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\s alfo found in Germany, and doubtlefs in other mountainous 

 parts of Europe. Like both the foregoing, it bears cap- 

 fules in the fpring and fummer. The prefence of a ftrong 

 rib in tlie ka-ves clearly diftinguifhes it from thofe fpecies, 

 though the paler, blunt, and more oblong, fcales of the 

 Jheath have no rib. The Jlems, generally almoft fimple, are 

 occafionally much branched, as in Engl. Bot. 



4. A. nmalu. Tall Slender Andrsea. Hook. Tr. of 

 Linn. Soc. v. 10. 395. t. 31. f. 4. Mufc. Brit. n. 4. t.8. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 2334. (not 2507.) — Stems branched. Leaves 

 loofely imbricated, lanceolate, fmgle-ribbed, curved towards 

 one fide. Scales of the (heath fimilar — Gathered by Mr. 

 Hooker and Mr. Borrer, on rocks upon the higheft fummit 

 of the Scottifh mountain Ben Nevis, at the eaftern end. It 

 is like all the reft, perennial, bearing capfules in fummer. 



This is by far the talleft Andraa known, being three inches 

 high, or more, forming rather lax olive-brown tufts, tinged 

 with a chocolate-colour, of which laft hue are the capfules, 

 whofe fubftance is ftrongly reticulated. The fcales of the 

 Jheath being of the fame lanceolate figure, furnifhed with a 

 mid-rib, as the leaves, clearly defines the fpecies. Mr. 

 Hooker has oblerved this mofs on the granite rocks of the 

 moft elevated of the Swifs alps, retaining all the charafters 

 of the Scottifh fpecimens. 



ANDREW, Knights of, &c. 1. 12, /•. Favin ; col. 2, 

 k 28, r. commiflioner ; 1. 29, r. little for htter. 

 ANDROMACHA, 1. i, r. Zygsena. 

 ANDRONICUS II., PALyEOLOGUs,in Biography, {on oi 

 Michael Palasologus, fucceeded to the Greek empire in 1283. 

 He is charaflerized as learned and virtuous, but feeble in his 

 conduift, and abjeftly fuperftitious. His old age was em- 

 bittered by blindnefs and negleft ; and having affumed the 

 name of Father Antony, he clofed his unquiet life four years 

 after his abdication, A.D. 1332, aged 74. 



Andronicus III., Paleeologus, the younger, was the fon 

 of Michael, eldefl fon and colleague of the elder Andro- 

 nicus. With his grandfather he was a favourite, on account 

 of his wit and beauty ; and he was thus led into habits of 

 intemperance and debauchery, which involved him in diffi- 

 culties and difgrace. Having compelled his grandfather to 

 abdicate in 1328, he reigned alone, and contended againft 

 the Bulgarians and Turks, with the latter of whom he figned 

 an ignominious treaty, relinquilhing to them all the places 

 which they had taken in Afia. At length, exhaufted by his 

 vices, he died in his 45th year, A.D. 1341. Gibbon. 

 ANDROPHYLAX, in Botany. See Wesblandia. 

 ANEILEMA, from »., •without, and !i\»fia, an in-vo- 

 lucrum, this genus being feparated by Mr. Brown, Prodr. 

 Nnv. Holl. v. I. 270, from CoMMELiNA, (fee that arti- 

 cle,) on account of the want of the large folded m-vo- 

 lucrum, or rather hraBea, which in Ccmmelir.a contains a 

 confiderable ntimber of flowers ; whereas in jineilema the 

 inflorefcence is fcattered, fomewhat panicled. The differ- 

 ence between the two refides therefore in this part of the 

 plant, and not ftriftly in the fruftification. 



The known fpecies of Commelina referred by Mr. Brown 

 to /ineilema are, -vaginata, nudijlora, zndffiirata of Linnseus, 

 medica of Loureiro, Vahl Enum. v. 2. 175. n. 28; and 

 gigantea of Vahl, n. 34, found by Mr. Brown, in the tropical 

 part of New Holland. To thefe the author adds nine new 

 fptcies, found by himfelf, either in New South Wales, or 

 the warmer parts of New Holland, one of them only being 

 defcribed from the coUeftion made in the latter country by 

 fir Jofeph Banks, Some have fmoajh filaments, others 

 bearded ones. It is fufpefted that PoUia of Thur.berg may 

 not be generically diftinft from thefe ; but the fruit in our 

 fpecimen is evidently a ierry, accofding to Thunberg's de- 



fcription, and remarkable, even after having been dried more 

 than thirty years, for its bright blue colour. ( See Pollia. ) 

 The habit and inflorefcence are indeed, as Mr. Brown ob- 

 ferves, fimilar to his Aneilema. Whether Car-tonema of this 

 author be diftinft, we do not prefume to judge, having feen 

 no fpecimen. In the regularity of its Jlo<wers, and the 

 equality of \}\t\r Jlamens, it differs from Commelina and Anei- 

 lema, and agrees with Tradefcantia, but differs from the latter 

 in feveral particulars pointed out by Mr. Brown, befides its 

 fpiked inflorefcence. 



