WES 



afcertained fevenitnore, one of whicli, it feeras, was brought 

 home by the famous old navigator Dampier, and is pre- 

 ferved in the Sherardian herbarium at Oxford, if we remem- 

 ber right. They all very much refemble each other in 

 habit, and prove the genus to be perfeftly natural, though 

 it has been confounded with Cunila by fome very eminent 

 botanifts. 



1. W. rofmar'miformts. Rofemary-leaved Weftringia. 

 Sm. in Stockh. Tranf. for 1797, 175. t. 8. f. 2. Trafts 

 282. t. 3. Brown n. I. Ait. n. i. Donn. Cant. ed. 5. 

 141. { W. rofmarinacea ; Andr. Repof. t. 214. Cunila 

 fruticofa; Willd. Sp. PI. v. i. 122. )— Leaves four in a 

 whorl, lanceolate, revolute ; fhining and nearly fmooth 

 above ; filky beneath. Calyx filky ; its teeth longer than 

 the tube. — Native of New South Wales, near Port Jack- 

 fon, from whence fpecimens and feeds were fent by Dr. John 

 White, in 1791. The Jlem is fhrubby, feveral feet high, 

 very much branched ; branches either oppolite, or four 

 together, fquare, fdky with white clofe hairs, denfely leafy. 

 Lea-ves fpreat^ing, an inch or fomewhat lefs in length, 

 acute, fingle-i hbed, entire ; dark green, and pohfhed above ; 

 white with filky hairs beneath. Footjlalks broad and very 

 fhort, filky, without Jlipulas. Flowers about the upper 

 part of the branches, fhorter than the leaves ; their corolla 

 fpreading nearly an inch, white, dotted about the mouth 

 vsrith violet fpots. Anthers violet. The calyx is filky on 

 the outfide of the tube, its fegments naked with revolute 

 margins ; they appear to us variable in length. The plant 

 is flightly bitter, not aromatic ; nor have the Jloivers any 

 fcent. 



2. W. Dampieri. Dampier's Weftringia. Br. n. 2. 

 Ait. n. 2 — " Leaves four in a whorl, linear, ftrongly revo- 

 lute ; nearly fmooth above ; hoary and opaque beneath. 

 Calyx hoary and opaque ; its teeth half the length of the 

 tube." — Gathered by Mr. Brown on the fouthern coaft of 

 New Holland. Sent to Kew in 1803, by Mr. Peter Good. 

 It flowers in the greenhoufe, from May to July. Alton. 



3. W. rlgida. Rigid Weftringia. Br. n. 3. — " Leaves 

 three in a whorl, linear-lanceolate, divaricated, (harp-pointed, 

 revolute ; fmoothilli above ; hoary beneath. Calyx hoary; 

 its teeth half the length of the tube." — Difcovered by 

 Mr. Brown, in the fouth part of New Holland. 



4. W. cinerea. Grey Weftringia. Br. n. 4. — " Leaves 

 three in a whorl, linear, fpreading, pointed, revolute, hoary 

 on both fides. Calyx hoary ; its teeth fcarcely a quarter 

 the length of the tube." — This was found by Mr. Brown, 

 in the fame country as the laft fpecies. 



5. W. angujlifolia. Narrow-leaved Weftringia. Br. 

 n. 5. — " Leaves three in a whorl, linear, fpreading, revo- 

 lute ; roughifti on the upper fide ; hoary beneath. Calyx 

 hoary ; its teeth half the length of the tube." — Found by 

 Mr.,Brown, in the ifiand of Van Diemen. 



6. W. hnglfolia. Long-leaved Weftringia. Br. n. 6. — 

 Leaves three in a whorl, linear, revolute ; rough with 

 minute points on the upper fide ; flightly hairy beneath. 



Calyx fomewhat hairy ; its teeth equal to the tube 



Gathered near Port Jackfon by Mr. Brown. We have 

 fpecimens, gathered in that country by Dr. White, which 

 Bnfwer to the fpecific charafter, except that the back of 

 their leaves, as well as the calyx, are rather hoary than, as 

 Mr. Brown fays, green, and the leaves are four, or even five, 

 in a whorl. The corolla is externally downy ; but this laft 

 charafter is, perhaps, not pecuHar to the prefent fpecies. 



