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VESCOVATO, a town of Italy, in the department of 

 the Upper Po ; 8 miles N.N.E. of Cremona. 



VESCOVIO, or Vescovfo ni Sahina, a town of the 

 Popedom, in the province of Sabina ; 12 miles S. of Narni. 



VESCOVO, La, n town of Naples, in Principato 

 Citra ; 14 miles W.S.W. of Amalfi. 



VESERIS, in /Indent Geography, a place of Italy, in 

 Campania, on the plains at the foot of mount Vefuvius. 

 Livy fays that it was in this place tiiat Dccius devoted 

 himfelf to the gods Manes, on occafion of a battle between 

 the Romans and Latins. 



V'ESICA, in Analomy, a bladder ; a membranous or 

 (kinny part in which any humour is contained. 



Vesica Bilaria. See GALL-BIadder. 



Vesica, among Chemijls, is a large copper vefTel tinned 

 on the infide, ufed in diitilling ardent fpirits ; fo called, as 

 refembhng the figure of a blown bladder. 



Vesic.5; Sph'inder, in Anatomy. See Sphixcteh. 



VESICARIA, in Botany, a genus of Tournefort's, thus 

 named from the bladdery appearance of its very large in- 

 flated feed-vclfel. — Tourn. Cor. 49. t. 483. — Linn-.eus re- 

 duces this plant to Alyjfum ; fee that article, n. 16. Tour- 

 nefort makes a finguiar remark, that " if the root were 

 flefliy, it would belong to the fame genus as Leonhipetalon ;" 

 fee Leoxtice. He fubfequently perhaps difcovered it to 

 be a true cruciform flower, as it undpubtedly is. No other 

 botanifl fecms to have met witii this plant ; though Willde- 

 now, like ourfelves, had feen a dried fpecimen, and he finds 

 fault, we think unjuftly, with the figure. Tourncfort met 

 with this fpecies in a bare and uncultivated v.i!ley of Ar- 

 menia, not far from Baiboul, early in June. The root is 

 ■woody, and appears to be perennial, crowned with tufts of 

 linear, channelled, toothed, nearly fmooth, bright-green 

 leaves, not an inch long. Stems three or four inches high, 

 fimple, clothed with fmaller, more entire, leaves. Fhiuers 

 corymbofe, fmall, yellow. Pouch fomewhat ovate, in- 

 flated, four-filled, an inch long, and nearly as broad, mem- 

 branous, fmooth, with four longitudinal angles and ribs, 

 and many reticulated veins, pale-green, purplith on one fide, 

 crowned by the permanent llyle. It coniifts of one cell, 

 wth two oppofite, linear, marginal, membranous receptacles, 

 into which the three or four oval feeils are inferted. — All 

 things confidered, we cannot but think this plant entitled 

 to rank a! a genus by itfelf, nor is the name exceptionable. 

 Though not furniflied v.'ith materials to draw up its full 

 generic character, we can give the effential diftuiftions. — 

 Clafs and order, Tclradynamia Siliculofa. Nat. Ord. Sili- 

 quofit, Linn. Crucifera, JufT. 



Elf. Ch. Pouch inflated, quadrangular, acute, of one 

 cell, with two linear marginal receptacles. Seeds fereral. 



I. V. eltntata. Toothed Bladder.crefs. (V. orientalis, 

 foliis dentatis ; Tourn. Cor. 49. Voyage, v, 2. 109, with 

 a plate. AlyfTum Veficaria ; Linn. Sp. PI. 910. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. V. 3. 470. Mill. Dift. ed. 8. n. 9.)— Native of 

 Armenia. It is fcarcely necefTary to remark, that Miller 

 merely adopted this plant from Tournefort, witfiout having 

 fcen it alive, nor can we difcover his authority for faying 

 thejlems fpread on the furface of the ground. They appear 

 by our fpecimen, as well as by Tournefort's figure, to be 

 upright. 



VESICATORY, Vesicatokium. See Blister, Can- 

 THAUiDEs, and Empi-astrum. 



Vcficatorics are a llronger fort of finapifms, and a kind of 

 potential cauteries. 



VESICULA, Ve.sicle, a diminutive of vefica; fignify- 

 ing a little bladder. 



