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THERMOPOHUM, formed of difi^o;, hoi, and wi^Xsu, 

 J fell, a name for a fort of public houfes among tjie ancients, 

 in which hot liquors were fold, in the manner of our cofFee- 

 houfes. 



THERMOPSIS, in Botany, from fi^^po,-, a Lupine, and 

 o4-i:, appearance or afpeS, indicating a general refemblance to 



that genus of plants Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. 3. 



lafs and order, Decandrla Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Papil'w- 

 }iu Linn. Leguminof^, JufT. 



Ch. Calyx oblong, fire-cleft half way down, two- 

 li ; convex behind ; tapering at ihe bale. Corolla pa- 



pilionaceous ; petals nearly of equal length ; llandard re- 

 flcxed at the fides, keel obtufc. Stamens permanent. Le- 

 gume comprefled, linear, with many feeds. Br. 



1. Th. lanceolata. Sharp-leaved Thermopfis. Ait. n. i. 

 (Podalyria lupinoides ; Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 504. Sophora 

 lupinoides ; Linn. Sp. PL 534. " Pallas Aftrag. 119. 

 t. 89.") — Leaflets oblong-ianceolate. Stipulas lanceolate, 

 twice as long as the footftalks Flowers whorled. — Native 

 of Siberia ; from whence the late duke of Northumberland 

 is faid to have received it in 1776. This is a hardy peren- 

 nial herbaceous plant, flowering in June and July, 'thejiems 

 .ire fpreading or decumbent, about a foot long, branched in 

 an alternate manner, round, hairy, leafy. Leaves ternate, 

 Jight green, hairy, on Ihort ftalks ; their ktificts about an 



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inch long. Stipulas half as large, or more. Flowers ftalked, 

 about three in each whorl, yellow, much refembling thofe 

 of a Lupine. Calyx hairy. 



By Mr. Brown's fpccific charatfter, we prefume there are 

 more fpecies of this genus, though not in our gardens, of 

 which he wiU one day give an account. For the foundnefs 

 of the generic diftinftions, we rely on him. The comprefled 

 legume leems the moft: important difference between Thermop- 

 Jis and the Baptifia of Ventenat and Brown ; fee Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. V. 3. 5 ; alfo our articles Sophora and Poda- 

 lyria. 



THERMOPYLiE, in Aneient Geography, a ftrait or 

 pafs, rendered famous by the valour of Leonidas and his 

 companions, who defended it againfl; the army of Xerxes 

 in the year 480 B.C ; and v./hich, long after that celebrated 

 event, was defended againfl: the Gauls. This pafs is the 

 only road by which an army can penetrate from Theflaly 

 into Locris, Phocis, Boeotia, Attica, and the adjacent 

 countries. The following fuccinA defcription is given of 

 this ftrait by the abb6 Barthelemy, in his " Anacharfis." On 

 quitting Phocis to go into Theffaly, having paffed the little 

 country of the Locrians, we arrive, fays the abbe, at the 

 town of Alpenus, fituated by the fea. As it ftands at the 

 entrance of the ftrait, it has been fortified. The road at 

 iirft is only vnde enough for the pafTage of a waggon ; but 

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