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W A C 



feet. The trees, however, fublide again with the foil, but 

 on the water's ebbing fuddenly, frequently fall down ; 12 

 miles N. of Bremen. 



WAAG, or Vag, a river of Hungary, which rifes in 

 the N. part, and runs into the Danube, 6 miles below 

 Comorn. 



WAAL. See Wahal. 



WAALIA, in Ornithology, a pigeon, fo called by Bruce, 

 which frequents the low parts of Abyflinia, perching upon 

 the higheft. trees, and fitting quietly in the fliade during the 

 heat of the day. Thefe birds fly to a great height, in large 

 flocks, and feem to feleft a fpecies of the beech-tree for 

 their cuftomary abode, on the mail or fruit of which they 

 chiefly depend for their food. They are rarely feen in the 

 high country, which is fuppofed to be too cold for them. 

 They are very fat, and the bell, without exception, of all 

 pigeons. The Abyflinians, however, do not eat this bird ; 

 and dread being defiled by touching it, when it is dead. 

 The waalia is lefs than the common blue pigeon, but larger 

 than the turtle-dove. Its whole back, and fome of the 

 ftiort feathers of its wings, are of a beautiful unvarnifhed 

 green, more light and lively than an olive : its head and 

 neck are of a duller green, with lefs luftre ; its beak is of a 

 blueifli-white, with large nollrils ; the eye black, with an 

 iris of dark orange ; the pinion, or top of its wing, is a 

 beautiful pompadour ; the large feathers of the wing are 

 black ; the outer edge of the wing narrowly marked with 

 white ; the tail a pale dirty blue ; below the tail it is fpotted 

 with brown ajid white ; its thighs are white, with fmall fpots 

 of brown ; its belly a lively yellow ; its legs and feet are a 

 yellowifh-brown ; its feet ftronger and larger than thofe of 

 birds of this kind. Bruce's Travels, Appendix. 



WAALWYK, in Geography, a town of Brabant ; lo 

 miles W. of Bois le Due. 



WAAREN. SeeWAHREN'. 



WABASH, a beautiful river of America, with high 

 and fertile banks, which waters the Indiana territory, and 

 difcharges itfelf into the Oliio, about N. lat. 37° 33'. W. 

 long. 80° 30', by a mouth 270 yards, 1020 miles below Fort 

 Pitt. In the fpriiig, fumnier, and autumn, it is paffable 

 with batteaux, drawing three feet water, 412 miles to Oui- 

 atanou, a fmall French fettlcment 011 the W. fide of the 

 river, and for large canoes 197 miles farther, to the Miami 

 carrying place or portage, 9 miles from Miami village. The 

 communication between Detroit and the Illinois and Ohio 

 countries is up Miami river to Miami village, thence by land 

 9 miles, when the rivers are high, and from 18 to 20 when 

 they are low, through a level country to the Wabafh, and 

 by the various branches of the Wabafh to the refpedtive 

 places of deftination. A filver mine has been lately difco- 

 vered about 28 miles above Oiiiatanou, on the N. fide of 

 the W.ibafh ; falt-fprings, hme, fand-llone, blue, yellow, and 

 wliite clay, are found plentifully on this river. 



Wabasii, Utile, a river of America, which runs into 

 the Wabalb, N. lat. 37= 40'. W. long. 88^ 35'. 



Wabash, a townfhip of Indiana, in Knox county. 



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

 ftralts of Calais ; 7 miles S.W. of Montreuil. 



WABUSKAGAMA, a river of Canada, which runs 

 into the Saguenay, N. lat. 48° 2o'. W. long. 70° 18'. 



WACHBRUN, a town of the county of Hennebcrg ; 

 9 miles S.E. of Meinungcn. 



W.ACHEIN, a river of Carniola, which rifes in ihe lake 

 of Wajhciner, and runs into the river Save, near Rctmanf' 

 dorf. 



WACHEINER, a lake of Carniola; 10 miles W. of 

 Feldes. 



WACHENBUCHEN, a town of Germany, in tiie 

 county of Hanau Munzenberg ; i mile N.W. of Hanau. 



