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tencd, or inverfely heart-fhaped, with a long claw ; equal 

 in thofe of the difli. Stam. Filaments five, thread-fhaped, 

 at firft inflexed, and concealed in the hollows of the petals, 

 afterwards prominent; anthers roundilh. Pijl. Germen 

 ovate-oblong, more or lefs tapering ; ftyles ereft, thread- 

 fliaped, nearly equal, (landing on a cup-lhaped bale ; itig- 

 mas fimple. Peric. Fruit linear-oblong, beaked, fomewhat 

 comprelTed, crowned with the ered, permanent ftyles, and 

 their cup-like, flightly notched bafis. Seeds two, linear- 

 oblong, hifpid, ftriated, the ribs elevated, continued mto 

 the beak with intermediate furrows ; valves of the beak pa- 

 rallel to the fruit. 



EfT. Ch. General and partial involucral leaves ovate. 

 Flowers polygamous, radiant. Calyx five-toothed. Fruit 

 oblong, fomewhat compreffed, beaked ; valves of the 

 beak parallel to the fruit. 



Obf. The chief differences which have led profeffor 

 Hoffmann to feparate this genus from Scandix, (fee that 

 article,) appear to be the nearly entire leaves of the partial 

 involucrum, which are laciniated in Scandix ; the radiant 

 corolla, and, as he fays, the valves of the beak being pa- 

 rallel, not contrary to the fruit ; that is, as we prefume, 

 compreffed in a contrary direftion in one genus to what they 

 are in the other. For this we rely on the learned and ju- 

 dicious author not having materials fufficient to verify his 

 obfervation. We muff remark, that the involucral leaves in 

 IVyita, though not laciniated, have a notch or two at the 

 end, and precifely accord in texture with thofe of Scandix. 

 Many of the umbels in this genus are fimple, or occafionally 

 two or three together, refembling a compound umbel. 



1. W. aujlralis. Southern Wylia. Hoffm. n. i. t. 2. 

 f. I. (Scandix auftralis ; Linn. Sp. PI. 369. Sm. Fl. 

 Gra:c. Sibth. t. 285, unpubl. See Scandix n. 6.)— Um- 

 bels fimple, or in pairs, of few flowers. Radiant petals 

 obovate, nearly entire. Beak of the fruit almoll ftraight.— 

 Native of fields in Italy and the Levant, as well as in 

 Tauria, about Sudak, flowering in May. Root annual. 

 Herb flender. ^tem round, fometimes quite fraooth, fome- 

 times more or lefs hairy. Leaves triply pinnate, with linear 

 acute fegments, and hairy, or rather fringed footjlalks. 

 Umbels fmall and dcnfe, on long ftalks ; the lower ones op- 

 pofite to the leaves, folitary and fimple ; upper in pairs, 

 rarely three together, and even in that cafe not conftituting 

 a real compound umbel, as an examination of fpecimens 

 will readily (hew. Flowers white, moderately radiant. 

 Largeft petals fometimes (lightly emarginate. Fruits from 

 fix to ten perfefted in each umbel, their beaks nearly or 

 quite fl:raight, quadrangular, rough with (hort erefl briftles. 



2. W. radians. Radiating WyUa. Hoffm. n. 2. t. 2. 

 f. 2. (Scandix auftralis B ; Marfch. Taur.-Caucaf. v. i. 

 424. S. falcata ; Londes Journ. de la Soc. des Natural, de 

 Mofcou, for 1806, 57. t. 5.) — Umbels aggregate, from 

 two to five, many-flowered. Radiant petals elongated, 

 wavy. Beak of the fruit incurved. — Frequent in Tauria, 

 flowering in May. This is confidered by the authors who 

 have defcribed it as about equally related to the foregoing 

 and to the grandijlora. We have no other guide than a beau- 

 tiful engraving, copied by Hoffniann from the figure above 

 cited, with the addition of the magnified and diffefted fruc- 

 tification. By Shis it appears that the partial umbels are ra- 

 ther more numeroufly affembled, making more apparently 

 compound umbel: . Tht Jloivers are more confpicuoufly ra- 

 diant. Fruits more numerous in each umbel, from twelve to 

 twenty, with ftrongly incurved rough beaks. We confefs 

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the fpecific differences of profeffor Hoffmann, which we 

 fubjoinfor the fatisfaciion of our readers. 



