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i?ate than in either of the foregoing, being lefs angular, or 

 deltoid. 



4. W. trichofptrma. Hairy-feeded Weinmannia. Cavan. 

 Ic. V. 6. 45. t. 567. Poiret n. 2. — Leaves pinnate ; leaflets 

 elliptic-oblong, ierrated, fmooth on both fides. Capfule 

 roundifh-elliptical. Seeds denfely hairy. — Gathered by 

 Louis Nee, at San Carlos, in Chili, bearing ripe capfules 

 in February. Cavanillei. By the plate above quoted, this 

 bears mod refemblance to the firft fpecies, efpecially in the 

 acute angles of the deltoid articulations of the footjlalks, 

 which in all the other fpecies are rounded. But the leaflett 

 are longer and more elliptical, ferrated rather than crenate ; 

 the capfules broadly elliptical, not obtufe, their inflexed 

 edges, if the figure be accurate, much broader, and con- 

 tinuing inflexed. The feeds are roundi(h-kidneyfliaped, 

 clothed with long, copious, projefting hairs, of which no 

 mention is made by any botanift. who has defcribed the feeds 

 of //. glabra or W. hirta, and therefore we muft prefume 

 they do not exift in thofe fpecies. We find fuch hairs, very 

 fparingly, on the globular feeds of [V. tinSorla, but the cap- 

 fules of that fpecies are abundantly difierent from the 

 prefent. 



5. W. tomentofa. Woolly Weinmannia. Linn. Suppl. 

 227. Willd. n. 3. Poiret n. 4. — Leaves pinnate ; leaflets 

 elliptical, revolute, entu-e, woolly beneath. — Gathered in 

 New Granada, by Mutis. A very diftinft and remarkable 

 fpecies. The branches are woody, round, denfely leafly, 

 rough, fomewhat warty, of a dark brown ; hoary and 

 downy when young. Leaves hardly an inch and a half long ; 

 leaflets about five pair, with an odd one, each one-third of 

 an inch in length, convex, flightly hairy, fingle-ribbed ; the 

 under fide clothed with copious, loofe, hoary, woolly hairs. 

 The joints of the common footjlalk are rather fhorter than 

 the leaflets, obovate, not angular ; their edges revolute, and 

 the under fide woolly. Stipidas large, ovate, reflexed, co- 

 loured, hairy externally, deciduous. Flowers in very denfe 

 cluflers, rather above an inch long, on thick, fliort, woolly, 

 axillary ftalks. Calyx hairy. Capfules wanting in our 

 fpecimens. 



6. W. trifoliata. Three-leaved Weinmannia. Linn. Suppl. 

 227. Thunb. Prodr. 77. Willd. n. 4. Poiret n. 5. La- 

 marck f. 2.— Leaves ternate ; leaflets obovate, crenate, 

 fmooth. — Gathered by Thunberg, at the Cape of Good 

 Hope. The whole _/Zirui is faid to be very fmooth. Leaf- 

 lets equal, about an inch long, being about two-thirds the 

 length of their commoKi footjlalk, which is fimple and naked. 

 Cluflers cylindrical, denfe, two or three inches long, on 

 axillary ftalks about half their own length. The germen in 

 Lamarck's figure is roundifli and hairy. We have feen no 

 fpecimen, nor is there any account of the capfule or feeds. 



Seft. 2. Leaves fimple. 



7. W. racemofa. Smooth-cluftered Simple-leaved Wein- 

 mannia. Linn. Suppl. 227. Willd. n. 5. Forft. Prodr. 27. 

 Poiret n. 580. — Leaves fimple, ftalked, ovate, with tooth- 

 like ferratures. Clufters axillary, folitary, nearly fmooth 



Gathered by Forfter, as well as by Menzies, in New Zea- 

 land. The branches are ftout, woody, repeatedly branched 

 in an oppofite manner, round and rough. Footjlalks Itout, 

 fmooth, half an inch long, articulated at the fummit with 

 the leaf, which is two, or two and a half, inches long, and 

 one broad, pointed, coriaceous, quite fmooth, ftrongly 

 veined, befet with blunt, inflexed, wavy teeth, or ferratures ; 

 paler beneath. Cluflers about the tops of the branches, 

 though axillary, ftalked, longer than the leaves, cylindrical, 

 continuous ; their general and partial Jlalks either flightly 

 downy, or quite fmooth. Capfules obovate, pointed, iome- 



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what downy ; the inflexed edges of their valves finally ex- 

 panded. We cannot find lifeed in any of our fpecimens. 



