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from a dried fptuiiiicii. On this fubjeCl \tc have no parti- 

 cular information. Several drawings of this genus and its 

 allies, made in New Holland, have paffed under our in- 

 Ipettion, and d'fplav a degree of elegance which renders 

 the plants highly defirable. , 



Of the twentv-one fpecies, feventeen are hexandrous, four 

 triandrous. 



Seft. I. Slamensjis. 



Th. tub-rofus. Tuberous Fringe-bloffom. Br. n. i. — 

 " Bulbs fafciculated, ilallced. Radical leaves channelled, 

 lax, fniooth, rather (horter than the round, fmooth, pa- 

 nicled (lem. Umbels of two or three flowers. Anthers 

 unequal." — Gathered by Mr. Brown, near Port Jackfon, 

 New South Wales. 



Th. junceus. Rufli-leaved Fringe-bloffom. Br. n. 9. 

 (Chlamylporum jnncifolium ; Salif. Parad. t. 103.) — " Root 

 fibrous. Stems branched, difFufe, round, llriated ; branches 

 nightly angular. Radical leaves fhort ; thofe of the llem 

 llraight, (lightly fpreading. Umbels of few flowers. 

 Anthers unequal." — Native likevvife of Port Jackfon, 

 from whence we have received fpecimens by favour of 

 Dr. White. The Jlems are about a foot long, diffufe, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Brown, fmooth, flender, rufliy, alternately 



branched Flowers about an inch in diameter, their inner 



fegments obtufe, delicately fringed. They are faid to be 

 very tranfient. 



Th. dlchotomus . Forked Fringe-bloffom. Br. n. 14. 

 ( Ornithogalum dichotoraum ; Labillard. Nov. Holl. v. i. 

 83. t. 109.) — Root fibrous. Radical leaves hifpid. Stem 

 round, ilriated, with numerous rather fpreading branches ; 



forked above. Flowers folitary. Anthers unequal 



Gathered in Lewin's land by M. Labillardiere, from 

 whom we have a fpecimen. The Jlem is 15 or 18 inches 

 liigh, repeatedly divided from the bottom, fo as to be 

 ulmofl; corymbofe at the top, rougliifh to the touch, flightly 

 leafy. Radical leaves numerous, aboMt four inches long, 

 ereft, linear, obtufe, entire, channelled, rough with fliort, 

 rigid, pale, prominent hairs ; (heathing at the bafe ; tliofe 

 of the ftem folitary under each branch, fhort, awl-fliaped, 

 flriated, clafping the ftem with a dilated, membranous 

 margin in the lower part. Flowers terminal, two or three 

 to each brancii, but it appears to us that the individual 

 ones are folitary. Three inner fegments purple on the 

 infide, with a fringe of the fame colour ; their outfide, like 

 the whole of the outer ones, green, jitithers but flightly, 

 if at all, unequal. Valves of the capfuk beaked. 



Seft. 2. Stamens three. 



Th. triandrus. Triandrous Fringe-bloffom. Br. n. 18. 

 (Ornithogalum triandrum ; Labill. Nov. Holl. v. i. 84. 

 t. 1 10.) — " Root fibrous. Leaves linear, fringed, the length 

 of the fmooth unbranched common flower-ftalk. Umbel 

 many-flowered. Lower joint of each partial ftalk feveral 

 limes longer than the bracteas. — Gathered by Labillardiere, 

 in Lewin's land. Stalks one or more, compreffed, a fpan 

 high, as well as the numerous, all radical, leaves. Umkd 

 of about nine Jlozuers ; its Jlalis jointed below the middle. 

 Stamens but three, oppofite to the three fringed fegments 

 of the corolla, which are purple on the infidc. 



