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and fhaggy. Leaflets nvimcrous, oval-oblong. Clufter 

 terminJ, manv-flowend — In dry fandy woods, from Ca- 

 nada to Florida, flowering in .Iimc and July. Root peren- 

 nial. Plant about a foot higli. Flowers very handfome, 

 rofe^oloured and vellowilh-white. Purjl}. The fern is 

 fimple, leafy, angular, brown, clothed \yith hoary pu- 

 befcence. Leaves alternate, nearly fefiile, pninate, of from 

 17 to 21, not quite oppofite, entire leafets, each about an 

 inch lontr, hain,' on both fides, tipped with a minute point. 

 Clujler folitary, various in length, compofed of numerous 

 large _/7oTi;wj, not unlike thofe of a Lupine. Calyx denfely 

 hairy. Legume an inch and a half long, pointed, linear, 

 hairy, fomewhat undulated, and a little curved upward, 

 tumid where the feeds are lodged. Miller appears to have 

 cultivated this plant in 1765. We have never feen a living 

 fpecimen. That we have here defcribed was fent by Kalm 

 to Linnteus. The legumes came from Jacquin's herbarium. 



2. T. chryfophylla. Golden-leaved Grey-Vetch. Purfli 

 n. 2. (Galega villofa; Michaux Boreal.-Amer. v. 2. 67 ? 

 PaiJ],. ) — Proilrate, downy. Leaflets five, fomewhat wedge- 

 fliaped, very obtufc. Flower-flalks oppofite to the leaves. 

 Legume nearly ftraight. — Gathered in Georgia by Mr. 

 Enflen, flowering in July and Augufl:. Perennial. Leaf- 

 lets wedgefliaped-obovate ; fmooth above ; filky at the back. 

 Stalis elongated, bearing about three purple ^oiyi";v. The 

 Angular circumftauce of the nearly feffile leaves gives it the 

 appearance of a trifoliate plant, the lower pair of leaflets 

 refembling_/?i^u/rtj. Michaux's fynonym is rendered doubt- 

 ftJ by his not mentioning the fmall number of leaflets, one 

 of the moft ftriking charafters. Purjh. 



3. T. hifpidula. Hifpid Grey-Vetch. Purfh n. 3. 



f' Galega hifpidula; Michaux Boreal-Amer. v. 2. 68. G? 

 picata; Walt. Carol. 188. Erebinthus ; Mitch, as above. 

 Clitoria, n. 3 ; Linn. Hort. Cliff. 498, excluding the very 

 erroneous reference to Burmann. ) — Slender, diffufe, downy. 

 Leaflets numerous, oblong-elliptical, abrupt, pointed. 

 Flower-flalks oppofite to the leaves. Legume falcate, hif- 

 pid. — \\\ pine woods and on flate hills, from Virginia to 

 Georgia. Perennial, flowering from July to September. 

 Leaflets 13 or 15. Stalls elongated, bearing from three to 

 five pale-red^^oTOcrj. PurJh. Every part of this defcrip- 

 tion anfwers to the original fpecimens of Mitchell's plant, 

 but he, as well as Linnceus, fpeaks of the ten\.)\ flamen as 

 being really feparate from the reft. We cannot from our 

 fpecirr.ens determine this point. The ferns are long, 

 branched, trailing, round, and hairy. Leaflets with ftrong 

 oblique tranfverfe veins ; fometimes fmootli above ; always 

 filky beneath ; their length about an inch. Bra&eas lanceo- 

 late. Calyx very briflly. Perhaps the union of the tenth 

 Hamen to the reft, which is not in the ufual mode continued 

 quite to the bafe, even in T. virgtniana, may exift lefs, or 

 not at all, in the fpecies before us, and yet the plants may 

 together conftitute one natural genus. 



TEPID, in Natural Hiflory, a term ufed by writers on 

 mineral waters, to exprefs fuch of them as have a lefs fen- 

 fible cold than common water. 



They diftinguifli all the medicinal fprings into three 

 kinds ; the hot, the tepid, and the cold : but the middle 

 term might eafily be mifunderllood to mean a great deal 

 more than they exprefs by it : all that have what can be 

 called the leaft fci.fible warmth, are called hot; and the 

 tepid are diftinguifhed from the abfolutely cold, only by 

 their being lefs cold. 