ANEMIA, a genus of ferns, feparated from Os- 

 munda, (fee that article,) by Dr. Swartz, and thus named 

 from avEtaair, naked, or not covered ; becaufe its capfules are 

 deftitute of all covering or involucrum whatever. — Swartz 

 Syn. Fil. 155. Willd. Sp. Pl. V. 5. 89. Ait. Hort. Kew. 

 v. 5. 498. — Clafs and order, Cryptogamia Filices. Nat. Ord. 

 Filices, feft. 2, fpurie gyrata. 



EfT. Ch. Capfules fomewhat turbinate, concentricaUy 

 ftriated at the top, burfting laterally, feflile on one fide of a 

 compound Imear receptacle. Involucrum none. 



The iiabit of this genus is different from Ofmunda, and 

 extremely remarkable, on account of its compound ipikes, 

 always perfeftly diftir.itl from the leafy part of the frond, 

 and generally fituated in pairs, on long ftalks, on the com- 

 mon ftalk at the bafe of that leafy part. Such at leaft is the 

 cafe with the whole of the firft feftion ; in the fecond, the 

 fruit-bearing flalks are radical and folitary. It is clofely 

 related to Botrychium, to be defcribed hereafter ; but that 

 has globular capfules of two diftinft valves, neither ftriated 

 nor annulated. Their receptacles, indeed, exaftly agree ; 

 and the ilrix are fo obfcure in Anemia, that we are much 

 inclined to unite it with Botrychium. 



Seft. I. Panicles offpikcs in pairs, Jl ailed, at the bafe of the 

 leaf. 



1. A., phyllitidis. Broad-leaved Anemia. Swartz n. i. 

 Willd. n. I. (Ofmunda phyllitidis; Lum. Sp. PI. 1520. 

 O. lanceolata et fubtilit^r ferrata ; Plum. Fil. 133. t. 156. 

 O. racemifera, phyllitidis folio vix crenato ; Petiv. Fil. 

 n. 163. t. 8. f. 15.) — Frond pinnate ; leaflets ovato-lanceo- 

 late, pointed, finely ferrated, fmooth as well as the common 

 flalk. — Native of South America and the Wefl Indies. 

 Brought from Brafil, by the late fir George Leonard 

 Staunton, in 1 793. A very handfome fern, eighteen inches 

 or two feet high, its tufted root producing feveral upright 



fronds. Each of thefe confifts of a fmooth, rather flender, 

 ftraight common Jlalk, bearing at the top an upright fimply 

 pinnate leaf, of from four to eight pair of fmooth, veiny, 

 bluntly ferrated, fomewhat flalked, leaflets, befides an odd 

 one ; their length from two to four inches. Clofe to the 

 bafe of this pinnate leaf, on the upper fide, or front, are 

 ftationed a pair of equal, long-flalked, triply pinnate ^^(.^fj-, 

 of minute, pale, very numerous, capfules, ranged in double 

 rows along one fide of the linear compound flalk, or recepta- 

 cle, the common Jlalk of the whole being fomewhat hairy. 

 Thefe com^onnA fpikes always rife a little above the point of 

 the terminal kajlet. 



2. A. hirta. Rough-leaved Anemia. Swartz n. 2. 

 Willd. n. 2. (Ofmunda hirta; Linn. Sp. PI. 1520. O. 

 hirfuta, lonchitidis foho ; Plum. Fil. 134. t. 157. O. fpicis 

 geminis ; Petiv. Fil. n. 164. t. 14. f. 5. Lonchitis hirfuta 

 florida ; Plum. Amer. 18. t. 26.) — Frond pinnate ; leaflets 

 oblong-lanceolate, hairy, finely ferrated, and fomewhat cut ; 

 very unequal at the bafe. Stalks all hairy. — Native of the 

 Wefl Indies. Smaller in every part than the laft, being 

 fcarcely above a foot high ; and diftinguifhed alfo by the 

 great dilatation of the upper fide of each leaflet, at its bafe. 

 The upper ones run into a fort of pinnatifid elongated 



point. 



