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ciglit ftronp furrows. Fringe of eight pairs of fpreading 

 combined leetli ; inner one of eight Umple capillary teeth. 

 Hairs of the ti«7 creft, finely joiiiti^'fl. 



U. lorquata. Spiral Curling-mofs. (Hypnum torqiia- 

 tum ; Svvartz Prodr. 142. Hedw. Sp. Mufc. 246. t. 63. 

 f. 4 — 7. Ncckera torta ; .Swartz I«d. Occ. 1800.) — Leaves 

 lanceolate ; fpiral and clofe-prefVed when dry. Capfule 

 ovate, even. Veil naked. — Found on the moffy trunks of 

 old trees in Jamaica, by Dr. Svi'arf/. ; in New Zeeland by 

 Mr. Menzies. The trailing (hoots tiu-ow up many ereft, 

 thick, fubdiviJed branches, an inch high, denfcly clothed 

 with leaves of a Ihining golden hue, turning brown with 

 age ; all fpirally twiltcd, and fomewhat undulated, pointed, 

 entire, witii a ftrong mid-rib. Fru'u-Jlalks above an inch 

 long, angular, red, (hining, rifing high above the branches, 

 and at length fpiral. Capfule ereft, ovate rather than cylin- 

 drical, brown, turgid, quite fmooth and even. Veil of a 

 brilliant golden colour ; brown at the tip ; fpht at the bafe 

 into many narrow convex fegmenta ; its furface quite naked.- 

 — Such are our fpecimens from Mr. Menzies, on whofe au- 

 thority we depend for the fynonym of Swartz. Indeed 

 Hedwig's figure, though rude, is expreffive of our plant. 

 Dr. Mohr's fig. 3. exaftly reprefents its calyptra. This is 

 faid to belong to a mofs nearly related to Anifianoiutn c'lrrho- 

 fum, Hedw. Sp. Mufc. 42. t. 5. f. i — 3. (Neckera cirrofa; 

 Sw. Ind. Occ. 1802.) which may be what we liave here 

 defcribed. 



\J. polylrhhoides. Slender Curliiig-mofi. (Neckera poly- 

 trichoidcs ; Swartz Ind. Occ. 1796. Hypnum polytri- 

 choides ; Sw. Prodr. 141. Hedw. Sp. Mufc. 244. t. 61. 

 f. 7, 8.) — Leaves ovate, pointed, concave, twifted ; two- 

 ribbed at the bafe. Capfule oblong. Veil hairy. — Ga- 

 thered by Dr. Swartz, on the branches of trees and fhrubs, 

 a.s well as on ftones, in the mountainous parts of .Jamaica. 

 The Jboots are three or four inches long, afcending, more or 

 lefs crowded, fomcwhat branched. Leaves fcattered, not 

 imbricated, fprcading, wavy, entire, except fome fine fer- 

 ratures near the point ; under a magnifier they prove finely 

 reticulated. Fruk-Jlalls rather ftiortcr than the leaves, three 

 lines only in length, lateral, red. Capfule oblong, ereft. 

 Veil clothed with ereft hairs. 



ULOTHO, or Ulotiiow, in Geography, a town of 

 Weftphalia, in the county of Ravenfberg, with a I>>itheran 

 and a Ro.man Catholic church ; near it is a medicinal fpring ; 

 6 miles S. of Minden. N. lat. 52" 5'. E. long. 8° 4;'. 



ULPHA, a term ufed by fome authors to exprefs the 

 muddy fubltance which falls off from whet-ftones, grind- 

 ftoiies, and the like, which is fometimcs ordered in medi- 

 cines among the chemical writers, and is only the commi- 

 nuted particles of the ftone, with a very fniall portion of 

 iron abraded from the things ground on them. 



ULPHILAS, in Biography, a Gothic bifliop, was a 

 native of Cappadocia, referred by Philollorgius to the year 

 326, and higlily honoured by Conftantine tiie Great, who 

 called him the Mofes of his tim«. At this period he muft, 

 therefore, have arrived at maturity of age; and as he was em- 

 ployed in the year 375 by the emperor Valcns to folicit a 

 fettlemcnt for the Goths in Thrace, after they had been 

 expelled by the Huns, and embraced Arianifin in order to 

 accomplifh his objeft, he muft have lived to a very ad- 

 vanced age. To him hiflorians afcribe the invention of the 

 Gothic charafters and the tranilation of the Bible into that 

 language. Sec Ahoenteus Codex. 



