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■ t!on by Paracelfus, or any other chemift, as GeofFroy, 



I cited by Dilleiiius, nints ; from which thofe fapient philo- 



1 fophers hoped to extraft an univerfal folvent, or medicine ; 



we feel httle courage or curiofity to enquire. The fubieft 



: is as unprofitable as GeofFroy's own analyfes of various 



plants, the only advantage of which is to prevent any fimilar 



mode of inveiligation in future. 



T. granulata. Granulated Tremella. Hudf. 566. Engl. 

 I Bot. t. 324. (T. paluftris, veficuhs fphaericis fungiformi- 

 ; bus; Dill. Mule. 55. t. 10. f. 17. Ulva gi-anulata ; Linn. 

 [ Sp. PI. 1633 ; not Mant. 136.) — Green, globular, cluf- 

 i tered, membranous, containing a fluid. — Frequent on the 

 : mud of ditches and ponds, partly dried up, in autumn, in 

 ; various places round London. Linumerable crowded, 

 \ fomewhat ftalked, globules, each about the fize of muftard- 

 1 feed, and attached by fibrous radicles, compofe broad 

 ! green patches, which crackle under the feet when trodden 

 opon. Their watery contents, if not thus prematurely dif- 

 lodged, are finally difcharged fpontaneoufly, by a hole at 

 tiie top of each globule, after which the llcin coUapfes into 

 a cup-like form, with the fame hole in the centre. This 

 alfo muft be an annual plant, and fomething like feeds ap- 

 pears under its pellucid coat. It might fafely be removed, 

 with T. Nojloc, to Uha. Both thefe fpecies were noticed 

 !)V Dr. Sibthorp in the ifje of Zante. 



We are now to fpeak of fome reputed TremclU involved 

 in more uncertainty than any of the foregoing, and which 



I' we have therefore referved for the conclufion of our fubjeft. 

 i T. cruenta. Gory Tremella. Engl. Bot. t. 1800. — 

 Minutely granulated, diffufe, indeterminate, fhining, dark 

 ' purple. — Common about the lower parts of walls and 

 f;nufes, in damp fituations, during the wet wintry months. 

 AVe have obierved it in particular llreets for many fucceffive 

 years ; though in fummer no traces of fuch a production are 

 vifible. Nobody can overlook this vegetable, which forms 

 ! very broad, continuous, but indeterminate, patches, of a 

 deep, rich, (hining purple, as if blood, or red wine, had 

 bL-en poured over the Hones or ground. Under a micro- 

 scope, it proves to be a congeries of minute, pellucid, 

 globular granulations, all nearly of equal fize. No parti- 

 cular fccnt or flavour is perceptible, nor is there any other 

 ; indication of affinity to the Bi/fus Jolithus of various authors, 

 ' known by its violet fcent. This plant retains its colour 

 , when dried. 



, T. Sabinx. Savine Tremella. Dickf. Crypt, fafc. I, 

 '! 14. (Fungus gelatinus dentatus, Sabinae adnafcens, fulvi 

 : coloris ; Raii Syn. 16.) — Seflile, prominent, oblong, tooth- 

 !haped, tawny, fomewhat powdery. — This production 

 I fprings from the live wood, under the bark, of the mod 

 j vigarous branches of the Savine, which are always fwelled 

 in that part, though otherwife healthy. It is feen only ni 

 ' rainy, chiefly autumnal, weather ; and confitts of a number 

 1 of oblong, tremulous, gelatinous bodies, of a pale brownifli- 

 orange, fometimes hollow, externally powdery, often lobed, 

 various in l>fngth, from a line to about an inch, their fize 

 bearing a regular proportion to that of the branch whence 

 they originate. In dry weather thefe bodies fuddenly col- 

 lapfe and dry up. Similar excrefcences are found on the 

 Common Juniper, particularly its larger, or Swedifh, va- 

 riety, and are certainly what Linnaeus meant by his Tremella 

 juniperlna, for v/hich our firft-defcribed fpecies, T. mefen- 

 terka, has more than once been taken. BuUiard has re- 

 prefented what is found on the Juniper, in his Fungi, 

 t. 427, by the name of 7". ligularis ; from which the T. digi- 

 tata of Villars, Dauph. v. 3. 1007. t. 56, appears not at 

 all diffimilar ; nor does his T. juniperina, defcribed and 

 figured in the fame place, materially differ. Why the latter 



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is retained by Perfoon, n. 10, in his fecond feftion ; and 

