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VIM 



woolly, as in Vebbascum ; fee that article : fee alfo Pu- 

 bescence anJ Leaf. 



VILLOUS, ViLLOSA, is particularly applied to one 

 of the coats or membranes of the llomach, called crujla 

 villofa, 



It takes its name from innumerable villi, or fine fibrilla?, 

 with which its inner furface is covered. 



VILLURBANNE, in Geography, a town of France, 

 ia the department of the Ifere ; 4 miles E. of Lyons. 



VILMANSTRAND, or Wilmanstrand, a town of 

 Ruflla, in the government of Vibor^, on the fouth coaft of 

 tlie lake Saima ; 40 miles N.N.W. of Viborg. N. lat. 

 61° 20'. E. long. 27° 26'. 



VILMAR, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 

 Lower Rhine ; 24 miles N. of Mentz. 



VILMINOREU, a town of Italy, in the department 

 of the Adda and Oglio ; 28 miles N.E. of Bergamo. 



VILMNITZ, a town of the ifland of Rugen ; 7 miles 

 S.E. of Bergen. 



VILOVATOSTANOVITSCHE.afortrefsofRuffia, 

 in the government of Archangel, near the Frozen ocean ; 

 180 miles E.S.E. of Kola. N. lat. 68° 50'. E. long. 



VILS, a river of Bavaria, which pafles by Amberg, &c. 

 and runs into the Nab, at Kalmunz. — Alfo, a river of Wur- 

 temberg, which rifes near Wiefenftug, pafles by Geiftingen, 

 Coppingen, S:c. and runs into the Neckar, 2 miles N. of 

 Wendlingen. 



ViLS, or Gros, a river of Germany, which runs into the 

 Danube at Vilfliofen. 



ViLS Biburg, a town of Bavaria ; 8 miles S.E. of Land- 

 fhut. 



VILSECK, a town of Bavaria, on the Vils ; 20 miles 

 S.S.E. of Bayreuth. N. lat. 49° 36'. E. long. 1 1° 48'. 



VILSEN, a town of Germany, in the county of Hoya ; 



5 miles W. of Hoya. 



VILSHOFEN, a town of Bavaria, at the conflux of 

 the Vils with the Danube ; 1 1 miles W. of Pafl'au. N. 

 lat. 48'' 29'. E. long. 13° II'. 



VILTRUM, a word ufed fometimes alone to exprefs a 

 filtrc, inftead of the word fltrum. But -viltnim is more 

 commonly joined with the word philofophorum, and then cx- 

 prefles the common alembic for diftillation. 



VILUI, in Geography, a river of Ruffia, which runs 

 into the Lena, at Ull Viluiflioi. N. lat. 64°. E. long. 

 126' 14'. 



VILUISKOI, NiZNEi, a town of Ruflia, in the govern- 

 ment of Irkutflc, on the Vilui. N. lat. 63° 45'. E. long. 



122*44'. 



Vii.uisKOi, UJl, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 

 Irkutfli, at the conflux of the Vilui and Lena; 128 miles 

 N.W. of Yakutik. N. lat. 63° 50'. E. long. 126° 1J4'. 



ViLUiSKOi, Verchnei, a town of Ruflia, in the govern- 

 ment of Irkutflt ; 200 miles N. of Olcmin/k. N. lat. 

 63'' 44'. E. long. 120° 24'. 



VILVORDE, or ViLLEFORTE, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Dyle, fituated on tlie river Senne ; 



6 miles S. of Maliiics. 



VIM, a river of Ruflia, which rifes in the government 

 of Archangel, and runs into the Vitchegda, near Lialfkoi, 

 in the province of Ufl:iug. 



VIMERCATO, a town of Italy, in the department 

 of the Olona; 13 miles N.N.E. of Milan. 



VIMIEIRO, a town of Portugal, in the province of 

 Alontejo; 10 miles W. of Eilremoz. 



VIMINACIUM, or ViMiNATiUM, in Ancitnt Geogra- 



phy, a town otHifpania Citerior, belonging to the Vaccsci ; 

 marked in the Itin. Anton, between Palentiaand Lacobrigai 

 VIMINALIS, in Mythology, an epithet of Jupiter. 

