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Flowers large and handfotne, of a fine blue, crowded numer- 

 oufly into a denfe clufter, fupported by an upright, round, 

 firm, unbranched,leaflefs, though fomewhat fcr..jr and (lightly 

 hairy, folitary, radical Jlalk, twice or thrice the height of 

 the leaves. After flowering, the clujler becomes three or 

 four inches long, and the permanent calyces turn reddifli. 

 The capfuhs are each one-third of an inch ia length, brown, 

 abrupt, fcarcely exceeding the calyx, foon fplitting into 

 four parts at the top. The error of the fpccific name in 

 Lamarck's fynonym, P. Wulfema, for P. nudicaulis, in 

 Vahl and Willdenow, is copied by the former from the 

 latter. 



WULFRADT, in Geography, a town of the ducliy of 

 Berg ; 3 miles N.E. of Medman. 



WULFSDORP, a town of the duchy of Holflein ; 1 1 

 miles N.N.W. of Lubeck. 



WULFSFELDE, a town of the duchy of Holftein ; 

 12 miles N.W. of Lubeck. 



WULFTEN, a town of Wellphalia, in the birtiopric of 

 Ofnabruck ; 2 miles S.W. of Ofnabruck. 



WULLED, a town of Arabia, in the province of 

 Yemen ; 46 miles S.E. of Loheia. 



WULLERSDORFF, a town of Auftria ; 2 miles 

 S.E. of Gunderftorff. 



WULLI, Mountains of, mountains of Perfia, which 

 extend from the vicinity of Shatzan, acrofs to the lake of 

 Vaikind, and form one range with that on the N. of 

 Mekran, called Gehelabad by La Rochette. 



WULPERODE, a town of Weftphalia, in the prin- 

 cipality of Halberftadt ; 4 miles W. of Ofterwick. 



WULTZESHOFEN, a town of Auftria; I mile 

 S.W. of Laab. 



WULVESHEVED, or Wulvkshead. See Wolfes- 



HEAD. 



WUMBLE, in Rural Economy, the provincial name of 

 an auger. It is fometimes written wummle and wimble. 



WUMME, in Geography, a river of the duchy of Bremen, 

 w'hich runs into the Wefer, about 6 miles N.W. of Bremen. 



WUNALACHTIKOS, a tribe of Delaware Indians. 



WUNNENBERG, a town of Weftphalia, in the 

 bifhopric of Paderborn, which received its name from a 

 viftory which Charlemagne gained in the year 974 over the 

 Saxons ; 14 miles S. of Paderborn. N. lat. 51° 29'. E. 

 long. 8° 7'. 



WUNSCHELBERG, or Hradeck, a town of Silefia, 

 in the county of Glatz. Here are manufaftures of thread, 

 cloth, and variety of ftufFs ; 10 miles N.W. of Glatz. 

 N. lat. 50° 19'. E. long. 16° 15'. 



WUNSCHUECH, a town of Stiria; 8 miles S. of 

 Gratz. 



WUNSEES, a town of Germany, in the principality of 

 Bayreuth ; 13 miles W. of Bayreuth. 



WUNSIEDEL, a town of Germany, in the princi- 

 pality of Bayreuth, on the Fichtelherg ; near it are mines 

 of copper and iron, and quarries of marble ; 34 miles E. of 

 Bayreuth. N. lat. 50° 3'. E. long. 12° 3'. 



WUNSTORF, a town of Weftphalia, in the princi- 

 pality of Calenberg, the chief place of a county, which be- 

 came extinft in the year 1533 ; 10 miles W.N.W. of 

 Hanover. N. lat. 52° 27'. E. long. 9' 32'. 



WUNT, in Agriculture, a term provincially applied to 

 the mole. 



Wvnr-Iitllocl, a word fignifying a mole-hill. Sec 

 MoLB and MoLE-HUl. 



WUNTZ, in Geography, 2L\.ov/n of the county of Henne- 

 berg ; 6 miles N.W. of Meinungen. 



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WURBEN, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 

 Schweidnitz ; 4 miles N. of Schweidnitz. 



