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Lintz. — Alfo, a town of Switzerland, in the canton of 

 Zufr ; 4 miles W. of Zvig. 



WOLFGAST, or Wolgast, a town of Anterior 

 Pomerania, on the Pena, about three miks from the 

 Baltic, with about 3500 inhabitants. It was anciently a 

 confiderable fortrefs, and refidence of the dukes ; 30 

 miles S.E. of Stralfund. N. lat. 54° 2'. E. long. 13° 



45'- 



WOLFIA, in Botany, a genus of Schrebcr's, feems by 



its orthography intended to commemorate Dr. de Wolf, of 

 Dantzic, of whofe whimfical attempt in the NoMENCLA- 

 TUUE of plants, we have given a fiifficient account at the 

 conclufion of that article. This writer, to whom the praife 

 of labour and originality cannot be denied, and whofe index, 

 entitled Concordantia Botanlca, is truly valuable, died in 

 1784, aged 60. There have been feveral German natu- 

 ralifts and phyficians of the name of Wolf, but none emi- 

 nent in botanical lludies. — Schreb. Gen. 801. — Clafs and 

 order, Octandria Moiiogynia. Nat. Ord. Trihllatie, Linn. 

 Saphidi, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, coloured : 

 tube very (hort, fomewhat dilated at the bafe, permanent : 

 limb in five deep, linear, obtufe, moderately fpreading feg- 

 ments. Cor. none. Nedlary of eight linear, obtufe, vil- 

 lous, upright fcales, one-third the length of the calyx, and 

 inferted into it at the bafe of the hmb. Stam. Filaments 

 eight, awl-fliaped, creft, the length of the calyx, into which 

 they are inferted alternately with the fcales of the nedtary, 

 in the fame row ; anthers ovate, attached by the back, ereft, 

 direfted inwards. P'lJ}. Germen fuperior, oblong, ending in 

 a cylindrical upright ftyle, the height of the ftamens ; 

 ftigma oblong, downy, unilateral. Peru. Berry ? ovate, of 

 one cell, fomewhat fix-fided, with three keels furrounding 

 its fummit. Seeds three, nearly ovate, oblique, externally 

 gibbous, contrafted below the middle, abrupt at the bafe, 

 enclofed in a tunic. 



Obf. There appear to be feveral feeds, fome of which 

 prove abortive. 



We have tried in vain to guefs any thing more refpefting 

 this genus than its natural order, of which there can be 

 fcarcely a doubt. No author has adopted Wolfia. There 

 are, in its charafters, fome indications of Jambol'ifera, Willd. 

 Sp. PI. v. 2. 326. Cyminofma, Gsertn. t. 58, (which ought 

 to have found a place in our i8th volume ; fee Calvp- 

 TRANTHES alfo) ; and a botanift who compares Schreber's 

 defcription, literally tr^ndated above, with Jambol'ifera pe- 

 dunculala, will find feveral coincidences, which, allowing tor 

 one or two eafy mifconceptions, might almoit perfuade us 

 he had dcfcribed that plant ; but ftill there are infuperable 

 difficulties. Schreber's index direfts us, at the word 

 Pstumba, to the fame number as his IVolfia, 1749. But no 

 fuch fynonym occurs there, nor, as far as we can find, elfe- 

 where in his book. Pee tumba, Rheede Hort. Mai. v. 9. 

 \. 46, is a Jujlkia, and can have no conneftion with the pre- 

 fent plant. See other obfcure genera, thus circumftanced, 

 at the articles Meyera, Whelera, Spartina, and 

 Xystris. 



WOLF-MONETH, a name given by our S.«On ancef- 

 tors to the month of January, on account of the ravages com- 

 mitted by the wolves in that month through the fevtrity of 

 the cold. 



