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VINA, or Vena, in Hindoo Mythology, is the father of 

 Prithu, who is fabled to have been an incarnation of the god 

 Vifhnu. Vina is the correft mode of writing the name of 

 a mufical inftrument of the Eaft, commonly called Been ; 

 under which word we have given a defcriplion, and referred 

 to one of our plates for a reprefentation of it. 



VINAGO, in Ornithology, a name given by fome au- 

 thors to the wood-pigeon, from the colour of its bread, 

 flioulders, and wings, refembling that of red wine. Its 

 more ufual name among authors is oenos. 



VINALHAVEN, in Geography, a town of America, 

 in the diftrift of Maine and county of Hancock, contain- 

 ing 1052 inhabitants; 60 miles E.N.E. of Brunfwick. 



VINALIA, in Antiquity, a name common to two feafts 

 ■ among the ancient Romans ; the one in honour of Jupiter, 

 and the other of Venus. 



The firft was held on the 19th of Auguft ; and the 

 fecond on the ift of May. The VinaUa of the 19th of 

 Auguft were called Finalia rujiica ; and were inftituted on 

 occafion of the war of the Latins againft Mezentius ; in 

 the courfe of which war, that people vowed a libation to 

 Jupiter of all the wine in the fuccecding vintage. 



On the fame day hkewife fell the dedication of a temple 

 of Venus ; whence fome authors have fallen into a miftake, 

 that thefe Vinalia were facred to Venus. But Varro LLL.V. 

 and Feilus, in verba RuJlica, diftinguifli between the two 

 ceremonies ; and exprefsly affert the Vinalia to be a feaft of 

 Jupiter. 



VINARA, in Geography, a town of South, America, in 

 the province of Tucuman ; 56 miles N.N.W. of St. Yago 

 del Eftero. 



VINAROZ, a town of Spain, in the province of Va- 

 lencia, on the coaft of the Mediterranean ; 5 miles N. of 

 Penifcola. 



VINATA, in Hindoo Mythology, is the parent of the 

 eagle of the Indian Jove, called Garuda, or Superna. He 

 is alfo parent of the Aurora of Eaftern fable, who is called 

 Aruna, the driver of the car of Phoebus, or Surya. Under 

 SuRYA we have fpoken of Vinata as the ^a/frno/ anceftor of 

 Superna and Aruna, but it is rather an equivocal parentage, 

 as Kafyapa is fometimes faid to be their father, and Diti 

 their mother. (See Kasyapa.) The name of Vinata, or 

 Vinava, feldom occurs in Hindoo books ; though that of 

 Vinateya, as a name of Superna, marking his parentage, is 

 not very uncommon. 



VINATEYA, a name of the Hindoo mythological 

 eagle, more commonly called Superna ; which fee, and 

 Vinata. 



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

 partment of the Ifere ; 4 miles S. of St. Marcelin. 



VINAZA, in Jlncient Geography, a town of Africa Pro- 

 pria, upon the route from Tacapi to Grand Leptis, between 

 Aurus and Thalatum. Anton. Itin. 



VINCA, in Botany, originally Pervinca, whence its Eng- 

 lifh and French names. Periwinkle and Pervenche, is not fa- 

 tisfaftorily explained by any etymologift. The beft deriva- 

 tion of the word may perhaps be from vincio, to bind or 

 wrap up, becaufe its long trailing or twining branches wind 

 themfelves round, and entangle, every other plant in their 



way Linn. Gen. 115. Schreb. 163. Willd. Sp. PI. 



V.I. 1232. Mart. Mill. Did. v. 4. Sm. Fl. Brit. 269. 

 Prodr. Fl. Gric. Sibth. v. i. 164. Ait. Hort. Kew. 

 V. 2. 66. Juff. 144. Lamarck lUuftr. t. 172. Gartn. 

 t. 117. (Pervinca; Tourn. t. 45.) — Clafs and order, 

 Peniandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Contorts, Linn. /Ipo- 

 cinea, Jufl". 