Some of this clafs of mineral waters, and fome few alfo 

 of the cold ones, have a (harpifti vinous tafte, which is 

 never obferved in any of the hot ones. This tafte is loft 

 on giving the waters the flighteft heat, and is therefore very 



difficult to be guelTed at as to its origin. It is not only 

 found in the aluminous and vitriolate waters, but alfo in 

 thofe whicli are manifcftly nitrous, and which abound in 

 fulphureous falts, quite different in their nature from acids. 

 It is therefore an additional fomewhat, quite diftinft from 

 the faline properties of the fluid, and as eafily connefted 

 with one kind of that as with the others. 



The caufe of heat in the mineral waters remains yet 

 wholly unknown, notwithftandiiig all that has been written 

 concerning it. It is hard to believe, that there are con- 

 tinual fubterranean fires near enough the furface, to give a 

 heat that preferves itfelf in fo great a degree to the very 

 place of their eruptions ; and it is equally hai-d to conceive, 

 that there can be beds of fermenting mineral matters, fuffi- 

 cient in quantity and force to have given the fame degree of 

 heat to waters for fo many ages, as fome of our hot fprings 

 are known to have fubfitted. Duclos's Exam, des Eaux 

 Miner. 



TEPIDARIUM, among the Romans, a tepid or 

 blood-warm bath, which was joined to the cold and hot 

 baths, and was a medium between the two ; fo that if any 

 perfon wanted to go from the hot to the cold bath, or vice 

 verfd, he always took the tepid bath in his way. 



TEPIQUE, in Geography, a town of Mexico, in the 

 province of Xalifco ; 5 miles N. of Xalifco. 



TEPIRU, a town of South America, in the province 

 of Tucuman ; 18 miles N.W. of St. Yago del Eftero. 



TEPKAS, a Ruffian fettlement in North America, on 

 the eaft fide of Beering's ftrait. N. lat. 66°. E. long. 

 112° 4'. 



TEPLITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leit- 

 meritz, celebrated for its warm baths, difcovered in 762 ; 

 14 miles W.N.W. of Leitmeritz. — Alfo, a town of 

 Croatia ; 8 miles S. of Varafdin. 



TEPLOW, Gregory Nicolaicuitsch, in Biography, 

 a Ruffian writer, educated in a feminary at Novogorod, 

 where he diftinguifhed himfelf by a Latin tranflation of 

 prince Cantemir's Satires, and a work on the geography of 

 Ruffia, neither of which was ever printed. In 1740 he 

 was employed in the Academy of Sciences, and in forming 

 a catalogue of objefts contained in the Cabinet of Natural 

 Hiftory. He thus acquired a tafte for that fcience, and 

 particularly for botany ; in confequence of wliich he was 

 made an adjunft of the Society in 1741, and in the follow- 

 ing year delivered leftures on moral philofophy, that were 

 much approved. The emprefs Elizabeth appointed him 

 tutor and travelling companion to her favourite, count 

 Rafumoufky, who, on his return from his travels in 1 746, 

 was made prefident of the Academy of Sciences. Teplow 

 then became an honorary member, direfted the inftitution 

 in the name of the prefident, and drew up rules for its 

 better regulation. At the time of 'the emprefs's death he was a 

 counfellor of ftate ; but as he was an enemy to Peter III., he 

 was arrefted : afterwards he was rcftored to favour ; never- 

 thelefs, two months after bis being made a member of the 

 council of ftate, it was difcovered that he had joined in a 

 confpiracy to dethrone that unfortunate prince. After the 

 depofition of Peter, he publifhed manifeilations, in order to 

 render him odious, and, as Bufching fays, was the principal 

 agent in putting him to deatli. For this fervice he is faid 

 to have received a reward of 20,coo rubles. The emprefs 

 afterwards made him a privy-counfellor and member of the 

 fenate, and honoiu-ed him with the orders of Alexander 

 Newfliy and St. Ann. He died in March 177';; and his 

 works, in the Ruffian language, are, " A General View of 

 Philofophy ;" " Liftruftions to his Son ;" " A CoUeaion 

 of Songs, with Melodies for three Voices ;" " Inftruftions 



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