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little hills about Lima, and w. otlicr faiidy or (lony fituations 

 in Peru, flowcnng in Juiii; and July. The perennial root 

 throws out many pr«(lratc trailing /*oo//. Leuvis fprcading, 

 lix to nine inches long, whitifh. Stftns folitary, afoot high, 

 timple, clothed with long awl-fhapcdj/Zarf/^J. Panicle rofe- 

 colourcd, of from five to nine alternate A/7-«, with oval, con- 

 cave, whitiftv braatiu. Flo'u-frs felTae, with rofe-coloured 

 traSfot and cjfyx. Corolla dark purple, with a white tube. 

 Capfule pale ; deep purple within. 



24, T. hrfliintha. Seven-flowered Tillandlia. Fl. Pcruv. 

 V. 3. 21. (T. hcptandra ; Poiret. n. 15.) — Leaves radical, 

 fword-lhaped, tapering, very acute. Spike folitary, fimple, 



of about fcven flowers Native of rocks and trees, among 



precipices, in Peru, flowering from June to Auguft. Leaves 

 whitifli, and rather downy. Stem near a foot high, quite 

 fimplc, fcaly. F/oarrj feflile, in two ranks, with lanceolate 

 violet -coloured brnfleas. Corolla white, tipped with violet. 

 We prefume that M. Poiret has erred in his fpecific name. 



i^.T.feJiliftora. Seffile-floweredTillandfia. Poiret n. 16. 

 Fl. Peruv. V. 3. 42. t. 271. — Leaves radical, tongue-fliaped, 

 flat, obtufe. Spike folitary, fimplc — Native of Peru, 

 flowering in November and December. Root biennial. 

 Plant fmooth. Leaves eight or nine inclu;; long, and an 

 inch broad ; the outer ones gradually fmaller. Stems flender, 

 a foot high, jointed, clothed with obtufe Jlicaths. Spike fix 

 inches in length. Flowers alternate, folitary, each with an 

 oval, concave, acute braSea. Corolla of a violet purple on 

 the infide. 



26. T. capillaris. Capillary Tillandfia. Poiret n. 17. 



Fl. Peruv. V. 3. 42. t. 271. f. C Leaves linear-awlfliaped. 



Stem forked. Stalks axillary, moftly fingle-flowered, ca- 

 pillary, fmooth, thrice as long as the leaves. — On rocks, 

 walls, and trees, in Peru, flowering in November and De- 

 cember. This fpccies is faid to be related in many refpefts 

 to the T. recurvata, n. 1 6, but differs in having forked_/?('OTj ; 

 more numerous and broader leaves, contracted at their bafe, 

 and not recurved ; capillary Jlotuer-Jlalhs ; and folitary 

 bradeas to each Jloiuer. (We would obferve that the laft 

 charaAcr is found in the recurvala.) The plant forms 

 denfe, leafy, whitifli, tufts, the leaves being clothed with 

 very minute mealy fcalcs. Stems about fix inches high, 

 forked foveral times, furnifhed with two-ranked, crowded, 

 imbricated, reflexcd, linear-awlfliaped leaves, ttriated at 

 their bafe, and half clafping the fl;cm. Stalks fl;raight, bear- 

 ing one or tvro Jlo-wers, with a folitary, ribbed, fmooth 

 braaea, and a leaf at their bafe. Calyx fcariofe, deep 

 violet. CoroZ/j white, hardly longer than the calyx. Anthers 

 yellow. Capfules linear, twice the length of the calyx, 

 dark violet within. 



27. T. virefcens. Greenilh Tillandfia. Poiret n. 20. 

 Fl. Peruv. V. 3. 43. t. 270. f. B — Leaves linear-awlfliaped. 

 Stalks axillary, fingle-flowered, the length of the leaves, 

 with a fohtary convoluted braftea. — Native of rocks in 

 Peru, flowering in December and January. — A fmall fpecies, 

 forming denfe, proliferous, whitifli, warty tufts. Leaves 

 imbricated in two rows, reflexed at the point, ftriated at 

 the bafe. Flowers pale yellow. Capfule green, twice the 

 length of the calyx ; internally dark-purple. 



TILLANJONG, in Geography, one of the Nicobar 

 iflands, in the Indian fea. N. lat. 8° 40'. E. long. 94° 9'. 