The lungs confill of veficulx, or lobules of veficulx, ad- 



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mitting air from the bronchix ; and not only air. but alf 

 dull, &c. 



There are feveral parts in the body which bear this appel- 

 lation ; as, 



Vesicula Fellis, Ciflula FeUis. See GAhh-Bladder. 

 Vesicul.5; Seminales. See Genekat/on. 

 Vesicul.t, Seminales. Thefe veffels are very evident in 

 filh i the females of moil fifh have double ovaria, though 

 in fome they are fingle, as in the ofmerus, and perca fluvia- 

 tihs of Bellonius ; but the vcficulx fcminalcs in the males are 

 two in number in all fifh, not excepting the males of thofe 

 here mentioned. They differ, however, very much in re- 

 gard to their figure and fituation. As to their fituation, 

 they in fome fifh occupy almoft the whole length of the 

 abdomen, as in the fpinofe kinds in general, and in the 

 pctromyzum, acipenfer, and many of the other cartilagi- 

 nous kinds. In fome fifh, they are placed only in the 

 lower part of the abdomen, as in the cetaceous kinds, &e. 

 As to figure, in the generality of fifh they are oblon'g and 

 comprefted, but in forae they are round, as in the cetaceous 

 kinds. The other parts of generation .ire wanting in moft 

 fifh. Artedi's Ichthyology. 



Vesicul^ Adipofte. See Adeps, and Cellul;e Adi- 

 pofit. 



VESICULAR Glands. See Glands. 

 VESIDIA, or Versiglia, in Ancient Geography, a fmall 

 river of Italy, in Etruria. 



VESINNE, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Yonnc ; 10 miles S.E. of St. Florentin. 



VESIONICjE, in Ancient Geography, a place of Italy, 

 in Umbria, S.W. of Iguvium. 



VESIRE, in Geography, a river of France, which runs 

 into the Lignon, near its union with the Loire. 



VESLE, a river of France, which runs into the Aifne, 

 near Veilly. — Alfo, a river of France, which runs into the 

 Saone, oppofite Varenne-lc-Grand. 



VESLING, Joiix, in Biography, a phyficinn, anatomift, 

 and botanifl, was born at Mindcn, in Weftphalia, in the year 

 1598 ; and liaving fludicd medicine at Padua, he travelled 

 into Egypt, and upon his vifit to Jerufalcm, he became a 

 knight of the Holy Sepulchre. Upon his return, he was 

 appointed, in 1652, to occupy the firfl chair of anatomy at 

 Padua, lefturing alfo in furgcry and botany, and in 1638 

 fuperintending tlie botanical garden. In order to enrich 

 this garden, he travelled to Candia, and other parts of the 

 Levant, where he coUefted a large number of rare plants. 

 At length, exhaullcd by his labours, he died at Padua in 

 1649, at the age of 51 years. As an anatomift, he pub- 

 lifhed " Syntagma Anatomicum publicis Diffeftiombus 

 diligentcr aptatum," Patav. 1641, and again with additions 

 and figures, Patav. 1647 ; a work which has been often 

 reprinted and tranflated into various languages, and which, 

 though for the moft part a compilation, contains new obfer- 

 vatjons, efpecially pertaining to the organ of hearing. A 

 pofthumous work, entitled " De PuUitionc jEgyptiorum, 

 et ali* Obfcrvationes Anatomies, et Epiflolx Mediex 

 pofthums," Hafn. 1664, is highly commended by Hallcr, 

 and contains fome curious obfcrvations on the hatching of 

 eggs in Egypt, and evolution of parts of the chick, the 

 anatomy of the viper, crocodile, and hyxna, the human 

 ladleals and lymphatics, &c. His principal publications in 

 botany were, " De Plantis j'Egypti Obfcrvationes, et Notx 

 ad P. Alpinum," Patav. 1638; " Opobalfami Veteribus 

 cognitiVindiciT," Patav. 1644; and " Catalogus Plantarum 

 Horti Pataviiii," Patav. 1642-1644. Haller. Eloy. 

 VESLY, in Geography. Sec Veili.v. 

 VESOUL, a city of France, and capital of the depart- 

 ment 