WOLFRAM, in Mineralogy, an ore of tungften. (See 

 Tungsten.) The colour of Wolfram is generally a 

 brownifh or greyilh-black ; it gives a reddifh-brown ilreak 

 when cut with the point of a knife, to which it yields rea- 

 dily, a property charaderiftic of this mineral. It occurs 



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botli maffive and cryftallized, and in concentric lamellar con- 

 cretions. The form of the cryftal is a flat redangular 

 prifm ; the lateral planes are generally flreaked longitu- 

 dinally. The ftruclure is lamellar, with a very diltinft 

 cleavage in one direftion, and an indiilintl cleavage at right 

 angles to the former. The luftre of the principal cleavage 

 is Iplendent or fhining, and is metallic ; that of the indif- 

 tiiidt cleavage is glillening. The crofs frafture is coarfe- 

 grained and uneven. It is brittle and frangible. The fpe- 

 cific gravity of Wolfram is from 7.1 to 7.3. Before the 

 blow-pipe it decrepitates, and melts with diiBculty into a 

 black flag. 



The conftituent parts of Wolfram, as given by Vau- 

 quelin, are, 



Tungften acid . . . fiy 



Oxyd of iron - . - 18 



Oxyd of mangauefe - - 6 



Silex - - . . . J.JO 



Wolfram moft frequently occurs in veins with tin-ftone. 

 but may be diftinguiihed from it by its greater degree of 

 foftnefs, and the reddifh ftreak which it yields to the knife. 

 It is common in many of the mines of Cornwall, and in 

 thofe of Saxony, and of Zinnweld and Schlackenwald, in 

 Bohemia. This mineral has not hitherto been applied to 

 any ufeful purpofe in the arts. It was originally mifl:aken 

 for antimony, which by the alchymills was called the wolf, 

 becaufe it appeared to deftroy the bafer metals in the pro- 

 cefs of refining gold. 



WOLFRAMITZ, in Geography, a town of Moravia, 

 in the circle of Znayin ; 20 miles N.E. of Znaym. 



WOLFRAMITZKIRCHEN, a town of Moravia, in 

 the circle of Znaym ; 7 miles N.W. of Znaym. 



WOLFSBACH, a river of Silefia, which runs into 

 the Bober, near Loewenberg. 



WOLFSBERG, a town of the duchy of Carinthia, 

 on the river Levant, with a citadel ; 10 miles N.N.W. of 

 Lavamunt. 



WOLFSDORF, a town of Pruflia, in the province of 

 Ermeland ; 18 miles W.S.W. of Heilfberg. — Alfo, a town 

 of Saxony, in the circle of Neuftadt ; 5 miles S.W. of 

 Weyda. 



WOLFSHAGEN, a town of the principality of HefTe 

 CaflTel, on the Erpe ; 15 miles W. of Caffel. N. lat. 51° 18'. 

 E. long. 9° 10'. 



WOLFSON, a fmall ifland in the gulf of Finland, 

 N. lat. 59° 22'. E. long. 24^44'. 



WOLFSPACH, a town of Auftria ; 8 miles E. of 

 Steyr. 



WOLFSTEIN, a town of France, in the department 

 of Mont Tonnerre ; 43 miles W.N.W. of Manheim. 



AVOLHAUSEN im Markt, a town of Switzerland, 

 in the canton of Lucerne ; 7 miles W.S.W. of Lucerne. 



WOLIN, or WoLYNiE, a town of Bohemia, in tbe 

 circle of Prachatitz ; 8 miles N.N.W. of Prachatitz. N. 

 lat. 49° 10'. E. long. 13° 45'. 



WoLiN, a town of Brandenburg, in the Middle Mark ; 

 10 miles S.S.W. of Brandenburg. 



WOLKART, a mountain of Carinthia ; 8 miles N.E, 

 of Milftatt. 



WOLKENMARCK. See Volkenmark. 



WOLKENSTEIN, a town of Saxony, in the circle 

 of Erzgcbirg, with a citadel, fituated on a rock, near the 

 Zfcliopa. About half a league from the touii are fome warm 

 medicinal baths; 13 miles S.S.E. of Chemnitz. N. lat. 

 50° 36'. E. long. 12° 59'. — Alfo, a town of the county 

 of Tyrol ; ? miles W. of Lientz, 



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