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iienigeiilibCOiidilorLfque." Cxfar thouglit tliat Pluto was 

 honoured under this appellation. Accordingly he fays 

 (De Bell. Gall. 1. 6.) " the Druids report that the Gauls 

 are come from Dis or Pluto, who after his death was wor- 

 fliipped by both nations as their father and founder, by the 

 Gauls under the name of Pluto, and by the Germans under 

 that of Tuillon, and both of them erefted flatucs to him 

 in the woods." 



Some have afcribed the origin of the name Tucfday to 

 this deity. See Week. 



TUITIRICA. iii Ornithology, the name of a, Brafdian 

 parroquet, which is a little larger than the common kind ; 

 all over of a fine beautitul green, but deeper on the back 

 and winefs than elfewhere ; its beak is very hooked, and of 

 a pale red ; its eyes black, and its feet blue ; its tail is but 

 a little longer than the wings when clofed. This is a fpe- 

 cies much efteemed in the Brafils, as it eafily learns to talk, 

 and becomes fo tame as to eat out of any one's mouth. See 

 PsiTTACUS Tirica. 



TUK, in Geography, a town of Charafm ; 1 8 miles N. 

 of Urghenz. — Alfo, a town of Egypt, on the left bank 

 of the Nile ; 6 miles N. of Nekkade. 



TuK el EJfirat, a town of Egypt; 5 miles N. of 

 Girge. 



TUKERA, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude ; 14 miles 

 N. of Lucknovv. 



TUKKIKARI, a town on the eaft fide of the gulf 

 of Bothnia. N. lat. 65" 26'. E. long. 25° 12'. 



TUKLAKTAK, an ifland in the North fea, near the 

 coaft of Eaft Greenland. N. lat. 61°. W. long. 46' 20'. 



TUKOOR, a town of Abyffinia; 20 miles W. of 

 Tcherkin. 



TUKURN, a town of the duchy of Courland ; 32 

 miles E.S.E. of Goldingen. 



TUL, a town of Grand Bucharia ; 36 miles S.E. of 

 Anderab. 



TULA, a city of Ruffia, and capital of a government, 

 on the Upha. According to Bufching, it contains 144 

 churches and convents. Near it are fome iron mines, and in 

 the city are manufadlures of fire-arms, all forts of cutlery and 

 other works in pohfhed fteel, and leather. The number of 

 merchants, including (hop-keepers, is eftimatcd at 4000, 

 fome of whom are very rich. The number of inhabitants 

 is ftated at 30,000 : the population is increafing, and be- 

 fides wooden buildings here are many of ftone ; 1 1 2 miles 

 S. of Mofcow. N. lat. 53° 4S'- E. long. 37° 39'-.— 

 Alfo, a town of Mexico Proper ; 40 miles N. of Mexico. 

 —Alfo, a river of Mexico, which runs into lake Chapala, 

 near Zamora. 



TULACUM, in Natural Hi/lory, a name given by the 

 people of the Eaft Indies to a fpecies of the yellow orpi- 

 ment, of the coarfer kind, variegated with red. They 

 prepare this by feveral calcinations, and then give it inter- 

 nally in fevers, and many other diforders, efteeming it a 

 fort of panacea. They fay that gold may be extrafted 

 from it, which is not improbable ; for it is well known, 

 that fome of the Roman emperors did aftually procure 

 gold from one of the other kinds of orpiment, which is 

 now found at GofTelaer in Saxony. 



TULAH, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Bengal ; 31 miles E. of Dacca. 



TULBAGIA, in Botany, fo named by Linnxus in 

 honour of the Dutch governor Tulbagh, long refident at 

 the Cape of Good Hope, who fent numerous plants from 

 that country to profeffor Burmann, and furnifhed Linnaeus 

 with feveral of its isfefts, particularly a fine fpecies of 

 Papilio, which is called Tulbaghia, being one of the tribe of 



Nymphales; fee Syft. Nat. ed. 12. v. 2. 775. Linn. Maut. 2. 

 148. Schreb. Gen. 215. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 33. Mart. 

 Mill. Dia. v. 4. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. 213. Juff. 54. 