ULPIA CAST R A LEG. 30, in Jneient Geography, a 

 town of Gallia Belgica, upon the banks of the Rhine, be- 

 tween Burgmatium and Vetera. Anton. Itin. 



ULPIANUM, a town of Upper Mocfia, in Dardaiiia 



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(Ptol.), faid by Procopius to have been repaired and em- 



belliflied by .Jultinian, and called " Juftiniana fecnnda." 



Alfo, one of the principal towns of Dacia. Ptol. 



ULPIANUS, DoMiTius, in Biography, an eminent 

 lawyer, was a native of Tyre, a difcipic of Papinian, and 

 tutor, as well as friend and minifter, of the Roman em- 

 peror Alexander. Heliogabalus exiled him from the court 

 on account of his virtues, but when his pupil became em- 

 peror he was recalled, and placed at the head of fixteen 

 fenators, who formed a council of ftate. He was alfo 

 fecretary of ftate and infpeftor over the two pretorian pre- 

 fefts, whofe jealoufy of his authority produced a mutiny 

 among the foldiery, that, proved fatal to themfelves ; and 

 occafioned his advancement to the dignity of fole prefeft. 

 His wife and virtuous adminiftratjon engaged univerfal 

 efteem, until the emperor, probably at his fuggeftion, un- 

 dertook to reform the army. The foldiers mutinied, and 

 occafioned, for three days, a kind of civil war at Rome, 

 which terminated in the maffacre of Ulpian, A.D. 228, 

 notwithftanding all the attempts of the emperor and his • 

 mother Mammasa to fave him. The Heathen writers have 

 concurred in their eulogies of Ulpian, but the Chriftians 

 have reproached him, not unjuftly, as their enemy ; for, 

 obferving the emperor's favourable inclination to them, he 

 collefted all the decrees and edifts of the preceding fove- 

 reigns againft them. This hoftility is afcribed to hio pro- 

 feffional attachment to the laws. Of Ulpiaii's writings there 

 are extant twenty-nine titles of fragments, which are an- 

 nexed to fome editions of the civil law. Crevicr. Gibbon's 

 Hift. 



ULPICUM, in Botany, a name by which Columella, and 

 fome other authors, have called the allium, or garlic. 



ULRACH, a name given by fome writers to the/anguij 

 draconis, or dragon's blood. 



ULRICHEN, in Geography, a village of the Valais, in 

 the dixain of Goms ; famous in the hiftory of the country 

 for two battles fought here in 121 1 and 12 19, for the 

 eftablilhment of their freedom and independence ; 8 miles 

 N.E. of Munfter. 



ULRICHSKIRCHEN, a tou-n of Auftria ; 7 miles 

 N.E. of Korn Neuburg. 



ULRICHSTEIN, a town of Upper HelTe ; 18 miles 

 W. of Fulda. 



ULRICSHAMN, or Uliucahamn, a town of Swe- 

 den, in Weft Gothland. This town was anciently called 

 Bogefund ; the prefent name was given it in compliment to 

 queen Ulrica Eleonora in the year 1741. The inhabitants 

 carry on a confiderable trade in cattle, provifions, tobacco, 

 &c. ; 47 miles E. of Gothenburg. N. lat. 57° 48'. E. 

 long. 13° 19'. 



ULSE, a river of France, which runs into the Mofelle, 

 6 miles N. of Traarbach. 



ULSEN, a town of Germany, in the county of Bcn- 

 thi-im ; 5 miles W. of Nienhuus. 



ULSTADT, a town of the duchy of Baden, with a 

 falt-fpring ; 9 miles E.S.E. of Spire. 



ULSTER, a river of Heffe, which runs into the Werra, 

 near Vacha. 



Ulsteii, one of the provinces of Ireland, forming the 

 northern part of the kingdom ; it contains nine counties, 

 and is in general the moil improved part of Ireland. It 

 was moftly forfeited in the reign of James I. and divided 

 amongft fettlers from England and Scotland, which is 

 called the plantation of Ulfter. 



Ui.STici!, a county of New York, in the United States, 



which, with Dnlchefs, had two delegates in the firfl logif- 



lative afitnibly of the colony, which met at New York in 



X X 2 1691, 