1 ILLE, La, a river of France, which runs into the 

 Sa6ne, about 3 miles below Auxonne. 



Till(:, a town of France, in the department of the Oife ; 

 3 miles N. of Beauvais. 



TILLEE, a town of Bengal ; 28 miles N.W. of 

 Dacca. 



TILLEMANS, Peter, in Biography, was born at 



TIL 



Antwerp in 1684, and vifited England in 1708, where he 

 attracted attention by his excellent copies from the pictures 

 of Courgognone and Teniers, of whofe works he prcferved 

 the freedom and fpirit. He alfo painted landfcapes with 

 fmall figures, views of gentlemen's feats, fea-ports, &c. and 

 met with very confiderable employment. The duke of De- 

 vonfliirc favoured him, and for him he painted a pifture of 

 Chatfworth, which gained him confiderable eclat. He 

 died here in 1734. 



TILLEMONT, -Louls Sebastian le Nain de, a 

 French ecclefiaftical writer, was born at Paris in 1637 ; 

 and in the fchool of the Port-Royal, into which he was 

 admitted at the age of ten, he difcovered promifing talents 

 and a pious difpoiition. From early hfe he devoted himfclf 

 to the ftudy of ecclefiaftical antiquity, and made colleftions, 

 principally relatiijg to the firil fix centuries, with a view of 

 compofing a hift^ory of the church. Modefl: and diffident, 

 as well as learned, he deferred taking priefts' orders tiU his 

 40th year ; and having done this, he declined all preferment, 

 and retired firft to Port-Royal-des-Champs, and then to 

 Tillemont, near Viiicennes, profecuting his literary labours,, 

 and keeping in view his main objeft : he fubjefted himfelf 

 at the fame time to very rigid penitentiary difcipline. His 

 aufterities and intenfe application debilitated his confl:itutioil 

 to fuch a degree, that he died in 1698, at the age of 6 1 

 years. 



The plan of his great work comprehended two parts, 

 vi%. the fecular and the ecclefiaftical hiltory of the period 

 of which he propofed to treat. Accordingly the firfl; part, 

 entitled " Memoires pour fervir a I'Hilloire Ecclefiaftique 

 des fix premiers Si^cles," was comprifed in 16 vols. 410. 

 of which four volumes were pubhflied in his life-time, 

 and twelve more after his death. The other part, entitled 

 " L'Hiftoire des Empereurs et des autres Princes qui ont 

 regne durant les fix premiers Si^cles de I'Eglife," confifts 

 of 6 vols. 4to. the laft being left in M.S. and not puUliflied 

 till 1738, finifhing with the emperor Anaftafius. Dupin, 

 though he difapproves the method of Tillemont, obferves, 

 that great inftruftion may be derived from his hiftory, efpe- 

 cially with refpeft to critical and chronological matters. 

 His ftyle merits no commendation. Gibbon, who often 

 quotes his Hiftory of the Emperors, and praifes his fcrupulous 

 accm-acy, finds frequent occafion to cenfure his bigotry, 

 and remarks, that " he never difmifles a virtuous emperor 

 without pronouncing his damnation." Moreri. Gen. Biog. 



TILLENENSEE, in Geography, a lake of Pruffia, 8 

 miles W. of Lick. 



TILLER, or TiLLAR, in Hujbandry, a little young tree, 

 left to grow till it be fellable. 



Tiller is alfo a term ufed by farmers to fignify, that 

 the produce of the grain branches out into feveral ftalks ; 

 in which fenfe it denotes the fame thing with the Latin 

 word fruticare. 



It has been fuggefted by the writer of the " Elements 

 of Agricultural Chemiftry," that in the tillering of corn, 

 that is, the produftion of new ftalks round the original 

 plume, there is every reafon to beheve that oxygen mull be 

 abforbed ; for the ftalk at which the tillering takes place, 

 aKvays contains fugar, and the fhoots arife from a par| 

 which is deprived of light. The drill-hu(handry is there-' 

 fore fuppofed to favour this procefs ; as loofe earth is 

 thrown by the hoeing round the ftalks ; and they are pre- 

 feryed from light, and yet fupplied with oxygen. The 

 writer has counted from forty to one hundred and twenty 

 ftalks produced from a grain of wheat, in a moderately 

 good crop of the drilled kind. And we are informed, 

 it is faid, by fir Kenelm Digby, in 1660, that there was" 