 Lamarck lUuftr. t. 243. Gxrtn. t. 16 — Clafs and order, 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 'Hsl. Or&. Spathaceis, \Ann. Narclffi, 

 Juff. 



Gen. Ch. corredted from the Linnsean MSS. Cal. 

 Sheath of two oblong membranous valves, containing many 

 ttalked flowers. Cor. of one petal, inferior, falver-fhaped ; 

 tube cylindrical ; limb in fix equal, lanceolate, acute, 

 fpreading fegments, ftiorter than the tube. Neftary of three, 

 diilinft or combined, cloven, acute, equal, flefhy leaves, 

 crowning the tube. Stam. Filaments fix, very fhort, three 

 in the throat of the tube, three lower down ; anthers heart- 

 fiiaped, acute, pyi. Germen fuperior, ovate ; ilyle cylin- 

 drical, much (horter than the tube; ftigma turbinate, de- 

 prelfed. Perk. Capfule ovate, with three angles, three 

 intermediate furrows, three cells, and three omarginate 

 valves. Seeif.s few, oblong, obtufe, triangular, ccmprefled, 

 corrugated. 



EiL Ch. Corolla falver-fliaped ; limb in fix equal feg- 

 ments. Neftary of three cloven fcales, crowning the tube. 

 Stamens three in the throat, three within the tube. Cap- 

 fule fuperior, of three cells and three valves. Seeds 

 compreffed. 



1. T. alliacea. Green and Brown Tulbagia. Linn. Suppl. 

 193. Willd. n. I. Ait. n. I. Thunb. Prodr. 60. Curt. 

 Mag. t. 806. (T. capenfis ; Linn. Mant. 2. 223. Jacq. 

 Hort. Vind. v.2. 52. t. 115.) — Flowers drooping. Nec- 

 tary of one leaf, in fix fegments, as long as the hmb of the 

 corolla. — Native of low fandy fpots, near the town, at the 

 Cape of Good Hope, flowering about July, and called by the 

 Dutch colonifts IViMe Knoplooi, or Wild Garlick. It is 

 faid to be ufed for diforders of the breaft, ftewed in milk ; 

 but whether internally or externally, is not recorded. This 

 fpecies was fent to Kew by Mr. Maffon, in 1774. Jacquin 

 had it a few years earlier. Root tuberous, with numerous 

 flefhy fibres. Leaves radical, ereft, numerous, two-ranked, 

 linear, bluntifti, channelled ; flieathing at the bafe. Stali 

 folitary, about a foot and a half or two feet high, roundifti, 

 fimple, bearing a loofe umbel of from ten to fifteen fpread- 

 ing or drooping Jlowers, whofe partial Jlalhs are near an 

 inch and a half long. Each flower is rather fmaller than a 

 Harebell, oppreflively fweet in an evening. Corolla green 

 or flightly glaucous. A'^f<?ar)'purphfli-brown. i'cciif black. 

 The whole plant, when ever fo flightly bruifed, exhales a 

 rank fmell of garhck, ftill perceptible in the old dried 

 fpecimens of the Linna:an herbarium, whenever they are 

 touched or moved. 



2. T. cepacea. Purple Tulbagia. Linn. Suppl. 194, 

 excluding the fynonyms. Willd. n. 2. Ait. n. 2. Thunb. 

 Prodr. 60.— Flowers ereft. Nedary of three diftinft 

 cloven leaves, half as long as the limb of the corolla. — 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was 

 fent by Mr. Maffon to Kew garden in 1795. A fmaller 

 plant than the foregoing, with much narrower leaves. 

 Umbel, in our only fpecimen, of feven flo-wcrs, whofe 

 corolla is purple, or crimfon. Of the colour of the nec- 

 tary we cannot judge, but its length is ab6ut half that of 

 the fegments of the petal. 



There can fcarcely be a greater example of confufion 

 than the hiftory of thcfe two plants in the Supplementam of 

 Linnxus, nor could it be unravelled without the original 

 fpecimens. If in the charafter and defcription of the firft, 

 we res.^ folia fubenfiformia, inftead oi fuljiliformia, it may 

 be intelligible. The root moreover, in one fpecimen, feems 

 bulbous. AU the reR anfwers tolerably well. In the 



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