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ZORAH, in Geography, a town of Africa, on the 

 coaft of Barca. N. lat. 30° 45'. E. long. 18' 30'. 



ZORAMBUS, in Jncient Geography, a river of Afia, 

 \a Carmania. Ptol. 



ZORBIG, or Little Zerbst, iu Geography, a town 

 of Saxony, in the circle of Leipfic, with a citadel; ij 

 miles S. of DefTau. N. lat. 51" 4°'- E. long. 12° 18'. 



ZORECZA, a town of Lithuania; 80 miles E.S.E. 

 of Pinik. 



ZORGE, a town of Saxony, belonging to the abbey 

 of Walkenried ; 6 miles N.E. of Walkenried. 



ZoRGE, a river of Tliuringia, which runs into the Hel-.ii, 

 5 miles W. of Nordhaufen. 



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

 the Greater Armenia, to the left of the Euphrates, and at 

 fome diftance from it. Ptol. 



ZORILLE, in Zoology, a fpecies of weafel, having the 

 back and iides marked with (hort ftripes of black and white, 

 the lalt tinged with yellow ; the tail long and bufhy, partly 

 white, and partly black ; the legs and belly black. This 

 animal inhabits Peru, and other parts of South America : 

 its peftilential vapour overcomes even the panther of Ame- 

 rica, and ilupefies that formidable enemy. Pennant. See 



ViVERRA. 



ZORITA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in New 

 Callile ; 12 miles N.W. of Huete. 



ZORLESCA, a town of Italy; 8 miles S.S.E. of 

 Lodi. 



ZORN, a river of France, which rifes near Saverne, in 

 the department of the Lower Rhine, pafTes by Brumath, 

 and enters a canal which communicates with the Rhine, 8 

 miles N. of Strafburg. 



ZORNDORF, a town of the New Mark of Branden- 

 burg, where the king of Pruflia defeated the Rullians in the 

 year 1758, near Cuftriii. 



ZORNIA, in Botany, received that name from the late 

 profelTor Gmelin of Gottingen, the compiler of a very 

 faulty edition, at leail as to the botanical department, of the 

 Syjlema Nalurie of Linnxus. He chofe this appellation for 

 one of Walter's anonymous genera, which he himfelf knew 

 nothing of. It has been adopted by Michaux and Purfh, 

 and feems intended for the commemoration of Mr. John 

 Zorn, an apothecary of Kempten, in Bavaria, who was 

 born in the year 1739, and may poffibly be dill living. He 

 has publifhed five volumes in oftavo of Icones Plantarum 

 Mediclnalium, each volume containing one hundred plates, 

 with a Latin and German text. Thefe figures are coloured 

 in the Nuremberg ftile ; at which place the work appeared, 

 between the years 1779 and 1784. There was, moreover, 

 a Dr. Bartholomew Zorn of Berlin, who pubhfhed there, in 

 1 7 14, Botanologia Medica, a thick German quarto, with 

 fix plates. He edited alfo, in 1673,' ^^^ Herbarium portatile 

 of Thomas Pancorius, and according to Driandr. Bibl. 



Banks, v. 5. 496, died in 1717, at the age of 78 



Gmel. Syft. Nat. v. 2. 1096. Michaux Boreal«-Amer. 

 V. 2. 76. Pur(h 484. Poirefin Lamarck Did. v. 8. 872. 

 (Anonymos n. 279; Walt. Carol. 181.) — Clafsand order, 

 Diadelphia Decandrla. Nat. Ord. Papilionacea, Linn. 

 Leguminofx, Jutf. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, bell-(haped, 

 two-lipped ; upper lip broad, abrupt, emarginate ; lower 

 in three deep fegments, the middle one longeft. Cor, pa- 

 pilionaceous : ftandard inverfely heart-ihaped, reflexed, re- 

 volute at the fides : wings ovate, ercft, fmaller than the 

 ftjndard : keel divided at the bafe, bluntly reftangular, the 

 length of the wings. Stam. Filaments in two fets ? anthers 

 five of them oblong, five alternate ones globofe. Pljl. Ger- 



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men ovate ; ftyle awl-(haped, horizontal ; ftigma fimple. 

 Perk. Legume of feveral, roundifh, comprefled, finglc- 

 feeded joints, hifpid with barbed prickles, not burfting. 

