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inhabitants. — Alfo, a county of Georgia, which, together 

 with its town Milledgeville, contains 6356 inhabitaats ; the 



flaves in the county being 2324, and in the town 226 



Alfo, a county in the territory of MilTiflippi, having 1427 

 inhabitants, including 717 flaves. 



BALFOURIA, in Botany, received its name from the 

 pen of Mr. Brown, in honour of his illuftrious countryman 

 fir Andrew Balfour, knight, founder of the Botanic Garden, 

 as well as of the Public Mufeum, at Edinburgh. His friend, 

 fir Robert Sibbald, has embalmed his memory in the Memo- 

 ria Balfourtana ; nor could any one be more competent to 

 this fubjeft. Thefe diftinguiflied men firft laid the found- 

 ation of the ftudy of natural Iiiftory in Scotland. — Brown 

 Tr. of the Wern. Soc. v. i. 70. Prodr. Nov. HoU. v. i. 

 467- — Clafs and order, Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. 

 Contortie, Linn. Apoc'imx, JutT. Br. 



EfT. Ch. Corolla funnel-fliapcd ; throat crowned with a 

 fmall crenate tube ; fegmeiits ctf the limb ftraight, equi- 

 lateral. Stamens inferted into the throat ; anthers arrow- 

 fliaped, pointed, cohering with the ftigma about the middle. 

 Germen of two cells ; ftyle folitary, thread-fliaped, dilated 

 at the top ; ftigma angular. Scales ten at the bafe of the 

 calyx, on the outfide of the corolla ; nons under the germen. 

 Follicles 



I. B. fallgna. Willow-leaved Balfouria. Br. n. I. — 

 Difcovered by Mr. Brown, in the tropical part of New 

 Holland. A tree, about twelve feet high, fmooth. Leaves 

 oppofite, linear-lanceolate, falcate, with little teeth between 

 the infertion of their foot/lalks. Cymes lateral as well as ter- 

 minal, three-cleft. 



BALK. Infert — or Bulkh. Col. i, 1. 3, after Bac- 

 triana, infert — It was formerly included in Khorafian, and is 

 bounded on the N.E. by the Oxus, E. by Koondooz, 

 W. by Khoraflan, and S.W. by the mountains of Huzara, 

 and the independent ftate of Mymuna. Col. 2, 1. 17, after 

 Perfians, add — The Tanjets, or the race of people who in- 

 habit tiiis country, befides the Afghans and Uftecks, are 

 corrupt and diflblute, and addifted to the moil unnatural 

 vices. The Uftecks are fimple, honeft, and humane. 

 Col. 2,1. 60, after Hindoftan, add — It is (aid to be as large 

 a? Delhi ; but moft of the houfes are uninhabited ; and the 

 population is faid to be reduced to between 6 and 7000 

 men, fubjeft to the king of Cabul. The vicinity of the 

 town is well cultivated, and com and provifions are abundant. 



BALLABUAN, r. Ballambuan, and remove to next 

 column. 



BALLISTIC Pendulum, a pendulum ufed in afcer- 

 taining the velocity, &c. of balls, the ftrength of gunpowder, 

 &c. &c. See Gunnery, Gunpowder, and Pe.vdulum. 



BALLOGISTAN, 1. jo, r. Mekran. At the clofc, 

 add — Ballogiftan, or, as it is otherwife called, Balouchiftan, 

 the country of the Balouches, is confidered by fome as a 

 province diftinft from Mekran or Mecran ; and as fuch pro- 

 perly commences at Koohinee (the hilly road) 25 miles N.E. 

 of Bayla, or in N. lat. 26^ 35', from which place it extends 

 to Noofhky, 79 miles N.W. of Kelat, or in N. lat. 30°. It 

 is faid to be a confufed mafs of tremendoirs mountains, 

 through which the road generally leads in water-courfes. 

 Flocks of fheep and herds of cattle are numerous in every 

 part of this country, and it alfo produces great quantities of 

 wheat. The territories of Mahomed Khan, chief of Ba- 

 louchiftan, comprehend all the countries lying between 

 20° 30' and 30° N. lat., and from 65^ to 69° E. long. It 

 is divided into the two mountainous provinces of Ihalawan 

 and Sarawan, the low country of Cutch Gandava to the E., 

 and the provinces of Zuhree and Amund Dajul ; to which 



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may be added the fmaU diftrifts of Shat and Muftunff Ivino- 



N. of Kelat. See Sarawan and Mecran. * 



BALLOTADE, 1. 5, ,-. thefe airs, &c. ; I. 8 r 



horfeman. ' 



BALLS, Chain. For chain-balls r. chain-hulkts. 



