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WOODFORD, in Geography, a county of Kentucky, 

 bordering on the Ohio, with 917 1 inhabitants, of whom 

 3 1 79 are flaves. Verfailles is the chief town, containing 488 

 inhabitants, of whom 235 are flaves. — Alfo, a town of 

 Vermont, eaft of Bennington, in the county of Bennington, 

 with 254 inhabitants. 



WOODGURRY, a town of Hindooftan, in Bednore; 

 35 miles N.E. of Simogu. 



WOODIOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Coimbetore ; 

 10 miles N. of Daraporum. 



WOODRIFF, a town of Tunis; 7 miles N.W. of 

 Gabs. 



WOODRUFF, Sweet, in Agriculture, a perennial 

 plant, which is eat by different forts of live-ftock ; and the 

 aromatic flowers of which, when infufed in water, excel in 

 flavour, it is faid, the fineft teas. 



WOODS, Lake of the, in Geography, a lake of North 

 America, fo called from the multiplicity of wood growing 

 on its banks, fuch as oaks, pines, firs, &c. Its greatefl 

 length is about 70 miles, and greateft breadth forty. It 

 contains but few iflands, and thofe fmall. N. lat. 49°. W. 

 long. 90°. 



Woods, a town of South Carolina ; 32 miles W.N. W. 

 of Georgetown. 



WooDs'j Bay, a bay on the ftraits of Magellan ; 15 miles 

 W. of Cape Froward. S. lat. 53° 58'. W. long. 72=55'. 



WoODs'j IJland, a fmall ifland near the north coafl of 

 Jamaica. N. lat. 1 8° 1 2'. W. long. 76* 8'. 



WOODSAMADRUM, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Golconda ; 12 miles S. of Damapetta. 



WOODSBOROUGH, a poft-town of Maryland ; 75 

 miles N. of Wafhington. 



WOODSIA, in Botany, owes its name to Mr. R. 

 Browii, who dedicates this genus to the commemoration of 

 Mr. Jofeph Woods, F.L.S., an excellent Britifh botanift. 

 A valuable paper on the Rofes of this country, about to 

 appear in the Tranfaftions of the Linnaean Society, will 

 abundantly prove Mr. Woods' claims to fucti a diftinftion, 

 even were it far lefs indifcriminately beftowed than ufual. — 

 Brown Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 11. 170. Sm. Compend. 



Fl. Brit. ed. 2. 152. Purfh 660 Clafs and order, Cryp- 



togamia Filices. Nat. Ord. Filices dor/ales. 



Gen. Ch. FruBtfication in roundifh groups, on the back 

 of the leaf. Involucrum cup-like, open, fmall, nearly flat, 

 jagged, fringed with awl-fhaped, incurved, jointed hairs. 

 Capfules feveral, obovate, on fhort ftalks, crowded, in the 

 centre of the involucrum, each bound by a vertical, jointed, 

 elaftic ring, and burfting irregularly at one fide. Seeds nu- 

 merous, kidney -fhaped, granulated, extremely minute. 



Eff. Ch. Groups of capfules fcattered, roundifh, each 

 feated on a capillary -fringed involucrum. 



Obf. We gladly here adopt the ierm group, as technically 

 fynonymous with Souus, { fee that article, ) inftead of dot, 

 fpot, or line, which are liable to much exception. 



1. W. ilvenfts. Long-leaved Woodfia. Br. n. i. Purfh 

 n. 2. (Acroftichum ilvenfe ; Linn. Sp. 1528. Fl. Dan. 

 t. 391. Polypodium ilvenfe ; Swartz Syn. Fil. 39. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. V. 5. 198. " Schkuhr Crypt. 16. t. 19." Nc- 

 phrodium lanofum ; Michaux Boreal. -Amer. v. 2. 270. 

 Lonchitis afpera ilvenfis ; Dalech. Hift. 1221. f. 3.) — 

 Frond pinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid, with 

 numerous, nearly uniform, oblong lobes. This appears to 

 have been firft difcovered in the Mediterranean ide of Ilva, 

 whence the fpecific name, which is very exceptionable, the 

 fame fpecies being found on rocks in the north of Europe, 

 as well as in Nortli America, from Canada to Virginia. 

