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ZIFIUS, in Ichthyology, a name given by Albertus to the 

 xiphias, or fword-fi(h. See Xiphias. 



ZIGADENUS.in^o/any.agenusofMichaux, Boreal.- 

 Amer. v. i. 213. Purfti 241. The name, formed of ^uyo-; 

 a yoke, and aim, dim-, a gland, evidently alluding to the pair 

 of glandular depreffions in each petal, ought therefore to 

 have been Zygadenus. We do not, however, believe that 

 this genus can be feparated from Helonias. See that 

 article. 



The fpecies are, 



H. glaberr'ma. Smooth-leaved Helonias. Ker in Curt. 

 Mag. t. 1680. (Zigadenus glaberrimus ; Michaux as 

 above; 214. t. 22. Purfh n. I. Ait. Epit. 376. ) — Leaves 

 linear, channelled, recurved. Stalk leafy. Braftcas ovate, 

 pointed as well as the petals. — In low meadows of Virginia 

 and Lower Carolina, perennial, flowering in June and July. 

 Purjh. Root bulbous. Leaves a fpan long, concave, 

 fpreading. Stalk two feet high, bearing feveral, gradually 

 diminifliing, leaves, and terminating in a panicle of feveral 

 greenilh-white jloiuers, the fize of Veratrum album, each of 

 whok petals is marked, near the bafe, with a double glan- 

 dular, apparently neftariferOus, depreflion. Stamens diftinA 

 from the petals. Seeds tunicated. We know not whether 

 they be fo in any other Helonias. 



H. elegans. Elegant Helonias. (Zigadenus elegans ; 

 Purlh n. 2.) — Leaves linear, flat, ereft. Stalk nearly 

 naked. Brafteas linear. Petals acute. — On the waters of 

 Cokahlaithkit river, near the Rocky Mountains, found by 

 governor Lewis, flowering in July. Radical leaves ereft, 

 linear, very long, fmooth, ribbed, flat. Stalk taller than 

 the foliage, about two feet in height, round, fimple, bearing 

 one or two fliort leaves. Clajler many-flowered, occa- 

 fionally branched at the bottom. BraHeas as long as the 

 partial fl;alks, membranous, ribbed. Flowers whitifh, the 

 fize of Melanth'ium vlrgintcum. Petals ovate, acute, with 

 fomething of a claw, marked at the bafe with two vermilion 

 fpots. Filaments fhorter than the corolla. Stigmas three, 

 reflexed. PurJh. 



XIGJE, in Ancient Geography, a people of Afiatic Sar- 

 matia, on the bank of the Tanais. Pliny. 



ZIGALOVKA, in Geography, a town of Ruflia, in the 

 government of Irkutfk ; 16 miles N.W. of Tutura. 



ZIGANEAH, a mountain of Algiers ; 18 miles S. of 

 Conftantina. 



ZIGANSK, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 

 Irkutfli, on the Lena ; 1472 miles E. of Tobolflc. N. lat. 

 67°. E. long. 120° 32'. 



ZIGEIRA, or Zigira, in Ancient Geography, a town of 

 Africa Propria, between the town of Thabracaand the river 

 Bagradas. Ptolemy. 



ZIGER, a word ufed by fome of the old writers to ex- 

 prefs a very fine kind of caflia, extremely aromatic to the 

 tafte, and of a purplifli -black colour. 



ZIGERE, in Ancient Geography, a town of the interior 

 of Thrace, on the borders of Lower Mocfia- 



ZIGET, in Geography, a town of Hungary, fituated 

 between the ftreams of a fmall river, which unite below the 

 town, and foon after run into the Drave. It is on every fide 

 furrounded by a morafs, and defended by moats, walls, and 

 baftions; 44 miles S.E. of Canifcha, N. lat. 46" 8'. E. 

 long. I7''j6'. — AKo, a river of Hungary, which runs into 

 the Drave, 12 miles S. of Ziget. 



