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TRONZAN, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Po ; 7 miles N.W. of Turin. 



TROO, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Loir and Cher ; 10 miles S.W. of Vendome. 



TROON Bay, a bay on the W. coall of Scotland, 

 and county of Ayr ; N. of Troon Point. 



Troo.v Point, a cape on the W. coaft of Scotland, and 

 county of Avr. N. lat. '^^'^ 36'. W. long. 4° :;6'. 



TROONGOOMBA, a town of Africa, in the king- 

 dom of Lulamar ; 12 miles S.W. of Benowm. 



TROOP, a fmall body of horfe, or dragoons, ufually 

 about fifty or fixty ; commanded by a captain, captain-lieu- 

 tenant, cornet, quarter-mafler, and three or four corporals, 

 ■ who are the lowefl officers in a troop ; anfwering to a 

 I company of foot. 



1 Troop, Independent, is a troop that is not embodied in, 

 j or joined with, any regiment. 



I Troop, To beat the, is the lame with beating the aflembly. 

 I Troops of the Houjbold. See Houshold. 

 ! Tuaov-Sh'tp, is generally ufed to conduft troops from 

 5 one place to another. 



; TROOPER, in the Military Art, a private man in a 

 troop of horfe. 

 i TROPiEA, in Mythology, a name given to Juno, be- 

 caufe Ihe was thought to prefide over triumphs ; and in 

 thefe ceremonies facrifices were offered to her. 



TROPa;A, in Ancient Geography, a town of Italy, in 

 Brutium, towards the weft. As the name fignifies trophy, 

 it is thought that the place affumed it after a viftory gained 

 here by Sextus Pompeius. 



Trop^a Druji, a town of Germany, according to Pto- 

 lemy, fituated between the Sala and the Rhine, in the place 

 where Drufus died ; though this faft is queftioned on the au- 

 thority of Dion Caffius, 1. xv. Tacitus reports that it was 

 the place where Tiberius was faluted emperor by the Ro- 

 man army. The Romans were accuftomed, after their vic- 

 tory, to raife a trophy, confifting of the arms of the van- 

 quifhed, and to infcribe on its bafe the names of all the 

 nations which had participated in the defeat : and in pro- 

 cefs of time this trophy became a town. 



Trop;ea Pollucis, or Trophies of Pollux, were fituated 

 in Sparta, beyond the temple of Efcnlapius, according to 

 Paufanias, who adds, that Pollux erefted them after a vic- 

 tory which he gained over LyncKum. 



TroPjEA Pompeii, a name given to a monument erefted 

 by Pompey, after having terminated the war of Spain 

 againft Sertorius, upon which he cauied to be infcribed, 

 according to Pliny, that from the Alps to the extremity 

 of Farther Spain, he had fubdued 876 towns. This monu- 

 ment was adorned with the fpoils which had been pre- 

 ferved, and on this account Strabo (1. iii. p. 156.) defig- 

 nates it by the term avu^ifiolct.. It was fituated on the 

 way which entered Spain by the plain of Juncaria, at the 

 dlftance of fixty-three miles from Narbonne. 



Trop.^a Romanonnn £5° Sylla, the trophies of the Ro- 

 mans and of Sylla, were eretted by the Romans and by 

 Sylla on the plain of Cheronjea, in Boeotia, to comme- 

 morate a viftory obtained over Taxilus, general of the army 

 of Mithridates. Paufanias. 



Trop.ia, a town of the Peloponnefus, in Arcadia, upon 

 the route from Pfophis to Telphufa, to the left of Ladon, 

 and near the wood called Aphrodifium. Paufanias. 



Trgp-IiA Augufli, a town of Italy, in Liguria, accord- 

 ing to Ptolemy, near Portus Herculis. 



Trop_*:a Augufli, or Trophies of Auguflus, fituated near 

 the fea, between Nice and Portus Herculis. 



TROPjEOLUM, in Botany, the diminutive of tropitum. 