THYSANUS, from ^v(favo;, a fringe, becaufe of the 

 fringed tunic of the feed. — Loureir. Cochinch. 284.— Clafs 

 aad order, Decandria Tetragynia. Nat. Ord. Terdnntace/e, 

 Juff.? 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of five coloured, per- 

 manent, lanceolate, concave, hairy, fpreading leaves. Cor. 

 bcll-(haped, of five fpreading oblong petals, the fize of 

 the calyx. Stam. Filaments ten, fhort, reflexed ; anthers 

 ioundifh, ereft, of tno cells. P'ljl. Germen fuperior, 



quadrangular 5 ftyles four, thread-fiiaped, inferted lateraUT 

 into the four angles of the germen ; ftigmas (lightly 

 cloven. J'eric. Drupas four, oblong, gibbous, recurve" 

 at the point, with a woolly co.at, burihng laterally. Setds' 

 Nuts folitary, oblong-ovate, fmooth, naked at the top> 

 enveloped in their lower part with a flelhy, fringed, red 

 tunic. 



Eff. Ch. Petals five. Drupas four, gil)bous. Nuts 

 with a fringed tunic. 



I. Th. Palala. Deei Khe of the Cochinchinefc 



Native of the woods of Cochinchina. A large, woody, 

 nearly ereft, branching Jhrub, without thorns. Leaves 

 pinnate, of about ten pair of oblong, entire, fmooth 

 leaflets. Stalks axillary, many-flowered. Calyx red. Co- 

 rolla white. Wing, or tunic, of the nuts red. 



Such is the defcription of Loureiro, who quotes, with 

 a mark of doubt, Palala fecunda ; Rumph. Amboin. v. 2. 

 26. t. 6. But that is a Myrijlica, and has fimple leaves. 

 Yet hence the fpecific name appears to be taken. He 

 more juftly indicates the affinity of his plant to S'rmaha ; 

 Aubl. Guian. 400. t. 155, of which we propofe to tr»at 

 hereafter in its. proper place, under Schreber's name of 



ZwiXGEKA. 



We pfefume Loureiro's Thyfanus to be very nearly 

 related to Cnestis of .luffieu and Willdenow ; fee that 

 article. The number of germens may be very variable or 

 uncertain. What the author terms a drtipa, appears, 

 from its burfting laterally, to be a true follicle, as is the 

 feed-vcffcl of Cnejlis. Whether the feed of the latter 

 has any thing analogous to the fringed tunic, does not 

 appear. 



THYSDRUS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa 

 Propria, and one of thofe which, according to Ptolemy, lay 

 to the S. of Adrumetum. 



THYSIUS, (Thvs,) Antony, in Biography, a philolo- 

 gift, was born at Leyden in 1603, and became profeffor of 

 eloquence and poetry in the univcrfity of his native city, 

 and public librarian. Befides two or three works of his 

 own, he was the editor of feveral editions of clalfics called 

 " Variorum ;" of which were " Valerius Paterculus," 

 " Sallull," " Valerius Maximus," " Seneca the Trage- 

 dian," " Laftantius," and " Aldus GeUius." 'He died in 

 1670. 



THYSSAGETiE, hi Ancient Geography, a people who 

 inhabited the territory near the Sarmatse, where was the 

 fource of the river Tanais. Animianus MarceUinus fays 

 that thefe people had their abode in large forefts, and lived 

 by the chace. Their wives and children they had, he fays, 

 in common. Herodotus fays they were a numerous nation, 

 and governed by their own laws. Hardouin, in his notes 

 on Pliny, fays that they inhabited the banks of the Tanais, 

 towards that bend of the river, where it moft nearly ap- 

 proaches the Wolga, and which is now the territory of 

 Aftrachan. 



THYSSELINUM, in Botany, a name adopted by 

 Lobel in his hones, 711, for the Seltnum fylveflre ol Lin- 

 nsEUS. Lobel cites Pliny, but the name in that author is 

 ThyPfclium. The plant to which it belonged was "not un- 

 like parfley, Apium ; its root when chewed purged humours 

 from the head." Rivinus, Pentap. Irr. t. 19 and 20, has 

 the Linnasan Selinum fylveflre and paluflre under the generic 

 name of Thyffelinvm, as has Tournefort likewife, in his 

 Inflitutioncs, 319. The latter diftingui(hes his genus from 

 Oreofelinum folely by its milky juice. As this juice is 

 highly acrid, thefe authors (liould feem to confider the 

 word as derived from foi-, to burn, and a-Xim-,, parjliy. 

 Linnxus omitted the firfl fyllabk as, in his opinion, fupcr- 



Ouous, 



