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WED 



WEBUCH, Cape, a cape on the E. coaft of Labrador. 

 N. lat. 55° 2i'. W. long. 58^ 10'. 



WECHMAR, or Warihmar, a town of Germany, in 

 the principality of Gotha ; 4 miles S.E. of Gotha. 



WECHQUETANK, a Moravian fettlement in Penn- 

 fylvania ; 30 miles N.W. of Bethlehem. 



WECHSELBURG, a townfhip of Germany, in the 



1 lordfhip of Schonburg ; 4 miles N.N.E. of Penig. 



' WECHSTEN, a town of Germany, in the county of 



I Verdeii ; 1 2 miles S.E. of Verden. 



I WECHTE REACH, a town of Germany, in the county 



' of Ifenburg ; 7 miles S.E. of Budingen. 



j WECHTERSWINCKEL, a town of the duchy of 



( Wurzburg ; 3 miles' N.N. W. of Neuftadt am Saal. 



' WECKHOLM, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Upland ; 22 miles S.W. of Upfa!. 



1 WED EL Casaab, a river of Algiers, which runs 



I into the Mediterranean, 5 miles S. of Cape Falcon. 



Wed el Kibbeer, a river of Algiers, anciently called 

 Ampfaga, which runs into the Mediterranean, 15 miles S. 



>of Sebba Rous. N. lat. 36' 57'. E. long. 0" 28'. 



Wed el Mallah, t. e. the Salt River, a river of Algiers, 



i which runs into the Mediterranean, 10 miles S.S.E. of 



I Cape Figalo. 



: Wed el Shaler, a river of Africa, which rifes about 12 



I miles E. from the mountain of Zeckar, in the Sahara, and 



i after a north-eaft courfe about 30 miles changes its name to 



iMailah, and finally lofes itfelf in the Short. 



i WEDDER, the name of a certain ftate of (heep. See 



. Wether- Wff/i. 



WEDDRA, in Commerce. See Vedro. 

 WEDEKINSTEIN, in Geography, a town of Weft- 

 iphalia, in the principality of Minden ; 3 miles S.W. of 

 [Minden. 



i WEDEL, George Wolffgang, in Biography, an emi- 

 inent phyfician, was born in 1645, ^^ Golzan, in Lufatia, and 

 ftudied phyfic and took his doftor's degree at Jena, in 1667, 

 iwhere, after a temporary exercife of his profeflion at Gotha, 

 Ihe became medical profeflbr, in which ftation he continued 

 Iwith reputation for almoft fifty years. He combined with 

 ;his medical (Icill a confiderable acquaintance with mathematics 

 jand philology, as well as with the oriental and clafTical 

 'languages. He was an aflbciate to the Academy Naturae 

 Curioforum, and to the Royal Society of Berlin, phyfician to 

 ifeveral German fovereigns, a count palatine, and an imperial 

 icounfellor. Notvvithftanding thefe high offices and nume- 

 irous engagements, he was attentive to the poor, and affiduous 

 rin his literary labours. His pathology was derived from the 

 ifyftems of Helmont and Sylvius ; in his praftice he depended 

 imuch on abforbents, and the volatile lalts of vegetables. 

 iWedel was addifted to aftrology ; but he is chiefly cele- 

 Ibrated for his pharmaceutical knowledge, and his elegance 

 bf prefcription, fo that many of his compofitions have been 

 ladopted in difpenfatorics. Of his works, befides his aca- 

 ;demical differtations, the principal are the following ; viz. 

 j" Opiologia ;" "Pharmacia in Artis formam redafta ;" 

 I" De Medicamentorum Facultatibus cognofcendis et appli- 

 fcandis ;" " De Morbis Infanturfi ;" and " Exercitationes 

 Medico-PhilologicK." Haller. Eloy. 

 j Wedel, in Geography, a town of Holftein ; 13 miles 



JN.W. of Hamburg Alfo, a town of the New Mark of 



iBrandeiibvirg ; 1 1 miles E. of Reetz. 



I WEDELIA, in Botany, was fo called by Jacquin, in 

 Honour of Dr. Jc>hn Wolffgang Wedel, of Jena, whom he 

 belebrates as a highly merieorious botanift, and who wrote 

 \\Tentamm Botanicum, publilhed at Jena in 1747, with a 

 Isreface by his friend Hamberger. The defign of this 



work is to combine the fyftems of Rivinus and Linnsus, 

 the claffes of the latter making fubdivifions of the former. 