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or TfDTOsiov, a nuarlihe trophy. This fanciful but elegant 

 name was chofea by Linnseus, in Hort. Cliff. 143, for the 

 prefent Angular and linking genus, becaufe he conceived 

 the (hield-hke leaves, and the briUiant flowers, Ihaped like 

 golden helmets, pierced through and through, and ftained with 

 blood, might very well juftify fuch an allufion. Particularly 

 when the plants are oftentatioufly trained over the trellis or 

 alcove of a garden, as is commonly the cafe. The names 

 of Naflurtium indicum, Cardamindum, and Acriviola, given 

 by preceding botanills, in reference to the crefs-like flavour 

 of the herbage, are all liable to exception, for various rea- 

 fons, explained in the Philofophia Botanica. It is remark- 

 able that the firft of thefe has remained, as the popular 

 appellation of this genus ; though Indian Crefs, conveying 

 the farse idea in Engliili, with more precifion, is preferable. 

 —Linn. Gen. 186. Schreb. 249. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. 

 298. Mart. Mill. Did. v. 4. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. 339. 

 JufT. 269. Lamarck Illuftr. t. 277. Gaertn. t. 79. (Car- 

 damindum ; Tourn. t. 244. Acriviola ; Boerh. Lugd.- 

 Bat. ed. 2. V. I. 244.) — Clafs and order, Offandria Mono- 

 gynia. Nat. Ord. Trihilatx, Linn. Geraniis ajine, JufF. 

 Rather, in our opinion, totally undetermined. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, five- 

 cleft, flightly ipreading, acute, coloured, deciduous ; two 

 inferior fegments narroweft ; bafe elongated behind into a 

 ftraight, tubular, awl-lhaped, clofed neftary, longer than 

 the legments. Cor. Petals five, roundifh, inferted between 

 the legments of the calyx ; the two uppermoft feflile ; 

 three lower with oblong fringed claws. Stam. Filaments 

 eight, awl-<haped, (hort, unequal, declining ; anthers ob- 

 long, ftraight, afcending. Pifl. Germen fuperior, roundifh, 

 three-lobed, ftriated ; ilyle fimple, ereft, the length of the 

 ftamens ; ftigma in three acute fegments. Peric. Berries 

 three, combined, dry and leathery ; externally convex, 

 deeply furrowed and wrinkled ; internally angular. Seeds 

 folitary, roundifti, agreeing nearly with the ftiape of the 

 berries ; their coat fimple, very thin. 



Eir. Ch. Calyx of one leaf, with a neftariferous fpur 

 behind. Petals five, unequal. Berries three, dry, coria- 

 ceous. 



Obf. Willdenow and Hort. Kew. have, by miftakc, 

 " petals four." 



1. T. minus. Small Indian-crefs or Nafturtium. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 490. Willd. n. 1. Alt. n. I. Curt. Mag. t. 98. 

 (Cardamindum minus et vulgare ; Feuill. Peruv. v. 3. 14. 

 t. 8. f. 2. Nafturtium indicum; Lob. Ic. 616. Ger. 

 Em. 2J2.) — Leaves peltate, flightly wavy; their angles 

 briftle-pointed. Petals acute — Native of Pern, from 

 whence its feeds were brought very early to Europe. 

 Gerarde cultivated this fpecies, but it has been fupplaiited 

 by the following in our gardens. The writer of this found 

 it in general cultivation about Geneva, in 1787, and re- 

 ftored it to the Englifti collections. Like the reft of the 

 prefent genus, this plant is a hardy annual in the natural 

 climate qf Europe, though perennial, if ftieltered from 

 froft. The flcms are branched, lax and twining, many 

 feet in length, round, fmooth, leafy. Leaves fcattered, 

 roundifh, fomewhat laterally peltate, wavj-, angular, entire, 

 fmooth ; their ribs radiating'from the fpot where the long 

 wavy jootflalk is inferted. Flowers axillary, folitary, on 

 long fimple ftalks refeinbling the footftalks ; their colour a 

 deep yellow, variegated and llreaked with orange and red. 

 The calyx is coloured like the petals ; its fpur near an inch 

 and half long. Prfa/j- about an inch. FruiV greenifti. The 

 whole plant has a hot pungent tafte, refcmbling creffcs of 

 various kinds. The flowers are (lightly fragrant. 



2. T. ma'ius. Great Indian-crefs or Nafturtium. Lmn. 



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