W U R 



W U R 



tlirce or four flowers. Tube the length of the hmb — 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope, in fandy ground, at the 

 foot of fmall hills, flowering in Augufl; or September. 

 The root is a fmall globular bulb, as in all the reft, funk 

 deep into the earth. Whole herb biit an inch high, with 

 two or three fhort, fheathing, lanceolate leases. Clujier 

 hardly rifing above the foliage, of three or four, rarely 

 more, ereft white JJoiuers, on longifli partial ftalks, not 

 feflile, or fpiked, if Thunberg's figure be correft, like the 

 other fpecies. The margins of the fegments of thejlotver 

 are purple, and there are fpots of the fame colour juft above 

 the mouth of its tube. The Jlamens are white. Thunberg. 



2. W. campanulata. Bell-flowered Wurmbea. Willd. 

 n. 2. Ait. n. 2. (W. capenfiay ; Thunb. Nov. Gen. 19. 

 t. I. f. p. Lamarck f. i. Melanthium monopetalum ; 

 Linn. Suppl. 213. Ker in Curt. Mag. t. 1 291.) — Tube 

 of the corolla bell-fliaped, the length of the hmb, which is 

 twice as long as the Itamens. Spike denfe, cyhndrical. — 

 Native of the fame country. Sent to Kew garden, by 

 Mr. MafTon, in 1788. It flowers in the green houfe in 

 May and June. The bulb is ovate. Stem fohtary, fimple, 

 leafy, from three to five inches high ; zigzag, tapering, and 

 pale, in the part which is below the furface of the ground. 

 Leaves three or four, alternate, widely fpreading, or re- 

 curved, much longer than the ftem, but not elevated above 

 it, tapering, channelled, rather glaucous, fmooth ; their 

 bafe dilated and fheathing. Spike terminal, ereft, two or 

 three inches long, of numerous, feflile, white_y?0TOcrj, whofe 

 limb is rather concave, its edges brown in our fpecimens, 

 anfwering to Thunberg's defcription, though that circum- 

 fl;ance is not exprefled in the Botanical Magazine. Stamens 

 white, fpreading, not half the length of the limb, with 

 yellow anthers. 



}. W. purpurea. Purple Wurmbea. Banks MSS. Ait. 

 n. 2. (W. capenfiS|3; Thunb. Nov. Gen. 19. Andr. 

 Repof. t. 221. W. campanulata I? ; Willd. n. 2. Me- 

 lanthium fpicatum ; Curt. Mag. t. 694. ) — Tube of the 

 corolla much fliorter than the widely fpreading limb. — 

 Native of the Cape. Sent to Kew in 1788, by Mr. Mafi"on. 

 This has the herbage of the laft, but the fpiie is rather more 

 lax, and the^owers all over of a dark violet purple, except 

 the yellow anthers, have a much fliorter tube, and longer 

 limb- 

 ic. W. longijlora. Long-flowered Wurmbea. Willd. 

 n. 3. (W. capenfis i ; Thunb. Nov. Gen. 19. t. I. f. a. 

 Lamarck f. 2. ) — Spike taller than the leaves. Tube of 

 the corolla twice the length of the limb. — Found at the 

 Cape of Good Hope, on fandy hills in various places. A 

 taller larger plant than any of the preceding ; its lea-ves 

 much broader at the bafe. Spike three or four inches long, 

 rather lax, many-flowered, with a zigzag angular Jlalk. 

 Floivers entirely white ; their tube near an inch long ; limb 

 about half that length, widely fpreading. Stamens full half 

 the length of the limb. That all thefe fpecies ftiould have 

 been confidered as varieties only, appears as ftrange as any 

 other particular in the hiftory of the prefent genus. The 

 Linnsan herbarium proves the Melanthium monopetalum of 

 the Supplementum to be not this, but the W. campanulata. 



WURMBERG, in Geography, a town of the duchy of 

 Stiria ; 6 miles N.W. of Pettau. 



WURMSEE, a lake of Bavaria; 13 miles S.W. of 

 Munich. 



WURST, a Ruffian meafure. See Werst. 



WURSUREE, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in Guzerat; 32 miles N.E. of Chitpour. 