Gen. Ch. Col. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, in five 



deep, ereft, acute fegments, permanent. Cor. of oi;f 

 petal, falver-lhaped. Tube longer than the calyx ; cylin- 

 drical in the lower part ; dilated and grooved with five lines 

 in the upper ; five-angled at the mouth. Limb horizontal, 

 in five deep equal fegments, attached to the top of the tube, 

 dilated outwards, obliquely lopped at the extremity, and 

 (lightly twifted. Stiim. Filaments five, inferted into the 

 tube, very (hort, inflexed and then bent backward ; an- 

 thers membranous, obtufe, ereft, incurved, bearing pollen 

 at each margin. Pi/}. Germens two, roundifti, at whofe 

 fides are two roundilh bodies ; ftyle common to both ger- 

 mens, finiple, cyUndrical, the length of the ftamens ; ftigma 

 of two parts, the lower orbicular, flat, the upper capitate, 

 concave. Peric. Follicles two, long, cylindrical, pointed, 

 ereft, each of one valve burfting lengthwife. Seeds nume- 

 rous, oblong, cylindrical, furrowed, without down or 

 wing. 



EfT. Ch. Corolla of one petal, contorted, falver-ftiaped, 

 inferior. FoUicles two, ereft. Seeds naked. 



1. V. minor. LefTer Periwinkle. Linn. Sp. PI. 304. 

 Willd. n. I. Fl. Brit. n. i. Engl. Bot. t. 917. Curt. 

 Lond. fafc. 3. t. 16. (V. pervinca minor ; Ger. Era. 894. 

 Clematis ; Camer. Epit. 694, 695. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 

 305.) — Stems procumbent. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 

 fmooth at the edges. Flowers ftalked. Calyx-teeth laH- 

 ceolate. — Found in bufhy places, groves, and about hedges, 

 in Germany, Eiigland, France, Switzerland, and various 

 parts of Greece. There can be little doubt of this being 

 the xAn/.ia1i.; of Diofcorides, as all authors have thought. 

 He fpeaks of it as a native of Egypt. Dr. Sibthorp met 

 with it in Arcadia, as well as in the countries of Elis and 

 Argohs. In England this pretty plant is feldom found 

 wild, thoU£;h in gardens and fhrubberics nothing is more 

 commonly planted, particularly the double-flowered purple, 

 and the white-flowered variegated kinds. They are all 

 perennial, flowering in May. The roo' creeps extenfively. 

 The Jlems, erc6l while in flower, become traihng, creeping 

 very far, and are round, fmooth, leafy. Leaves evergreen, 

 oppofite, ftalked, entire, fmooth, (hining, about an inch 

 long. Floivers axillary, foUtary, alternate, ftalked, ereft, 

 fcentlefs, deep blue, white in the centre. We have never 

 feen the/r«/V of this fpecies. 



2. V. major. Greater Pcriv\'inkle. Linn. Sp. PI. 304. 

 Willd. n. 2. Fl. Brit. n.2. Engl. Bot. t. 514. Curt. 

 Lond. fafc. 4. t. 19. (Pervinca vulgaris; Garidel Aix ; 

 t. 81. Clematis daphnoides major; Ger. Em. 894.) — 

 Stems nearly ereft. Leaves ovate, fringed. Flowers 



ftalked. Calyx-teeth briftle-fliaped, elongated Native 



of thickets and groves, in rather moift fituations, in Eng- 

 land, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Carniola, flowering 

 in May, being lefs rare with us than the former, and no 

 lefs commonly cultivated for ornament in extenfive (hrub- 

 beries, that will admit of its rambling mode of growth. 

 There this fpecies compofes light, convex, evergreen tufts 

 under trees and hedges. The leai-es are thrice the fize of 

 V. minor, of a lighter green, and more ovate, or fomewhat 

 heart-fliaped. Flowers larger, and rather more blue, with 

 lefs of a violet tint. Seed-veffels an inch and a half long, 

 recurved, pointed, with feldom more than two roughi(h 

 Jieds, one above the other. 



3. V. lutea. Yellow Periwinkle. Linn. Sp. PI. 304. 

 Am. Acad. v. 4. 309, not 307. Willd. n. 3. (" Apocy- 

 num fcandens, falicis folio, flore amplo piano ; Catefb. 

 Carol. V. 2. 53. t. 53.") — " Stem twining. Leaves ob- 

 long." — Native of Carolina. This has the habit of an 

 Echites. We are quite unacquainted with the plant, oor 

 did Linnaeus ever fee a fpeciraen. 



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