WURBENTHAL, a town of Silefia, in the princi- 

 pality of Troppau ; 13 miles W. of Jajerndorf. N. lat. 

 49° 57'. E. long. 17° 15'. 



WURFE, in Commerce, a denomination diftinguifhing a 

 certain quantity of inferior filver eoins in Germany ; thus, 

 a wurfe denotes 5 pieces of 1 7 or of 7 creutzers ; and 1 z 

 wurfe of 1 7 creutzer pieces make 1 7 florins, and 1 2 wurfe 

 of 7 creutzer pieces make 7 florins. 



WURGLAU, or GuERGALA, in Geography. See 

 Wergela. 



WURL, a river of Weftphalia, which runs into the 

 Ems, near Rietberg. 



WURLITZHAIDT, a town of Germany, in the 

 principahty of Culmbach ; 7 miles S.E. of Hof. 



WURMBEA, in Botany, is dedicated by Thunberg to 

 the honour of baron Frederick van Wurmbs, fecretary to 

 the Academy of Sciences at Batavia, whom he celebrates 

 for great (kill in Natural Hiftory, and other fcientific pur- 

 fuits, and who rendered him important fervices in his expe- 

 dition to Japan — Thunb. Nov. Gen. 18. t. i. Sehreh, 

 Gen. 239. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 265. Mart. Mill. Dift. 

 V. 4. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. 325. Poiret in Lamarck 

 Dift. V. 8. 802. Lamarck Illuftr. t. 270. (Melanthii 

 fpecies ; Juff. 47. Thunb. Prodr. 67.) — Clafs and order, 

 Hexandria Trlgynia. Nat. Ord. Coronaria, Linn. Junci, 

 Juff, 



Gen. Ch. Cal. none ; unleCs, like Thunberg, we take 

 the corolla for fuch. Cor. of one petal, tubular, perma- 

 nent : tube with fix angles, abrupt at the bafe : Umb in fix 

 deep, lanceolate, acute, equal, erefl, or fpreading fegments, 

 ufually about the length of the tube. Stam. Filaunents 

 fix, thread-lhaped, ered, inferted into the mouth of the 

 tube, and fhorter than the limb ; anthers roundifh, of two 

 lobes. Pyi. Germen fuperior, triangular, furrowed, 

 fmooth ; (lylcs three, awl-ihapcd, triangular, the length of 

 the ftamens ; ftigmas obtufe. Perk. Capfule inverted 

 with the withered corolla, oblong, with three angles and 

 three furrows, confifting of three cells, feparating from the 

 top half way down. Seeds numerous, round. 



Ed. Ch. Calyx none. Corolla in fix deep equal feg- 

 ments, with an hexagonal tube. Stamens inferted into the 

 mouth of the tube. Capfule fuperior. 



Obf. Under the genus Melanthium, (fee that article,) 

 we have exprefled a determination of reducing the prefent 

 genus to that. By a cafual overfight, however, the fpecies 

 which compofe IVurmbea were there omitted. Having 

 examined them with more attention, and particularly with 

 refpeift to Ornithoglossum, which the reader will find in 

 its proper place, our opinion has changed. The latter genus, 

 to which Melanthium indicum perhaps really belongs, has 

 moft refemblance to IVurmbea in habit, and in the general 

 afpeA of the Jloiuers ; though moft widely eftranged there- 

 from in its generic chara£ler, founded on the infertion of the 

 Jlamens. If OrnithogloJJum be retained, IVurmbea muft. No 

 difficulty attends its effential character, which is obvious 

 enough, in the pale fexangular tube, abrupt or gibbous at 

 the bafe, as if furni(hed with fix fmall fpurs. The Linnjean 

 herbarium (hews, that Linnseus himfelf had eitabliilied the 

 prefent genus, and dedicated it to his friend Sparrmann, by 

 whom his fpecimens were brought to Europe. There is a 

 fingular remark in Thunberg, of IVurmbea having, " with- 

 out all doubt," been produced from Mtlanthium cUlalum! 



i.W.pumila. Dwarf Wurmbea. Willd. n. I. (W. 

 capenfis »; Thunb. Nov, Gen. 19. t. i. f. 7.) — Clufter of 



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