 Seeds folitary, kidney-fhaped. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx bell-fhaped, two-lipped ; the upper lip 

 abrupt. Standard revolute. Keel angular. Five alter- 

 nate anthers oblong ; five globofe. Legume of feveral 

 fingle-feeded, clofed, hifpid joints. 



Obf. The habit of this genus is fo peculiar, and fo unlike 

 Hedysarum, much more refembling Stylosanthes, (fee 

 thofe articles,) that we are very glad of any charatters that 

 may ferve to keep it diilinft, and we hope the above may 

 fufiice. The plants are herbaceous, with one or two pair 

 of conjugate leaves, without an odd one. Flowers fmall, in 

 axillary y5>;'iYj-, with large leafy braBeas. The fpecies have 

 not yet been well difcriminated. We fliall endeavour to ex- 

 plain them, with the help of original fpecimens. 



\.Ta. angujlifnl'ta. Narrow-leaved Zornia. (Hedyfarum 

 diphyllum a ; Linn. Sp. PL 1053. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 

 1178. Lamarck Didl. v. 6. 404, excluding the variety 

 H. n. 291 ; Linn. Zeyl. 134, excluding Sloane's fynonym, 

 and the variety /3. H. bifolium, filiquis articulatis ecliina- 

 tis ; Burm. Zeyl. 114. Onobrychis maderafpatana di- 

 phyllos minor, filiculis hirfutis ; Pluk. Phyt. t. 246. f. 6. 

 " Nelam-mari ; Rheede Hort. Malab. v. 9. 161. t. 82." 

 Raii Hift. V. 3. 404.) — Leaflets two, lanceolate, uniform. 

 Brafteas ovate, ribbed, fringed, impcrfeftly reticulated, 

 fhorter than the legume, marked with glandular dots. 

 Prickles of tlie legume rough. — Native of the Eail Indies, 

 in a faiidy foil. Root annual, tapering, warty. Stems feve- 

 ral, difFufc, from four or five inches to a foot long, round, 

 flendcr, zigzag, fmooth, leafy, with fliort alternate branches. 

 Leaves fimply conjugate, alternate ; leaflets from half an inch 

 to an inch long, eUiptic -lanceolate, entire, bluntifli, tipped 

 with a fmall point, unequal at the bafe, fmooth on both, 

 fides, not quite feflile at the extremity of the cammow foot- 

 Jlalk, which is about the length of the leaflets, cylindrical, 

 fmooth, with a longitudinal furrow above. Stipulas half- 

 arrowfliaped, ribbed, entire, pointed at each end. Flotvers 

 yellow, in axillary, folitary, ftalked, lax, hrdi&.t?L\.tAfpites, 

 longer than the leaves, each fpikc of from three to eight 

 alternate flowers. Bralleas one pair to every flower, twice 

 as long, two-ranked, converging, flat, ovate, acute, entire, 

 ftrongly fringed, three or five-ribbed, befprinkled with refin- 

 ous dots, elongated at the bafe into a (hort obhque fpur, per- 

 manent, their furface fmooth. Legume near an inch in length, 

 longer than the brafteas, of about four femi -orbicular joints, 

 finely reticulated, and befet with fpreading, brown, barbed 

 prickles, which are rough with minute reverfed hairs, but we 

 cannot perceive that the furface of the legume itfelf is 

 downy, at lead not invariably. The refinous dots fcattered 

 over the braBeas feem peculiar to this fpecies. Thofe parts 

 are full as much fringed in this as in the H. conjugatum of 

 Willdenow, though his definitions indicate otherwife. 



2. 7^. reticulata. Reticulated Zornia. (Hedyfarum di- 

 phyllum^; Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 1178. i ; Lamarck Did. 

 V. 6. 404. H. diphyllum ; Swartz Obf. 285. H. n. 10 ; 

 Browne Jam. 301, excluding the fynonyms. H. minus di- 

 phyllum, flore luteo ; Sloane Jam. v. i. 185.) — Leaflets 

 two, lanceolate ; the lower ones elliptical. Brafteas ovate, 

 as long as the legume, ftrongly reticulated and fringed, with- 

 out glandular dots. Legume and its prickles downy. — Na- 

 tive of the dry fandy parts of the favannahs of Jamaica. 

 Our fpecimens are from Browne himfelf. The roc/, though 

 faidto be annual, is fomewhat woody, ^^ri larger than the 

 laft, and moft unqueftionably fpecifically diftinft. The 

 llems are ftraight, a foot long, fcafcely branched. Leajlets an 



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