the fame nature. 



Moft of thefe afford ornament among other potted plants 

 in the ftove, and the fourth fort in the borders and other 

 parts of pleafure-grounds. 



Sida, in /Indent Geography, a town of Afia, in Pam- 

 phylia, upon the fea-coaft, near the mouth of the river Eu- 

 rymedon. Ptolemy. — Alfo, a town of Greece, in the Pe- 

 loponnefus. which took its name from one of the daughters 

 of Dan'aus, according to Paufanias. 



SIDACA, a town of Afia Minor, in Lycia. Steph. 

 Byz. 



SIDALA, a town of Afia, in Armenia Major. Ptol. 



SIDAMER, in Geography, a kingdom of the ifland of 

 Java, on the S. coafl, bounded on the W. by Bantam, on 

 the N. by Jacatra, on the E. by Kandang Wefee, and on the 

 S; by the fea. 



SiDASIVA, in Mythology, a name of the Hindoo god 

 Siva, the prefixed epithet being one of reverence. It is not 

 often ufed, though it frequently occurs in the Siva-purana. 



SIDATSCHOW, or Zydaczow, in Geography, 3l town 

 of Auflrian Poland, in Galicia ; 35 miles S. of Lemberg. 

 N. lat. 49° 16'. E. long. 24° 19'. 



SIDBY, a town of Sweden, in the province of Wafa ; 

 15 miles S. of Chriftinelladt. 



SIDDAPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore ; 10 

 miles S.W. of Periapatam. 



SIDDINGHAUSEN, a town of Weilphalia, in the 

 bifhopric of Paderborn ; 3 miles S.S.W. of Buren. 



SIDDO, a harbour on the W. coafl of Sumatra. N. 

 lat. 5° 8'. E. long. 95° 27'. 



SIDDOW, in Agriculture, a term provincially applied to 

 peas that boil foft. It is employed in fome diltridts, as Glou- 

 cellerlhire, to fignify or denote fuch peas as boil freely, or 

 in a ready manner, into a foft mafs. Some forts of lands 

 only have the peculiar property or quality of railing or pro- 

 ducing this kind, or thofe that poflefs fuch a capability. Upon 

 them, therefore, thofe of the Chariton fort arc molUy fown or 

 planted in this intention. Soils of tlic calcareous dcfcription 

 or quality are commonly capable of affording this boiling fort ; 

 but thofe that are of the clayey kind do not poflefs the fame 

 capability. Tlii-. quality in poalc is cxpreflcd by the terms 

 boiling, making, and fome otliers, in diflerent other diflrifts. 

 See Pica. 



SIDE, in Ancient Geography, a place of Afia Minor, in 

 the Troade. Strabo. 



SiDR, Lotus, in Geometry. The fije of a Jigiire is a line 

 making part of tlie periphery of any fuperficial figure. See 

 FiriuuK. 



In triangles, the fides are alfo called legs. In a right- 

 angled triangle, the two fides, including tlic rigiit angle, 

 are called ratheti ; and tlie third, the hypothenufe. 



Si 1)1', of a polygonal number is the number ot the terms of 

 the rinthmetical progreffion that arc fummed up. See Po- 

 l,Yf;o\Al, Number, 



Si 1)1 of power is what we otlierwife call the root, or 

 radix. 



Smrs of hom-tuorh, croivn-tvorks, double tenailles, and 



the like out-works, are the ramparts and parapets which 



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