ZIGIRA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 Affyria, towards the N., and at a great diftance from the 

 Tigris. Ptol. 



ZIGURELLA, in Ichthyology, the name by which 

 fome have called the julis, a Iroall but very beautiful fifli, 



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common about Genoa, and in fome degree approaching to 

 the nature of the turdus or wrafle. 



It is a fpecies of the labrus, according to Artedi, and \& 

 diftinguil'hed by the name of the palmaris labrus, with two 

 large teeth in the upper jaw. See Labrus. 



ZIGZAG Trefoil, in Agriculture^ a term fometimes 

 applied by farmers to the perennial red clover, marl grafs, 

 or wild red clover. See Clover and Tripoli um Pur- 

 pureum Perenne. 



ZIKLAG, or SicALAG, in Ancient Geography, a city 

 which Achifh, king of Gath, gave to David, while he took, 

 flielter among the Philiftines { i Sam. xxvii. 6. ), and which 

 afterwards always belonged to the kings of Judah. Jofliua 

 had allotted it to the tribe of Simeon. (Jo(h. xix. 5.) 

 Eufebius fays, that it lay in the fouthern part of Canaan. 



ZILA, in Geography, a river of Moldavia, which runs 

 into the Pruth, 30 miles S.E. of JafTy. 



ZILEH, a town of Turkifli Armenia; 30 miles S.S.W. 

 of Arzingan. 



ZILGA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Oka, 

 N. lat. 53° 4'. E. long. 101° 14'. 



ZILIS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa, in 

 Mauritania Tingitana, marked in Anton. Itin. 24 miles 

 from Tingis, between Tabernas and Ad Mercuri. This 

 was a colony eftabliflied by Auguftus, exempt from the 

 jurifdiftion of the kings of Mauritania, and dependent upon 

 Boetica in Hifpania. 



ZILKEFEL, in Geography, a town of the Arabian 

 Irak ; 18 miles S.W. of Helleh. 



ZILLEBA, a town of Arabia, in the province of 

 Yemen ; 35 miles E. of Loheia. 



ZILLER, a river of Tyrol, which runs into the Inu, 

 2 miles above Rattenburg. 

 ZILLY. See Cilly. 



ZILMISSUS, in Ancient Geography, a hill of Thrace, 

 on which was a temple dedicated to the god Sabadeus. 

 Macrobius. 



ZILTAN, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the defert 

 of Barca ; 150 miles W. of Angela. 



ZIMARA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 the Greater Armenia, at the foot of mount Capotis, in the 

 place where the Euphrates has its fource. 



ZiMARA, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in 

 the government of Sivas ; ^^ miles E. of Sivas. 



ZIMBAOA, or Zimbao, a town of Africa, in the 

 kingdom of Sofala, and capital of Mocaranga. S. lat. 

 1 6° 40'. E. long. 33° 40'. 

 ZIMBRA. See Zowamore. 



ZIMENT-Water, or CovvEH-Water, in Natural Hij- 

 tory, the name by which fome have called water found in 

 places where there are copper-mines, and lightly impregnated 

 with particles of that metal. 



The moft; famous fpring of this kind is about a mile dif- 

 tant from Newfol in Hungary, in the great copper-mine 

 called by the Germans herrn grundt. 



The water in this mine is found at different depths, and 

 is received into bafons, for the purpofe of feparating the 

 copper from it ; in fome of thefe it is much more fated 

 with this metal than in others, and will make the fuppofed 

 change of iron into that metal much fooner. The moft 

 common fpecies of iron ufed in the experiments are, horfe- 

 flioes, nails, and the hke ; and they are found very little 

 altered in fliape, after the operation, except that their fur- 

 faces are more raifed. 



The water appears greenifli in the bafon where it ftands ; 



but if a glafs of it be taken up, it looks clear as cryftal : it 



has no fmell, but a ftrong vitriolic aflringent tafte, infomuch 



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