A C A 



iiig forwards over the fiiout, and two fpines on each fide of 

 the tail. See Chxtodoi^ Unicornis. 



Nasus. Grey, fpeckled with black, with a rounded 

 frontal tubercle, and two fpines on each fide of the tail. A 

 native of the Indian feas, and, according to Cepede, firft 

 defcribed by Commerfon. 



Teuthis. Blue, with the middle of the body paler, 

 and a fpine on each iide of the tail. See Teuthis Hepatus. 



Chirurgus ; Lancet Acanthurus. Orange-yellow, with 

 the body crofled on the hind part by tranfverfe brown 

 ftripes, and a fpine on each fide of the tail. See Ch«to- 

 DON Chirurgus. 



Nigricans. Blackifh, fub-argenteous beneath, with a 

 fpine on each fide of the tail. See ChvETOdon Nigricans. 



MlLiTARls. Brown, with rhombic-ovate body, and 

 ftrong fpine on each fide of the tail. Native of the 

 Indian and American feas. 



Triostegus ; Triradiated Acanthurus. Greenifh-browii, 

 with four tranfverfe dulky bands, and a fpine on each fide 

 of the taiL Native of the Indian feas. See Ch^.todon 

 Triojiegus. 



HARPuaus ; Guarded Acanthurus ; Rhombic -ovate 

 brown Acanthurus, with extremely minute fcales, and two 

 fpines on each fide of the tail. Native of the Indian 

 fea^. 



SoHAL ; Duflcy Acanthurus, with longitudinal violet 

 ftreaks, and two fpines on each fide of the tail imbedded 

 in a red depreffion. See Chstodon Sohnl. 



NIGRO-Fuscus ; Duflcy Acanthurus, with ovate body, 

 and fpine on each fide of the tail. A variety of the pre- 

 ceding. See ChjETOdon Nigro-fufcus. 



Achilles ; Brown, ovate Acanthurus, with a bai-e ovate 

 red fpot on the hind part, aculeated in the middle. 



LiNEATus ; Ovate-brown Acanthurus, with numerous 

 longitudinal white ftripes, and fpine on each fide of the tail. 

 See Ch^'etodon Lineatus. 



Umbratus ; Brown-ovate Acanthurus, with extremely 

 minute fcales, and a fpine on each fide of the tail. Native 

 of the Indian feas. 



Meleagris ; Blackifh-brown Acanthurus, thickly marked 

 with round white fpots, and fpine on each fide of the tail. 

 Native of the Indian and American feas. 



Velifer ; Broad-finned, wliitifii Acanthurus, with 

 roundifh-ovate body, marked by numerous brown tranfverfe 

 bands, and fpine on each fide of the tail. Native of the 

 American feas. Shaw's Zool. 



ACANTHUS, in Botany. In addition to the obfervations 

 of our predecefTor, we would remark, what the writer of 

 the prefent article has elfewhere hinted, [Conjiderations 

 refpcciing Cambridge, more particularly relating to its Botani- 

 cal Profejforjhip, 37,) that every mention of this plant in 

 Virgil accords with the Common Holly, Ilex Aquifnlium, fo 

 far, at leaft, as the words of the poet indicate any thing in 

 particular. The paffages in queftion are, 



haccas fcmper frondeniis acanthi. — Georg. 2. II 9. 



' autjlexi tacuiffem vimen acanthi. — lb. 4. 123. 



Jlle comam mollis jam turn tondebat acanthi. — lb. 4. 1 37. 

 Et molli circum eft anjas amplexus acantho. — Eel. 3. 45. 

 Mixtaque ridenti cnlncafia fundet acantho. — lb. 4. 20. 