 the ligularis of Bulliard, conjoined with other things in his 

 fourth, n. 22, under Wulfen's name of davariaformis, we 

 ara at a lofs to imagine, their forms being fo fimilar and fo 

 variable. It would be idle to detail all the imaginary 

 fpecies of various genera, by the name of Tremella, Clavarla, 

 Puccinia, &c. which authors of the firfl authority have 

 made out of the above -defcribed, or fimilar, produftions. 

 We have tried in vain to underlland them as fuch, and can- 

 not but perfift in our original opinion, that they are mere 

 gummy exudations, caufed by immoderate wet, accom- 

 panied by refinous particles, infoluble in water, which give 

 them a powdery appearance. Objeftions have been brought 

 againlt this hypothefis, but no fafts that difprove it. We 

 have feen in Italy a fimilar and indubitable exudation, in 

 wet weather, from the ftem of the vine. 



TREMELLIUS, Emanuel, in Biography, an excel- 

 lent Hebrew fcholar, was the fon of a Jew at Ferrara, and 

 born there about the year 15 10. Having been converted 

 to the Chrifl;ian faith by cardinal Pole and M. Flaminio, 

 he imbibed the principles of the Reformers, accompanied 

 Peter Martyr, and refided for fome time at Straiburg. 

 From Straiburg he came to England in the reign of Ed- 

 ward VI., and on his death left this country, and employed 

 himfclf in teaching Hebrew in the college of Hornbach in 

 Germany. He was afterwards profeflbr of Hebrew at 

 Heidelberg, and at this place tranflated into Latin the 

 Syriac verfion of the New Teftament, and joined Francis 

 Junius in a tranflation of the Old Teftament from tlie 

 Hebrew. From hence he removed to Metz, and finally to 

 Sedan, profecuting his employment of teaching Hebrew, 

 and died at the latter place in 1580. AU TremcUius^i 

 writings related to the Oriental languages ; and of thefe 

 were Hebrew, Chaldaie, and Syriac grammars, a Hebrew 

 Catechifm, Commentaries on the Prophecy of Hofea, and 

 the above-mentioned tranflatiocs. Of Iiis verfion of the 

 Bible, F. Simon fays that it is not much efteemed by tlie 

 Proteftants ; and that the writer's Jiidaifm has given him a 

 fingularity of manner, which makes him often wander from 

 the true fenfe of a paffage, and moreover that his Latin 

 flyle is affefted and inaccurate. Simon, Hift. Crit. du 

 Nouv. Teft. 



TREMENTINE, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Maine and Loire; 6 miles N.E. of 

 Chollet. 



TREMEZZO, a town of Italy, in the department of 

 the Lario ; 14 miles N. of Como. 



TREMITI, three fmall iflands in the Adriatic, near 

 the coaft of Naples ; they are called Capnaria, St. Donino, 

 and Tremiti or St. Nicolo. N. lat. 42° 10'. E. long. 



15° 34'- 



TREMITUS, a town of the ifland of Cyprus, at one 

 time the fee of a bifhop. It was deftroyed by Richard I. 

 king of England ; 12 miles W.S.W. of Nicofia. 



TREMLITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Bechin ; 7 miles S. of Potfchaken. 



TREMOLANTE, in the Glafs Trade, a name for the 

 preparation of calcined brafs, otherwife called orpello, ufed 

 either for a flcy-hlue, or a fea-green. 



TREMOLITE, in Mineralogy, a mineral which re- 

 ceived its name from Tremola, a valley in the Alps, where 

 it was difcovered. This mineral is clafled by Haiiy with 

 hornblende or amphibolc, and called by him amphilolc gram- 

 matite. It is divided by fome mineralogifts into tlu-ee fub- 

 fpecies ; afbeftous tremolite, common tremohte, and glafly 

 tremofite. They have all a fibrous or radiated ftrufture, 

 with a vitreous or pearly luftre. The filaments feel liarfli 

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