7. W. glabra. Smooth Weftringia. Br. n. 7 " Leaves 



three in a whorl, linear-lanceolate, flat, fmooth on both fides, 

 as well as the calyx." — Gathered by Mr. Brown, in the 

 tropical part of New Holland. 



WET 



8. W. rubiitfolia. Madder-leaved Weftringia. Br. n. 8. 

 — " Leaves four in a whorl, elliptic -lanceolate, nearly flat, 

 very fmooth and ftiining. Calyx nearly fmooth." — Found 

 in the ifland of Van Diemen, by Mr. Brown. 



The two laft fpecies feem to differ remarkably from all 

 the foregoing, in the flatnefs and fmoothnefs of their leaves. 



WEiSTRIZ, in Geography, a river of the duchy of 

 Stiria, which runs into the Luffnitz, near Furftenfeld. 



WESTS, a town of Virginia ; 4 miles S.W. of Leef- 

 burg. 



WEST SALEM, a townfhip of Pennfylvania, in Mer- 

 cer county, with 660 inhabitants. 



WEST SOUTHWARK, a town of Pennfylvania, in 

 the county of Philadelphia, containing 6443 inhabitants. 



WEST SPRINGFIELD, a town of Maffachufetts, in 

 the county of Hampfhire, containing 3109 inhabitants. 



WEST STOCKBRIDGE, a town of Maffachufetts, 

 in the county of Berkfhire, containing 1049 inhabitants. 



WEST WHITELAND, a townfhip qf Pennfylvani*, 

 with 636 inhabitants. 



WEST WINDSOR, a town of New Jei-fey, in the 

 county of Middlefex, containing 1 7 14 inhabitants. 



WET Air. See Moisture. 



Wet Couch, a term ufed by the maltfters for one of the 

 principal articles of malt -making. 



In the making of malt, the ufual way is to foak the 

 grain in water two or three days, till it becomes plump and 

 fwelled, and the water is brown ; the water is then drained 

 away, and the barley is removed to a floor, where it is 

 thrown into a wet couch, that is, an even heap of about two 

 feet thick. 



In this heap the barley fpontaneoufly heats, and begins 

 to grow, fhooting out firft the radicle, and, if fuffered to 

 continue growing, foon after the blade ; but at the eruption 

 of the radicle, the procefs is to be (lopped (hort, by fpread- 

 ing the wet couch thin over the floor, and turning it once 

 every four or five hours for two days, laying it thicker each 

 time ; after this it is thrown into a large heap, and there 

 fuffered to grow hot of itfelf, and afterwards fpread abroad 

 again and cooled, and then thrown upon the kihi to be dried 

 crifp, without fcorching. Shaw's Leftures, p. 186. 



Wet Dock. See Dock. 



WET-Glover, a drefler of the (kins of flieep, lambs, 

 goats, &c. which are flender, thin, and gentle. 



WETA, or WiNDAU, in Geography, a river of the duchy 

 of Courland, which runs into the Baltic, a little below 

 Windau. 



WETERFELD, a town of Bavaria, on the Regen ; 21 

 miles N.E. of Ratifbon. 



WETHER-Getter, among Sheep-Farmers. See 

 Ram. 



WETiiER-Sheep, in Rural Economy, a term applied by 

 ftock-farmers to a caftrated male flieep of more than one 

 year old ; but before that time it is called a wedder- 

 lamb. The wedders of the improved breeds of flieep, 

 efpeciaUy thofe of the new Leicefter fort, are much more 

 early than the old kinds. See Sheep. 



WETHERBY, in Geography, a market -town in the 

 upper divifion of tlie wapentake of Claro, Weft Riding of 

 the county of York, England, is fituated on the river 

 Wharfe, 7 miles N.W. from Tadcafter, about the fame dif- 

 tance S.E. from Knarefborough, and 194 miles N.N.W. 

 from London. The courfe of the river forms an angle, 

 whofe fides are each about one mile in length ; at the point 

 of this angle the town is feated. It affords nothing worthy 

 of notice, but a handfome bridge croffing the Wharfe. 

 Above this bridge the river forms a beautiful cafcade, by 



falling 