 — circumtextum crocco vclamen acantho. — jEn. i. 653. 

 pi^um croceo velamen acantho, — lb. I. 7I5' 



The flexible twigs, ever-green leaves, bright or gay 

 faffron-coloured berries, (as the term croceus is ufed yith 

 confiderablc latitude by Latin writers,) the head of the 

 plant being clipped by gardeners in the early fpring, all 

 fufficiently well apply to the Holly, which is a common 

 wild, as well as garden, fiirub, throughout Italy, but of 



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which we can find no mention whatever in all Virgil's 

 writings, if thefe paffages allude to any thing elfe. They 

 are acknowledged to be inapplicable to the ot^xOa of Diof- 

 corides, which is evidently the Linncean Acanthus. They 

 are no lefs fo to the axa»9o{ of Theophraftus, which is a 

 tree bearing pods, or legumes. Thefe Greek names, fimply 

 meaning a thorny or prickly plant, are varioufly applied, 

 not only to different trees or (hrubs, but to many kinds of 

 thiftles. The Acanthus Di6fcoridis, Linn. Sp. PI. 891, a 

 fpecies adopted by Linnseus from other writers, without 

 feeing a fpecimen or figure, feems to be merely a narrow- 

 leaved, or flarved ilate of A. fpinofus ; of which A. mollis 

 may, on the other hand, be a cultivated, or more h'-uriant, 

 variety. The latter was found by Dr. Sibthorp in Sicily, 

 not in Greece ; the former, apparently the natural ftate of 

 this herb, as defcribed by Diofcorides, occurs in moift 

 ftony places, as well as about the borders of fields, in 

 the fouthern part of Greece, and the iflands of the Archi- 

 pelago, and is very common in Crete. 



ACARNA, a name adopted from the Greeks, whofe 

 axapva was, hke this, fome fort of thiftle. This name 

 is now applied in Willdenow's Sp. PI. v. 3, 1699, and 

 from thence by Mr. Alton, Hort. Kew. v. '4. 490, to 

 a genus feparated by thefe writers from the Linnacan 

 Atractylis (fee that article) ; from which it differs in the 

 want of a radius. The fpecies referred to Acarna are, 

 I. Atradylis gummifera of Linn. Sp. PI. i i6i ; 2. A. macro- 

 cephala, Desfont. Atlant. v. 2. 253 ; 3. A. macrophylla, 

 ibid. 255. t. 226 ; 4. A. cufpitofa, ibid. 254. t. 225 ; 5. A. 

 lancea, Thunb. Jap. 306 ; 6. A. ovafa, ibid. 306 ; and 

 "]. A. cancellata, Linn. Sp. PI. 1 162. — We can by no 

 means concur in this alteration. Nothing is lefs certain than 

 fuch a generic diflinftion as the above, when unfupported 

 by any natural charafter. Willdenow has alfo fep?'ated 

 from AtraRylis the purpurata and mexicana of Linnaeus, per- 

 haps with more propriety, their receptacles being nearly 

 naked, and their feed-down fimple, to fay nothing of a 

 difference in the itiufture of the radiant florets of the for- 

 mer, which rather invalidates than confirms the new-efta- 

 blifhed genus. See Onoseris. 



ACCELERANDO, 1. 11, r. refinements.. 



ACCENT, in Mujlc, col. 2, 1.7, r.feffa; 1. 33, 

 r. winds on your wings. Sec; 1. 48, for ufing r. bowing. 



ACCIACATURA, 1. 13, r. Prattico ; 1. 14, Cimbolo ; 

 1. 22, r. reprinted. 



ACCOMACH, or Accomack, 1. 3, r. contained in 

 1810 15,743; 1- 4- r. 4542. 



ACCOMMODATION, in Commerce, a term applied 

 to the acceptance of a bill, when the drawee only lends his 

 name, and the drawer engages to furnifh him with the 

 means of payment before the bill becomes due. 



ACCOMPANIMENT, col. 4, 1. 13, r.fcuopre; 1. 21, 

 r. leave for have. 



ACCOUNT Current, the perfonal account of a mer- 

 chant or trader with each of liis correfpondents or ciif- 

 tomers, a copy of which account is tranfmitted to the 

 perfon whofe name it bears, fliewing the ftate of affairs 

 between the parties at the current or prefent time when 

 made out. 



ACCURSIUS, r. Mariangelus. 



ACER, 1. 6, r. Trihilat^- Accra. Juff. 



ACER A, in Botany, the fixth natural order, of the 

 13th clafs in Juflieu's fyftem ; the 66th in his general feries. 

 See the charaaers of this clafs under the article Gerama. 

 The Accra are defined as follows. 



Calyx of one leaf. Petals definite, very rarely wanting, 

 inferted around the diflc, which is under the germen. Sta- 

 mina inferted into the middle of the fame difk, definite, but 

 H h pften 



