WEB 



VTz^-Cafe. See Chrysalis. 



Web, Pin and. See Pannus. 



WEBB, Phiup-Carteret, in Biography, a member of 

 the fociety of antiquaries, was born in 1 700, and admitted 

 an attorney in 1724, and diftinguiflied for his acquaintance 

 with the records of the kingdom, and with conftitutional 

 and parhamentary law. He was returned in 1754, and again 

 in 1761, as a member for the borough of Haflemere ; and 

 being attached to the then exifting adminiftration, he obtained 

 the place of fecretary of bankrupts in the court of chancery, 

 and in 1756 became one of the joint folicitors of the treafury. 

 He was employed in 1 7 63 in condufting the profecution againft 

 Mr. Wilkes, for writing a number of the North Briton ; and 

 printed on that occafion " A Colleftion of Records about 

 General Warrants," and " Obfervations on difcharging Mr. 

 Wilkes from the Tower." He died at his houfe in Buf- 

 bridge, Surrey j-in June 1770, and left a valuable library, and 

 curious colleftion of coins, medals, and relics of antiquity, 

 which were fold by auftion. He had fold 30 MSS. of the 

 rolls of parliament to the houfe of lords, and a number of 

 other MSS. were fold to lord Shelburne, and afterwards to 

 the Britilh Mufeum. Among his publications we may reckon 

 " A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Warburton, on fome palfages 

 of his Divine Legation ;" " Various Pieces relative to the 

 State of the Law in this Kingdom ;" " Account of fome 

 Particulars concerning Domefday Book ;" " A fliort Ac- 

 count of Danegeld ;" " Account of a Copper Table, dif- 

 covered near Heraclea." Mr. Webb was twice married, 

 and by his firft wife left a fon of his own name. Nichols's 

 Lit. Anecd. Gen. Biog. 



Webb Pond, in Geography, a town of the diftrift of 

 Maine, in the county of Oxford, containing 318 in- 

 habitants. 



WEBBER, John, in Biography, who accompanied 

 captain Cook in his laft voyage to the South fea, in the ca- 

 pacity of draughtfman, was a native of London, though his 

 father was a Svvifs. He was born in 1752, and was fent 

 young to Paris tor his education as an artiit. After his re- 

 turn he ftudied at the Royal Academy, of which in 1785 he 

 became a member. His talents for drawing landfcape re- 

 commended him to the lords of the admiralty, who ap- 

 pointed him to go with captain Cook on his voyage of dif- 

 covery ; and when the veflels returned in 1780, they alfo 

 commiffioned him to fuperintend the engraving of the prints 

 from his own drawings of the fcenes he had beheld. When 

 thefe were completed, he was permitted to publifh a 

 work confifting of other views which he had made, which he 

 etched and aquatinted himfelf, and publifhed on his own ac- 

 count ; and thefe produced hfrn a handfome remuneration. 

 He afterwards applied himfelf to painting, but his pidlures 

 are weak and unfubftantial, without colour or effeft, or any 

 great degree of merit, though they pleafe from their neat- 

 nefs and minutenefs. He died in 1793, aged 41. 



WEBERA, in Botany, owes its name to Schreber, who 

 dedicated this genus to the memory of George Henry 

 Weber, late profeflbr of medicine and botany at Kiel ; an 

 excellent cryptogamic botanift, mod celebrated for his Spici- 

 legium Flora Goettingenjls, pubhfhed in 1778, and one of the 

 claffical books in that department of the Icience. He died 

 in 1786, at the age of 35. Hedwig had previoufly comme- 

 morated Weber in a genus of MofTes, fome fpecies of which 

 are now referred to Bartramia, others to Bryum. ( See 

 Musci and Fringe o/"M^j-.) It is to be regretted that 

 Webera did not take place of Bartramia, the perfon after 

 whom the latter was named, however meritorious, being 

 fcarcely at all converfant with molTes. — Schreb. Gen. 794. 



WEB 



Willd. Sp. PI. V. I. 1224. Mart. Mill. Diet. v. 4. Ait- 

 Hort. Kew. V. I. 371. (Chomelia ; Linn. Gen. ed. 2. 72.^ 

 Clafs and order, Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Rubia- 

 cete, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth fuperior, of one leaf, divided 

 half way down into five ereft, acute, permanent fegments. 