WACHENDORFIA, in Botany, was fo named by 

 Burmann, in honour of his countryman Everard James ran 

 WachendorfF, profedor of phyfic, as well as of botany, at 

 Utrecht, who died in 1758, aged fifty-fix. He publiftied, 

 in 1743, 3" oration on the infinite wifdom of God, as dif- 

 played in the Vegetable Creation ; and in 1747, Horti Ul- 

 Ircijeaini Index, an 8vo. of 394 pages. — Linn. Gen. 27. 

 Sclireb. 38. Willd. Sp. PI. V. I. 248. Mart. Mill. Dia. 

 V. 4. Vahl Enum. v. 2. 163. Burm. Monogr. Amlt. 1757. 

 Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 1. 106. Ker in Sims and Kon. Ann. 

 of Bot. v. I. 234. JulT. 59. Lamarck lUuftr. t. 34. 

 Gairtn. t. 15. — Clafs and order, Trlandria Monogynia. Nat. 

 Ord. Enjatx, Linn, hides, Juif. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. none. Cor. inferior, permanent, wither- 

 ing, irregular, of fix obovate-oblong petals ; three upper 

 ones moft ereft, of which the two lateral ones have each a 

 fpur at their bafe ; three lowermoll widely fpreading. Nec- 

 tary in the fpur of each lateral petal, accompanied by a 

 briftle. Stam. Filaments three, thread- fhapcd, divarirated, 

 declining, curved upward, fhorter than the corolla ; anthers 

 oblong, incumbent. Pijl. Germen fuperior, roundifh, with 

 three furrows ; llyle tliread-fliaped, declining; llignia firaple, 

 tubular. Peru. Capfule three-lobed, triangular, obtufe, of 

 three comprefled cells, and three valves, enveloped in the 

 faded corolla ; partitions from the centre of each valve. 

 Seeds folitary, rough or hairy, comprefled. 



Eff. Ch. Corolla inferior, irregular, of fix petals ; two 

 of them fpurred at the bafe. Capfule of three cells. Seeds 

 folitary, rough. 



1. W. thyrjlflora. Tall-flowering Wachendorfia. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 59. Willd. n. I. Vahl n. i. Ait. n. i. Thunb. 

 Prodr. 12. Burm. Monogr. 2. t. I. f. 2. Curt. Mag. 

 t. 1060. Redout. Lihac. t. 93. — Leaves perennial, fmooth. 

 Panicle oblong, clofe. — Native of the Cape of Good Hope; 

 thriving in our green-houfes with little care, and indeed al- 

 moll hardy, flowering in May and .June. The root is peren- 

 nial, flefliy, fafTron-coloured or red, with long fimple fibres. 

 Stem folitary, fimple, ereft, leafy, round, or a little com- 

 prefled, downy, flightly zigzag, about a yard high. Leaves 

 numerous, two-ranked, plaited, many-ribbed, tapering at 

 each end, flieathing, permanent. Panicle racemofe, ereft, 

 a fpau or more in length, compound, downy, compofed of 

 numerous large and handfome, but inodorous and (hort- 

 lived Jlowtrs, of a fine golden yellow ; externally downy, 

 with an orange or tawny hue. The lobes of the ciipfule are 

 much comprefled, and fliarp-cdged. Seeds clothed with 

 (haggy chafl^y pubcfccnce. 



2. W. paniculata. Spreading Paniclcd Wachendorfia. 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 59. Willd. n. 2. Vahl n. 2. Ait. n. 2. 

 Thunb. Prodr. 12. Burm. Monogr. 4. t. i. f. 1. Sm. Ic. 

 PiA. t. 5. Curt. Mag. t. 616. (Afphodelus latifohus, 

 floribus patulis flavefcentibus, rubicundis intils maculis no- 

 tatis ; Breyn. Prodr. 3. 22. t. 9. f. 1.) — Loaves annual, 

 fmooth. Panicle fpreading. — Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, ill fandy ground. It feems from Plukcnct's Mant. 

 70, where it is called Red-bulb, to have been cultivated by 

 Dr. Uvedale. (See UvEDALiA.) This fpecies however 18 

 more tender than the preceding, and rarely flowers in the 

 Englilh collcftions. The knobs of the root are browner, 

 oblong, and nearly vertical. Stem but a foot high. L.eava 

 fewer, entirely deciduous. I'loiuers larger and liandfonicr 

 of a deeper orange at the outfide ; their three upper petals 



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