WURTEMBERG, late a duchy and now a kingdom 

 of Germany, bounded on the north by the bifhopric of 



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Spire, the palatinate of the Rhine, the county of Hohenlohe, 

 and territories of the city of Hall in Swabia ; on the eaft 

 by the county of Limburg, the territories of the imperial 

 towns Gemund and Ulm, and county of Oettingen ; on 

 the fouth by Auftrian Swabia, the territories of Furften- 

 berg, Zwifalten, Rothweil, and the Brifgau ; and on the 

 weft by the marquifates of Baden Baden, and Baden Dur- 

 lach : about 64 miles from north to fouth, and about as 

 much from eaft to weft, comprehending about 3200 fquare 

 miles. This kingdom confills ot a great number of coun- 

 ties and lordfliips, fome of which were purchafed, fome 

 devolved to it by marriage, and others were acquired by 

 conqueft. It is beyond difpute the moft conilderable and 

 fertile part of the circle of Swabia, and may indeed be faid 

 to be, after Saxony, one of the beil countries in all Ger- 

 many. From its natural difpofition, the country confills 

 of three trafts, which are all remarkably different. Of 

 thefe, the lowell and warmeft is the north, called Unter- 

 land, reaching from Heilbronn to Stuttgard. This duchy 

 abounds fo in grain, that it exports confiderable quantities ; 

 but this grain is chiefly fpelt, rye and wheat being much 

 lefs cultivated here. Of all the other forts of grain, how- 

 ever, here is alfo a fufficiency, even for export. Flax and 

 hemp are alfo cultivated, and the former of thefe thrives 

 beft in the cold parts. The valleys, fome of which are 

 feven or eight miles in length, arc covered as it were with 

 forefts of fruit-trees, of which there is no fcarcity in the 

 other parts of this country, cyder and perry being the 

 liquors drank in common by the country people, when wine 

 happens to be dear. This duchy abounds likewifc in very 

 rich, palatable, and vi'holefome wines, called by the general 

 name of Neckar wines, though each has a particular title of 

 its own, wliich it receives from the parts where it grows. 

 The grapes alfo, which yield the beil wines, bear the ap- 

 pellation of the countries whence the fets were firft brought, 

 as the Chiavenna, ValteHne, Tyrolefe, and Hungarian. 

 The vineyards of the duchy of Wurtemberg have been 

 greatly improved by flioots from France, Italy, Greece, 

 Hungary, Cyprus, and even Schiras in Perfia. The culti- 

 vation of fdk was revived under duke Charles. The forefts 

 of this country are confiderably lefFened. The confnmp- 

 tion of oak, in particular, has been very large. The moun- 

 tains of the Black foreft on the W. and thofe of the Alt on 

 the S. and E., not only diverfify the face of the country, but 

 fupply timber, food, and wines. Moft parts of the country 

 abound in game ; near Frudenftadt, and near Konigfwart, are 

 mines offilver and copper; of filverat Konigftein,and of cop- 

 per at Guttach : near Hornberg iron is alfo found. Of mi- 

 nerals, terra figillata, which is reckoned preferable to that of 

 Malta, and a fine clay for earthenware, as alfo porcelain, which 

 is worked at Calw ; fine variegated marbles, fome of which 

 are equal to thofe of Italy ; and remarkably tranfparent 

 alabatler, ag.-ite, cryftaUine pebbles, black amber, or rather 

 obfidian, fine mill-ftones, &c. : and at Sulz there are falt- 

 works. Among the baths in Wurtemberg, the moft cele- 

 brated is that of the Wildbad. The principal rivers are, 

 the Neckar, the Enz, and the Nagold. The number of 

 inhabitants in this ftate is known to precifion, an exaft 

 inquiry being made every year by the general fuperin- 

 tendants, and reported to the annual fynod ; they are now 

 about 600,000. The ftate contains 68 cities and towns, 

 with about 1200 boroughs, market-towns, villages, and 

 hamlets. The revenue is computed at 245,000/., and the 

 military force at 6000. The eftabliflied rehgion of this 

 country is Lutheranifm, and though duke Charles Alex- 

 ander embraced the Roman, yet in the years 1729, 1732, 

 and 1733, he gave aifurances to the ftates, in formal inftru- 



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