8. W. parv'tflora. Small-flowered Weinmannia. Forft. 

 Prodr. 29. Willd. n. 6. Poiret n. 7._« Leaves, fimple, 

 nearly feffile, ovate, pointed, with tooth-like ferratures. 

 Clufters terminal, aggregate, hairy."-_Native of Otaheite. 

 Forjler. Willdenow, who had feen a dried fpecimen, de- 

 fcribes the branches as hairy when young. Leaves on fliort 

 ftalks, oblong, fmooth on both fides. Cluflers downy, from 

 three to fix at the top of each branch, forming a fort of 

 panicle. Floiuers but a quarter the fize of the preceding. 



9. W. ovata. Ovate-Crenate Weinmannia. Cavan. Ic. 

 V. 6. 45. t. 566. Poiret n. 9 — Leaves fimple, elhptical, 

 crenate, acute at each end, on fliort ftalks. Clufters axil- 

 lary, folitary, oppofite, fomewhat downy Native of Peru, 



in a large alluvial excavation, near the town of St. Buena- 

 ventura, flowering in June and July. This is a tree eighteen 

 feet high, with furrowed, rather knotty branches, thickened 

 at the infertion of the leaves, which feem very like thofe of 

 IV. racemofa in (hape, fize, veins, and fmoothnefs, but are 

 more truly crenate, and ftand on ihoner foot/calks. Clufters 

 oppofite, at the tops of the branches, though axillary and 

 fohtary, each two or three inches long ; their partial ftalks 

 ^gg''^g^'s> ''"'1 fomewhat villous. Nothing is known of the 

 capfule or feeds. We could wifli for better materials than 

 Cavanilles affords us, for diftinguifliing this fpecies from the 

 racemofa, n. 7. 



10. W. paniculata. Panicled Weinmannia. Cavan. Ic. 

 v. 6. 44. t. 565. Poiret n. 8. — Leaves fimple, elliptic- 

 lanceolate, fliarply ferrated. Panicles axillary, compound. 

 — Gathered by Louis Nee, at the fea-fliore near Talca- 

 huano, in Chili, flowering in February. A tree about the 

 ftature of the laft, but the leaves are longer, more lanceo- 

 late, with parallel veins, and copious fliarp ferratures, 

 which give them fome refemblance to the fweet-chefnut 

 leaf. They are fmooth, and ftand on ftout downy fooljfulis. 

 The panicled injlorefcence is fingular among all the known 

 fpecies. Flowers yellowifli-red. Capfules elliptical, acute, 

 downy, beaked with the ftraight_/?y/fj, wliich are as long as 

 the valves. Seeds obovate, fmooth, on flender ftalks, pen- 

 dulous. We have a fpecimen from the late abbe Cavanilles. 



WEINSBERG, in Geography, a town of Wurtemburg j 

 a part of which is built on a round hill, on which alfo Hands 

 a ruined caftle : the other part lies in a valley. In it is a 

 fpecial fuperintendency. The valley in which it lies is famous 

 for wine ; 5 miles N.E. of Heilbronn. 



WEINSTEIG, a town of Auftria ; 8 miles N. of Korn 

 Neuburg. 



WEINZIERL, a town of Auftria ; 8 miles S.E. of 

 Ips. 



WEIPERSHOFEN, a town of the principality of 

 Anfpach ; 5 miles S.E. of Creilflieim. 



WEIPERT, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Saatz ; 14 miles W. of Coramotau. 



WEIR, one of the fmaller Orkney iflands, containing 

 about 65 inhabitants. It had formerly a church, which 13 

 now in ruins ; 2 miles S. of Roufa. 



WEIR, or Wear, in Rural Economy, a fort of dam, 

 bulwark, or ftrong ereftion, formed acrofs a brook, rivulet, 

 ftream, river, main, or other fuch water-courfe, for the 

 purpofe of diverting or turning the water, in watering 

 land. It is occafionally made in different ways, as of tim- 

 ber alone, fometimes of bricks, or ftones, and timber, and 

 of different other materials, as will be feen below, having 

 from two to eight or ten thoroughs or openings for letting 

 the water pafs through, according as the breadth of the 

 N n 2 ftream 