W. aujlralis, caule petiolis umbellifque hirfutis, corollis 

 petalifque radiantibus obovatis integris. 



W. radians, cauk petiohfque pilofis, umbellis glabris, 

 corollis petalis fruftibufque radiantibus. 



The hairinefs is evidently variable, and the other charac- 

 ters, perhaps from fome typographical error, do not con- 

 trail with each other. 



3. Vi . grandijlora. Large-flowered Wylia. Hoffm. n. 3. 

 t. 2. f. 3. (Scandix grandiflora ; Linn. Sp. PI. 369 ; fee 

 Scandix n. 10. Marfch. Taur.-Caucaf. v. i. 230.) — Ge- 

 neral umbels of from three to five very hairy rays. Radiant 

 petals (lightly emarginate. — Native of fields in Tartary and 

 Georgia, flowering in May and June. Having d'fcovered 

 a fpecimen of this in our coUedlion fince the article ScAX- 

 Dix was written, we are enabled to compare it with the de- 

 fcriptions of authors, and to feleft the following particu- 

 lars : — The root is annual, tapering. Stem about a foot 

 high, round, purpH(h, flightly branched, quite fmooth in 

 our fpecimen ; Hoffmann fays clothed with long hairs. 

 Leaves much like the laft ; ih^vc footjlalks fomewhat hairy. 

 Umbels terminal ; the general ones fometimes on fliort ftalks, 

 each compofed of from three to five long, flender, coarfely 

 and abundantly hairy rays, with a leafy, fimple or divided, 

 linear leaf, in the place of a general involucrum. Partial 

 umbels of numerous fliort fmooth rays ; their involucrum of 

 feveral, moftly double-pointed, ovate, white-edged, fringed 

 leaves. Flowers remarkably radiant ; their largeft petals obo- 

 vate, not always emarginate, each furniftied with a long 

 claw. Beak of the fruit rather fcaly, as Hoffmann deli- 

 neates it, than hairy. His figures, in this and the other 

 fpecies, except radians, exhibit the parts of fruftification 

 only. 



4. W. iberica. Georgian Wylia. Hoffm. n. 4. t. 2. f. 4. 

 (Scandix iberica; Marfch. Taur.-Caucaf. v. 1. 425. S. 

 falcata ; ibid. 230, excluding the fynonym. ) — General um- 

 bels of four or five very fmooth rays. Radiant petals 

 emarginate, with an inflexed point. Stem fomewhat hairy 



at one fide Native of Georgia. Annual. Very nearly 



related to the laft in habit and fize. The Jlem is, as in that, 

 fometimes quite fmooth. The rays of both general and 

 partial umbels are faid to be always very fmooth. Radiant 

 petals of a fmaller proportion, and, as it feems to us, effen- 

 tially diftinguiflied by their fliarp inflexed points. The beak 

 of the J'rult is defcribed as marked with two hairy lines, and 

 not hairy in every direftion. We have feen no fpecimen. 



WYL,STER, in Geography. See Wilster. 



WYMERING, a parifli in the hundred of Portfdown, 

 Hampftiire, England, returned in the year 181 1 as con- 

 taining 1 2 1 houfes, and 740 inhabitants ; 4 miles W. from 

 Havant. 



WYMINGTON, or Wimmington, a parifli in the 

 hundred of WiUey, county of Bedford, England, is fituated 

 12 miles N.W. by N. from the county town, and about 3 

 miles from Higham Ferrers, Northamptonfliire. Wyming- 

 ton church, a fine ftrufture, was built by John Curteys, then 

 lord of the manor, and mayor of the ftaple at Calais, who 

 died in 1391, as appears from an infcription on his tomb. 

 The braftes of himfelf and his wife are on a flab of black 

 marble under canopies, and are well preferved. The popu- 

 lation of the parifli, in the return of 181 1, was ftated to be 

 235, the number of houfes 40. 



WYMOA Bay, a bay on the S. coaft of Atooi, one of 

 the Sandwich iflands. N. lat. 21° 57'. E. long. 200° 20'. 



WYMONDHAM, or Windham, a market-town in the 



hundred 



