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the Englifh markets. The harbour has been lately much 

 improved by the conllruftion of a pier. A market has been 

 lately eftablifhed here. , ,, r u 



ABEREMOA, in Botany, altered by Aublet from the 

 Caribbean appellation of the fame plant, Aubl. Guian. 6io. 

 t. 24c ; fee Guatteria hereafter. 



ABERPORTH, in Geography, a little fiftmg-town of 

 CardiganOiiie, pleafantly fituated at the entrance of the 

 river \vhich flows by Blaenporth. The craft belongmg to 

 this port are chiefly employed in bringing hme-ftone from 

 Pembrokefhire and other parts, which are burnt here, to 

 fnpply the neighbourhood with manure, and for other pur- 



ABILDGARDIA, in Botany, a genus of Profeflbr 

 Vahl's, dedicated by him to the memory of the late Peter 

 Chriftopher Abildgaard, a native of Denmark, formerly 

 profeffor of the veterinary art, who contributed much 

 information to ProfefTor Rottboll on the fubjeft of Graffes. 

 Mr. Brown retains this genus, not without a hint of its too 

 near affinity to Fimbristylis ; fee that article. We truft 

 the barbarifm of the double a may be difpenfed with, and 

 we have ventured to make that alteration — Vahl Enum. 

 T. 2. 296. Brown Prodr. Nov. HoU." v. I. 229. — Clafs 

 and order, Triandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Calamari^, 

 Linn. Cyperoidex, JufT. Cyperacen, Brown. 



Gen. Ch. Cnl. a fingle fcale to each flower, ovate, 

 pointed, concave, comprelTed, forming a fpike, imperfeftly 

 two-ranked. Cor. none. Stain. Fihments three, rarely 

 but one, inferted beneath the germen, gradually elongated 

 by age, anthers linear, longer than the filaments. P'l/l. 

 Germen fuperior, acutely triangular, rather contrafted at 

 the fummit ; ftyle bulbous and pyramidal at the bafe, the 

 bulb triangular, broader than the germen, permanent, the 

 upper part brifl:le-(haped, deciduous ; ft;igmas three, (horter 

 than the ftyle. Peric. none. Seed one, fnow-white, nearly 

 pear-(haped, with three angles, contrafted at the bafe, 

 crowned at the fummit with the pointed bafe of the ftyle, 

 convex at the fides, and rough with minute dots, without 

 any furrounding briftles. Recept. thread-fhaped, gradually 

 elongated, minutely cellular, dotted with brown, the edges 

 of the cells membranous, from the permanent bafes of the 

 fcales. 



Eff. Ch. Glumes chaffy, imbricated, imperfeftly two- 

 ranked. Corolla none. Style three-cleft, with a triangular, 

 pointed, peiynanent bafe. Seed fohtary, pear-(haped, tri- 

 angular, without any briftles at its bafe. 



The Jlems of this genus are angular, flender, without 

 joints ; leafy at the bottom. Lea-ves narrow, channelled, 

 {heathing. Spikes ovate-oblong, acute, comprefled, often 

 twifted ; tlievr fcales clofely imbricated, keeled, very fmooth 

 and poliftied, white, dotted with purple, the green keel of 

 each elongated into a little point ; the two lowermoft nar- 

 rower than the reft. Vahl. Brown. 



Mr. Brown remarks, that the ftyle is certainly deciduous, 

 and the fpike, when in feed, by no means perfeftly two- 

 ranked ; circumftances which bring the prefent genus very 

 near to Fimbrijlylis. The following are the only defcribed 

 fpecies. 



I. A. monojlachya. Single-fpiked Abildgardia. Vahl 

 n. I. Br. n. .1. (Cyperus monoftachyos ; Linn. Mant. 

 180. Willd. Sp. PI. v. I. 271. Swartz Obf. 29. Rottb. 

 Gram. 18. t. 13. f. 3. Gramen cyperoides minimum, fpica 

 fimplici compafta, radice tuberofa odorata ; SJoane Jam. 

