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Stable Rings for Stalls, the llrong iron rings which are 

 fixed to the mangers or (ides of the italls of ftables for the 

 purpofe of the iialter or head-ftall reins of the horfes run- 

 ning in. There are not unfrequently two to each Itall in 

 well fitted up (tables, but common (tables have feldoin more 

 than one. Thefe rings are mortly of the common kind, 

 made fo a? to work in a (hank, which fcrcws into the part 

 of the (tall to which the rings are to be iixed ; but a great 

 improvement has lately been made in them, by having them 

 formed in fomcwhat the manner of and as a Itrong ipring, 

 by which, in cafe ot the horfe becoming entangled in the 

 reins, accidents may be prevented by their giving way. At 

 all other times they arc as perfectly fafe as the common 

 ring. In thefe cafes, they have alfo a (crew-fhank, in order 

 to be fixed in their proper places, but are not moveable in 

 it, as in the common ring. 



STABLES's Strait, in Geography, a channel between 

 Sugar-loaf ifland and Banker's illand, in the Mergui Ar- 

 chipelago. 



STABLESTAND, in the Forefl-laiu, is when a per- 

 fon is found at his (land in the foreit, with a crois-bow or 

 long-bow, ready to fhoot at a deer, or elfe (landing clofe 

 by a tree with greyhounds ready to flip. 



This is one of the four evidences, or prefumptions, by 

 which a man is convifted of intending to (leal the king's 

 deer ; the other three being back-berond, bloody-hand, and 

 dog-draw. See Forest. 



STABLO, or Stavelo, in Geography, a town of 

 France, in the department of the Ourte, and chief place 

 of a canton, in the diltrict of Malmedy, fituated on the 

 river Rechte, and deriving its name from that of an ancient 

 abbey, founded in the year 657 by Sigebert, king of 

 Audrafia, for the accommodation of St. Remade, bilhop 

 of Maeftricht, who preferring folitude to the epifcopal 

 dignity, retired hither, and became the fir(t abbot. The 

 place contain^ 2604, and the canton 7903 inhabitants, on 

 a territory of 2925 kiliometres, in 10 communes. The 

 manufafture and trade, which are coniiderable, confift of 

 cloth and Ituffs, and the tanning of leather ; 20 miles S. of 

 Aix-la-Chapellc. 



STACCATO, Ital. is a term in Mufic, which implies 

 a didinct feparation of one note from another, in a plain 

 and articulate manner. The term is confined to inltru- 

 mental mufic, and chiefly to that of the violin kiiid, where 

 the flroke of the bow is to be given to every note, and none 

 of the paffages are to be flurred ; that is, no two or more 

 notes are to be played with the fame bow. 



STACHYS, ii: Botany, from T'-xyh a fp'i'i becaufe 

 the flowerr., though whorled, are more crowded into a 

 fpiked form than molt others of the fame natural order ; 

 which may, in fome meafure, anfwer Ray's objeAion to this 

 ancient name, as not peculiarly appofitc. — Linn. Gen. 293. 

 Schreb. 390. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 97. Mart. Mill. Uiiit. 

 V. 4. Sm. Fl. Brit. 632. Prodr. Fl. Grace. Sibth. v. i. 

 407. Ait. Hort. Kevv. v. 3. 397. Purlh v. 2. 407. 

 JuiT. 114. Tourn. t. 86. Lamarck Didt. v. 7. 364. 

 Illuftr. t. 509. — Clals and order, D'ulynam'm Gymnofpermia. 

 Nat. Ord. Verlkillatit, Linn. I^abiattc, Ju(i. 



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

 angular, permanent, cut about half way down into (wc 

 awl-fhaped, pointed, awned, rather unequal, tectli. Cnr. 

 of one petal, ringent ; tube very fliort ; throat oblong, 

 gibbous downwards at the bafe : upper lip ereft, nearly 

 ovate, vaulted, often cmarginate : lower larger, reflcxed at 

 the fides, three-cleft ; its middle fegment very large, cmar- 

 ginate, folded backward. Stnm. Filaments four, two of 

 them (liortcr than the fell, all awl-(haped, curved towards 

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each margin of the throat after flowering ; anthers fimpl". 

 Pyi. Germen fuperior, four-lobed ; fiyletluead-fliaped paral- 

 lel to the llamens, and as long ; lligma in two acute divi- 

 fions. Peric. none, except the fcarcely altered caiy«. Serds 

 four, ovate, angular. 