 VIMINARIA, In Botany, was fo named by the writer 

 of this article, from vimen, a flender rod, or twig, in alluflon 

 to the habit of the plant. — Sm. in Sims and Kon. Annals 

 of Botany, v. i. 507. Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. 13. 

 — Clafs and order, Decandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Pa- 

 pilionacet, Linn. Leguminofit, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, Ample, of one leaf, 

 bell-fliaped, angular, with five fliort equal teeth, permanent. 

 Cor. papilionaceous. Standard inverfely heart -fliaped, af- 

 cending, with a Ihort claw. Wings oblong, obtufe, con- 

 verging, fliorter than the ilandard, each with a tooth at the 

 bafe, on the lower fide, and a fliort flender claw. Keel 

 nearly equal to the wings, of two combined petals, with 

 diftinCi; claws, concave, with a blunt tooth at each fide of 

 the upper edge, at the bafe. Stam. Filaments ten, awl- 

 fliapcd, difl;inft, rather afcending, the lower ones gradually 

 longetl, the upper one fliorteft ; anthers roundifti, two- 

 lobed. Pyi. Germen fuperior, oval, fmooth ; llyle capil- 

 lary, afcending, as long as the ftaraens ; lligma fimple. 

 Perk. Legume oval, half invefted by the calyx, acute, 

 flightly comprefled, fmooth, coriaceous, of one cell, not 

 burfling. Seed folitary, oval-kidneyftiaped, Without any 

 appendage. 



Elf. Ch. Calyx angular, fimple, five-toothed. Corolla 

 papilionaceous. Style capillary. Stigma fimple, acute. 

 Legume leathery, of one valve, not burfting, entirely filled 

 with a fingle feed. 



I. V.denudata. Leaflefs Rufli-Broom. Sm. in Ann. of 

 Bot. as above. Exot. Bot. v. i. 51. t. 27. Tr. of Linn. 

 Soc. v. 9. 261. Ait. n. I. (Daviefia denudata ; Venten. 

 Choix de Plantes, t. 6. Sophora juncea ; Schrad. Sert. 

 Hannov. 9. t. 3. Pultenaea juncea ; Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 

 506. Donn Cant. ed. 5. loi.) — The only known fpecies, 

 a native of New Holland and Van Diemen's ifland, faid to 

 have been introduced at Kew by fir Jofepli Banks, in 

 1789. It is a rather hardy greenhoufe (hrub, flowenng in 

 July. The JUm is branched, round and fmooth. Leaves 

 only to be feen on the lower part of feedlings, or young 

 plants, alternate, on long fmooth ftalks, ovate, entire, three- 

 ribbed, fmooth, either acute or emarginate ; at firll fome- 

 times ternate. The footftalks on the greater part of the 

 plant are leaflefs, cylindrical, fmooth, with two or three 

 minute fcaks at the point ; the lower ones fix inches, or 

 more, in length ; t!ie upper gradually fliorter. Cluflcrs 

 terminal, folitary, fimple, of many pretty yellow fioiuers, 

 the diflc of \Nhaie Jlandards is red. Each partial _/?d//{ has a 

 fmall hrafiea at the bafe. 



VIMINATIUM Legio, in Ancient Geography, a town 

 of Higher Mocfia, on the banks of the Danube, marked 

 in the Itin. Anton, on the route from Mount d'Or to Con- 

 ftantinople, between Municipium and Ideuminacum. 



VIMIOSO, in Geography, a town of Portugal, in the 

 province of Tra los Monies ; 15 miles W.N.W. of Mi- 

 randa dc Duero. N. lat. 41° 29'. E. long. 6" 14'. 



VIMMALA, ill Natural Hijlory, a name given by the 

 people of tlie Eaft Indies to a kind of pyrites, of a brafl^y 

 appearance, and of a cubic figure. 



They alfo give it in the fame place to the pyritsc in ge- 

 neral, when fmall, and of a fimple internal Ih\ii5\urc. 



VIMOUTIER, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Orne, on the Vic ; 15 miles N.E. of 

 Argentan. 



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

 Straits of Calais : s miles N. of Arras. 



VINA, 