 V.' 1. I20. t. 79. f. 2.) — Spike folitary. Scales uniform, 

 • nearly all fertile. — Gathered, by Koenig, in ftiady fitua- 

 tiDDS in the Eaft Indies ; in the paftures, and fea raarAes, 



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of Jamaica and Hifpaniok, by Sloane and Swartr ; and in 

 the tropical part of New Holland, as well as at Port Jack- 

 fon, by Mr. R. Brown. The root appears to be perennial, 

 with many long fimple fibres. Herh flender, fmooth and 

 glaucous, forming tufts, about a foot high, with linear, 

 very narrow, leaves, which fomctimes break off, as Vahl 

 remarks, at a fort of joint, below the middle of each. 

 Stem fimple, flender, angular, and ftriated, taller than the 

 leaves. Spike half an inch long, two-ranked, fubtended by 

 a linear rough-edged leaf, fometimes, in the Linnsean fpeci- 

 men, exceeding its own length. The glumes, or fcales, have 

 a green keel, accompanied by two white ribs, next to 

 which is an aflemblage of purple dots, the reft being cream- 

 coloured. Two or three of the lower glumes are fmall, and 

 apparently barren. There is faid to be but one ftamen to 

 eZich flower. Sloane's fynonym feems, to us, doubtful. 



2. A. fchoenoides. Rufliy Abildgardia. Br. n. 2 



" Spike folitary, naked. Outer fcales fliorter and barrep ; 

 terminal ones narrower, with fpreading points." — Gathered 

 by Mr. Brown, in the tropical part of New Holland. We 

 have feen no fpecimen of this or the next. 



3. A. vaginata. Sheathing Abildgardia. Br. n. 3. — 

 " Spikes about three together ; the middle one felfile. 

 Scales pointed. Stem briftle-ftiaped, angular, leaflefs ; 

 flieathed at the bafe." — Found by Mr. Brown, in the tropi- 

 cal part of New Holland. 



4. A. triftachya. Three-fpiked leafy Abildgardia. Vahl 

 n. 2. (Cyperus triflorus; Linn. Mant. 180. Willd. Sp. PI. 

 v. I. 272. Schoenus cyperoides; Retz. Obf. fafc. 4.8.) 

 — Spikes about three together ; the middle one feffile. Stem 

 femi-cyhndrical ; round, bulbous, and leafy, at the bafe. — 

 Native of the Eaft Indies, in hard dry ground. Kcenif. 

 Theflems are from one to two feet high, rufliy and rigid, 

 ereft ; according to Vahl, bulbous at the bottom, and 

 wrapped with dry brown ftieaths among the foliage. The 

 leaves are fmooth, channelled, not fo tall as the tteni. 

 Spikes two, three, or four, twice the fize of the firft 

 fpecies, tumid, ovate, acute, twifted, of a dirty but 

 poliftied white ; three of them generally fpringing from one 

 ftiort leafy ftieath, the two lateral ones elevated on long, 

 flattened, ftriated, fmooth ftalks. Stamens three ; Vahl. 

 Stigmas long and downy. 



ABINGTON, in Geography, a town of MaflTachufetts, 

 in Plymouth county, containing 1704 inhabitants. — Alfo, a 

 townftiip of Pennfylvania, in Montgomery county, having 

 1236 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of Pennfylvania, in 

 Luzerne county, having 51 I inhabitants. 



ABLATIVE Absolute. Subjoin, See Lowth's 

 Grammar, p. 134. 



ABOU Hannes. Dele See Plate I. Birds. 



AbOU Hanifah. See Hanifah. 



ABOV-Rihan, in Biography, a geographer and aftrologer, 

 was born at Beroun, in the province of Khovarezm, at the 

 commencement of the i ith century, and on account of his 

 Ikill in fciences, denominated ^l Mohakabad, the very 

 fenfible philofopher. He wrote a " Treatife on Geogra- 

 phy," a "Theory of the Fixed Stars," a "Treatife on the 

 Sphere," 'and an " Introduftion to Judicial Aftrology." 

 D'Herbelot Bib. Orient. 



ABRAHAM. Line 25, infert yinte A.D. 1921. 

 Col. 2, 1. ^6, inftead of A.D., and col. 3, 1. 34, inftead of 

 A.D. infert B.C. 



ABRONIA, in Botany, JufF. Gen. 448. See Tr(- 



CRATUS. 



ABSCESS under the Cranium, infert and. 

 ABUCCO. Subjoin, See Weight. 



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