 We prefume that no fcheme could be Icfs natural or ufeful, 

 whatever the botanical ftill of the author might be ; of which 

 indeed we are not difpofed to think highly, as he made a 

 point of excluding the fruit from his principles of claffifica- 

 tion. He wrote a German eflay againll Haller, on the 

 fubjedl of botanical terms, of which the latter fpeaks as full 

 of taunts and reproaches. Wedel died in 1757, at the age 

 of 49. Some others of the fame name, and probably the 

 fame family, who were Profeflbrs at Jena, appear full as 

 well entitled to botanical honours ; efpecially George 

 Wolffgang Wedel, who died in 1721, aged 76, and has 

 left behind him numerous differtations on botany and the 

 materia medica — Jacq. Amer. 217. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 

 2334. JulT. 189. Gartn. v. 2. 435. (Alcina; Cavan. 

 Ic. v. I. 10. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 5. 164.) — Clafs and 

 Order, Syngenejia Polygamia-necejfaria. Nat. Ord. Csmpo- 

 fita oppofuifoliie, Linn. Corymbifera, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Common Calyx fimple, of four or five large 

 leaves. Cor. compound, radiant. Florets of the difl< per- 

 feft, numerous, funnel-fhaped, five-cleft ; thofe of the ra- 

 dius from eight to twelve, roundifh-ovate, cloven. Stam. 

 in the florets of the diflc. Filaments five, capillary ftiort ; 

 anthers united into a tube, as long as the partial corolla. 

 Pyi. in the fame florets, Germen minute, imperfeft ; fl;yle 

 thread-fhaped, the length of the anthers ; ftigma fimple or 

 divided : in thofe of the radius, Germen oblong, quadran- 

 gular ; ftyle thread-fliaped ; ftigmas two, revolute. Peric. 

 none, the calyx remaining unaltered. Seeds in the diflc im- 

 perfeft ; in the florets of the radius folitary, obovate, gib- 

 bous, crowned vrith four, five, or ten teeth. Recept. 

 chaffy, flightly convex ; the fcales ovate, concave, as long 

 as the florets. 



Efl". Ch. Receptacle chaffy. Seed-crown of from five 

 to ten teeth. Calyx fimple, of four or five leaves. 



Obf. This genus is feparated from Polymnia, (fee that 

 article, ) on account of its fimple calyx, and the prefence of 

 a crown to the feeds, which appear to us fufficient cha- 

 rafters. 



1. W. frutefcens. Shrubby Wedelia. Willd. n. i. 

 Jacq. Amer. 217. t. 130. (Polymnia Wedelia; Linn. 

 Mant. 118. Poiret in Lara. Dift. v. 5. 506.) — Stem 

 fhrubby. Leaves diftinft, ftalked, lanceolate. Seed-crown 

 of ten teeth. — Native of Carthagena, South America, in 

 bufhy woody places, flowering in July and Auguft. Stem 

 {hrubby, climbing, with round leafy branches, rough in 

 our fpecimen with minute points. Leaves acute, two or 

 three inches long, fomewhat ferrated, brifl;ly on both fides ; 

 the upper rough with callous points ; lower paler. Foot- 



Jlalks linear rough, hardly half an inch in length, combined 

 at the bafe by a narrow annular J] ipula. Flowers terminal, 

 ftalked, folitary, yellow, near an inch broad, vsnth a rough 

 calyx ; the outer fcales of their receptacle looking like a co- 

 loured inner calyx. Seeds, according to Jacquin, each with 

 a little cup-fhaped crown, having about ten teeth. 



2. W. perfoliata. Perfoliate Wedelia. Willd. n. 2. 

 (Alcina perfoliata; Cavan. Ic. v. i. 11. t. 15. Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. v. 5. 164.) — Stem herbaceous. Leaves rhomboid, 

 tapering at the bafe, perfoliate. Seed-crown of five teeth. 

 — Native of Mexico, from whence its feeds were brought 

 to Madrid, and thence difperfed through the botanic gar- 

 dens of other parts of Europe. This is an annual plant, 

 with nothing to attraft the attention of florifts. It flowers 

 late, and does not alvvavs ripen feed in England. The 



Jlem is four feet high, angular or furrowed, leafy, branched, 

 nearly fraooth, often purpbfh. Leaves three or four inches 



long, 