EIT. Ch. Calyx five-cleft, awned. Upper lip of the 

 corolla vaulted : lower reflexed at the fides ; its middle fep- 

 ment largelt, emarginate. Fading (tamcns refiexcd towardi 

 the fides. 



Stachys is chiefly an European genus, of herbaceous, or 

 fomewhat fiirubby, mollly perennial, plants. Loureiro in- 

 deed has a 5. ArtemtJ'xa, found in China and Cochinchina ; 

 but we cannot, from his account, be certain as to its genus. 

 Mr. Purlh enumerates four American fpecie.s, three of 

 which are new. The fourteenth edition of Linn. Sylt. 

 Veg. contains feventeen, Willdei.ow has twenty-fix. We 

 (hall particularize fome of the mod remarkable, efpecially 

 the five Britilh fpecies, and a new ene from Crete. 



&■ fylvatica. Hedge Woundwort.' Linn. Sp. PI. 8rr. 

 Willd. n. I. Fl. Brit. n. I. Engl. Bot. t. 416. Curt. 

 Loud. fafc. 3. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 26. f. 2. t. 34. (Ga- 

 leopfis vera ; Ger. Em. 704.) — Whorls of fix flowers. Stem 



(olid. Leaves heart-fhaped, (talked Native of hedges and 



(liady fituations, throughout Europe, frequent with us, 

 flowering in July and Augud. 'The root is fomewhat creep- 

 ing, perennial, not annual. Herb erett, two or three feet 

 high, of a dark green, covered with fine, rather glidening 

 hairs, and exhaling a pungent, difagreeable, very peculiar 

 fcent. Stem fohd. Leaves broad. Spike interrupted, leafy 

 at the bottom, brafteated above. Calyx hifpid. Corollec 

 of a deep dull blood-red, elegantly variegated in front with 

 purple and white. 



S. ambigua. Ambiguous Woundwort. Engl. Bot. 



t. 2089. Ait. n. 5 Whorls of fix flowers. Stem hollow. 



Leaves oblong, heart-fhaped at the bafe, (talked. — Found in 

 the Orkneys, very abundantly, in potatoe-fields and other 

 cultivated ground, as well as in the north of Scotland, and 

 near the Pentland hills, flowering in Augud and September. 

 It feems intermediate between S.fylvatka and palii/2ris, fome 

 fpecimens more refembling the former, others the latter. 

 The root is white and creeping. Stem hollow, its hairs more 

 or Jefs deflexed. Lip of the corolla lefs (trikingly varie- 

 gated. The dalked leaves didinguifli this fpecies from iS. 

 palujlr'is ; while their narrower oblong form, more filky fur- 

 face, and the want of any very llrong fetor, render it unlike 

 t\ii:Jylvatica. 



S. palii/lris. Marfli Woundwort. Linn. Sp. PI. 811, 

 Willd. n. 4. Fl. Brit. n. 2. Engl. Bot. t. 1675. Curt. 

 Lond.fafc. 3. t. 35. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 26. f. I. (Pa- 

 nax Coloni ; Ger. Em. 1005.) — Wliorls of fix (lowers. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, half embracing the dem. — Found 

 in marfhy watery places, about the banks of rivers, tiirough- 

 out Europe ; common in England, flowering in Aiiguft, 

 and very troublefome in low, wet cultivated fields. The 

 root is (iefliy and tuberous, creeping cxtenfively, and very 

 difficult of extirpation. Steins credt, two or three feet high, 

 (Irongly qu.adrangular, rough, with deflexed bridles. Leaves 

 felTile, (errated ; lilky above ; rather woolly beneath. Spiie 

 of many leafy whorls. Corolla light purple ; its lower lip 

 flrcaked with white and violet. The herb is fetid. G«>- 

 rardc calls it Clown's Woundwort, becaufe he was iiidrudtcd 

 by a clown to ufe it as a vulnerary, with fo much fuccefs, 

 that, according to hia account, it might fuperfede all other 

 fiirgical applications ! 



S. gennamca. Downy Woundwort. Linn. Sp. PI. 812. 



Willd. n. 6. Fl. Brit. n. 3. Engl. Bot. t. 829. Fl. Dan. 



t. 684. Jacq. Aullr. t. 3i'9. (S. Futhfii ; Ger. Em. ^19?. 



4 Q S. mon- 