 Cor. of one petal, funnel-fhaped ; tube cylindrical, longer 

 than the calyx : limb in five ovate-oblong, reflexed feg- 

 ments. Neftary a flefhy ring, furrounding the bafe of the 

 ftyle. Stam. Filaments five, very Ihort, inferted into the 

 margin of the tube ; anthers linear, incumbent, fpreading. 

 Pijl. Germen roundilh, inferior ; ftyle fimple, longer than 

 the tube of the corolla ; ftigma club-fhaped, with ten fur- 

 rows. Peric. Berry nearly globular, of two cells, crowned 

 with the permanent enlarged calyx. Seeds from two to four 

 in each cell, angular. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx fuperior, in five permanent fegments. 

 Corolla funnel-fhaped, five-cleft. Stamens in the mouth of 

 the tube. Stigma club-fhaped, with ten furrows. Berry 

 inferior, of two cells. Seeds feveral, angular. 



A genus of evergreen Eaft Indian (hrubs, with oppofite 

 branches and leaves ; and axillary or terminal, aggregate flow- 

 ers, which are occafionally augmented in the number of their 

 divifions and ftamens, from five to fix. Canthium of La- 

 marck's Dift. V. I. 602. Juff. 204. Cavan. Ic. v. 5. 21, 

 confounded by Willdenow with this genus, is certainly very 

 diftinft in its habit, peltate ftigma, folitary feeds, and four- 

 cleft flowers. 



1. W. corymbofa. Corymbofe Webera. Willd. n. i. 

 Ait. n. I. ( Rondeletia afiatica ; Linn. Sp. PI. 244. 

 Cupi ; Rheede Hort. Malab. v. 2. 37. t. 23. Raii Hift. 

 V. 2. 1494.) 



Leaves elliptic-oblong. Corymb terminal, forked, many- 

 flowered. ^ — Native of fandy ground in the Eaft Indies ; cul- 

 tivated by Miller in the ftove at Chelfea, in 1759, but it is 

 not recorded by Mr. Aiton to have flowered, nor do we recol- 

 left having ever feen the plant in any colleftion. A wild 

 fpecimen from Dr. Rottler is before us. The Jlem is 

 (hrubby, about the height of a man, with fmooth, leafy, 

 fomewhat compreffed, branches. Leaves en fliort thick 

 ftalks, entire, coriaceous, very fmooth, four inches long, 

 rather acute, with a ftout rib, and numerous reticulated 

 veins ; their upper fide fliining ; lower paler. Stipulas in- 

 tratoliaceous, triangular, fliort, pointed. Flower-Jlaiks hairy. 

 Flo-jjers three-quarters of an inch long, whitifli, agreeably 

 fragrant, turning vellowifli as they lade. Berries firm, the 

 fize of a currant, blackifh, fweetifli, but not eatable. Rheede 

 defcribes 7 or 2, feeds in each fruit. 



This plant has the appearance of an Ixora or Pavetta, as 

 we have obferved at the end of our article Rondeletia ; 

 but perhaps the Jligma, very important in this natural order, 

 may keep it diftnift. 



2. W. cymofa. Cymofe Webera. Willd. n. 2. — "Leaves 

 ovate, pointed. Cymes axillary, ftalked, many-flowered." — 

 Native of tlie Eaft Indies. " A tree, with round downy 

 branches. Leaves ftalked, ovate, obtufe with a point, en- 

 tire, very fmooth, rigid, fimply veiny ; fhining above. 

 Cymes convex. Floiuer-Jlalks downy. Corolla half the fize 

 of the former. Style much longer than the corolla. Stigma 

 capitate, cloven. Berry the fize of Juniper." — Willdenow^ 

 from a dried fpecimen. — We have not feen this fpecies. 

 The defcription of xki^Jligma does not anfwer to the gene- 

 ric cliarafter. 



WEBHAMET, in Geography, a river of the diftrift of 

 Maine, which runs into the Atlantic, near Wells. 



WEBUCH, 