 We have American fpecimens from Mr. Francis Boott, 



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agreeing exaftly with Siberian ones in the Linnaean herba- 

 rium. We know not of this fpecies having been detected 

 in Britain. The fronds, five or fix inches high, growereft, 

 in denfe tufts. Their flalks, not quite half th»t height, are 

 brown, bearing, like the mid-rib of each principal leaflet, 

 many flrap-fhaped, taper-pointed, membranous fcales. The 

 frond itfelf is oblong, or lanceolate, compofed of twelve or 

 more pairs of oblong lanceolate leaflets, or pinna, oppofite 

 or alternate, each about an inch long, numeroufly pinnatifid ; 

 their lower fegments wavy, nearly equal and uniform ; 

 upper confluent : their upper furface is even, nearly fmooth, 

 of a fine green ; lower covered with pale brown fcales, and 

 crowded hairy groups of capfules. 



2. W. hyperlorea. Round-leaved Woodfia. Brown 

 n. 2. t. II. Purfh n. i. Sm. Compend. 158. (Acrof- 

 tichum hyperboreum ; Liljebladin Stockh. Tranf. for 1793. 

 201. t. 8. A. alpinum ; Bolt. Fil. Brit. 76. t. 42. Poly- 

 podium hyperboreum ; Swartz Syn. Fil. 39. Willd. Sp. 

 PI. v. 5. 195. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 2023. P. arvonicum ; 

 Fl. Brit. II 15. P. ilvenfe ; With. 774. Filicula pumila, 

 Lonchitidis Marautae fpecies Cambrobritannica ; Pluk. 

 Phyt. t. 89. f. 5. ) — Frond pinnate ; leaflets heart-fhaped, 

 rounded, pinnatifid, lobes rounded, waved, unequal. — Na- 

 tive of alpine rocks, chiefly in the northern parts of Eu- 

 rope. It occurs, though rarely, on the higheft fummits of 

 the Welfh and Scottifh mountains. A fmaller plant than 

 the preceding, often not above an inch high, though gene- 

 rally about three inches. The leaflets are fhorter, and more 

 rounded, as well as their lobes ; of a thinner texture ; much 

 lefs deeply pinnatifid, except at their bafe, where the bot- 

 tom pair of lobes are often fo deeply feparated, as to form 

 two little leaflets, wavy, or obfcurely lobed, and fometimes 

 of unequal fize. The main flalk is fcaly ; leaflets hairy on 

 both fides. 



We readily agree with Mr. Brown, that fome intermediate 

 varieties of each fpecies render the fpecific charafters of both 

 confiderably difficult. Yet there feems no reafon to doubt 

 their being diftinft plants. Mr. Bauer's delineation of this 

 fern, in the Linnaean Tranfaftions, excellently engraved by 

 Warner, is one of the fineft illuftrations of a natural pro- 

 duftion that can any where be feen. 



WOODSTOCK, (New,) in Geography, a borough and 

 market-town in the hundred of Wootton, and county of 

 Oxford, England, is fituated 8 miles N.N.W. from Oxford, 

 and 625 W.N.W. from London. It has a market on 

 Tuefday, and fairs on the 5th of April, Tuefday in Whit- 

 fun-week, 2d of Auguft, 2d of Oftober, Tuefday after the 

 I ft of November, and 17th of December. The town fends 

 two reprefentatives to parhament, the mayor being the 

 returning officer. The corporation confifts of a mayor, a 

 high-fteward, a recorder, town-clerk, four aldermen, and 

 fixteen common-council men. In 181 1, the houfes in 

 Woodftock were 235, and the inhabitants 1540. The 

 fouth part of the prefent church is a fragment of an ancient 

 chapel ; but the northern face and the tower were erefted 

 in 1785. Adjoining to the church is a grammar-fchool, 

 founded in 1585 by Mr. Cornwell, a native of the place ; 

 and near the fouthern entrance of the town is a range of 

 alms-houfes, erefted in 1 793 by the duchefs of Marlborough, 

 for fix poor widows. The town-hall, a ftone building, has 

 under it the market-place, and was erefted in 1766, from a 

 defign of fir WiUiam Chambers, at the expence of the late 

 duke of Marlborough. The principal manufaftures of the 

 town are thofe of gloves and of polifhed fteel. Various 

 articles of this fteel have been executed with great delicacy, 

 and fold at high prices. This manufafture was introduced 

 into Woodftock at the beginning of the laft century ; but 



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