Balls, Slang, dele. 



BALOUCHISTAN. See Ballogistan. 



BALSAMITA, in Botany, an old name, ufed by Dodo- 

 nius and others, alluding to the balfamic odour of the 

 flowers and herbage, and their reputed ftimulating healing 

 qualities. It is revived by Profeflbr Desfontaines, who, 

 after the example of Vaillant, has recently feparated the 

 feveral fpecies of this genus from Cotula, Chryfanthemum, and 

 Tanacetum, into which they had been forced, though deftitute 

 of radiant, or female, florets, as well as of a crown to their 

 feeds — Desfont. Aft. Soc. Hift. Nat. Parif. v i i 

 WiUd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 1800. Ait. Hort. Kew. V. 5. 519.— 

 Clafs ajid order, Syngenefia Polygamia-sqtialts.' Nat. Ord, 

 Compojttte d'lfcoidee, Linn. Corytnbifent, Jufl". 



Gen. Ch. Common Calyx flattifli, imbricated ; fcales nu- 

 merous, linear, convex, acute, the inner ones with a mem- 

 branous margin. Cor. compound, uniform, tubular, longer 

 than the calyx. Florets all perfeft, numerous, funnel-fliaped, 

 equal ; their limb in five regular, acute, fpreading fegments. 

 Stam. in each floret. Filaments five, capillary ; anthers 

 united into a five-toothed tube, hardly longer than the tube 

 of the corolla. P'tjl. Germen roundifli ; ttyle thread-ftiaped, 

 longer than the corolla ; ftigmas two, revolute. Perk, none, 

 except the permanent calyx. Seeds folitary to each floret, 

 fmaU, oblong, ftriated, fometimes bordered with a narrow 

 longitudinal membrane at one fide, but abrupt at the fummit, 

 without any crown or wing. Recept. ilightly convex, naked. 

 Efl". Ch. Receptacle naked. Seed-down none. Calyx 

 imbricated. 



1. B. grandijiora. Large-flowered Coftmar)-. Deif. 

 Aft. Soc. Hift. Nat. Par. v. 1. i. t. r. Willd. n. i. 

 (Cotula grandis ; Linn. Sp. PI. 1257.) — Stem herbaceous, 

 hairy, fimple and fingle-flowered. Leaves ferrated ; radical 

 ones obovate ; thofe of the ftem lanceolate ; dilated and 

 deeply toothed at their bafe. — Found by Desfontaines in 

 corn-fields at Algiers, flowering in May. Linnaus had it 

 from thence. A handfome biennial plant, confpicuous for 

 its large, yellow, cufliion-like j?owfr, about two inches broad, 

 compofed of innumerable crowded j?or^/j-. Thcjiem is two 

 or three feet high, unbranched, leafy, and hairy. Leaves 

 numerous, fmooth ; the radical ones ftalked, two or three 

 inches long. 



2. B. -virgata. Wand-branched Coftmary. Desf. as 

 above, 2. Willd. n. 2. Ait. n. i. (Cotula grandis ; 

 Jacq. Obf. fafc. 4. 4. t. 8 1 . Chryfantliemum difcoideum ; 

 AUion. Pedem. v. i . 1 90. t. 1 1 . f. i . ) — Stem herbaceous, 

 fmooth ; branched at the bafe ; branches fingle-flowered. 

 Leaves linear -lanceolate, ferrated, nearly feflile ; upper ones 

 hnear, entire. — Native of Italy. This is the plant men- 

 tioned under his Cotula grandis by Linnreus, as having been 

 fent by AUioni. It is however, as he fufpefted, very diftind 

 from that plant ; being much fmaller in every part ; the 



Jlem fmooth and branched ; lea-oes none of them fpatulatc, 

 nor dilated and deeply cut at the bafe. Flowers fimilar, but 

 fcarcely half fo large, efpecially thofe of the lateral branches. 



3. B. ageratifolia. Sharp-toothed Coftmary. Desf. as 

 above, 2. Willd. n. 3. Ait. n. 2. (Chryfanthemum flof- 

 culofum ; Linn. Sp. PI. 1 255. Bcllis fpinofa ; Alpin. 

 Exot. 327. t. 326. B. major fpinofa, petalis carens ; 

 Morif. feft. 6. t. 9. f. 16.) — Stem flinibby, branched at the 

 bafe. Leaves obovate, fliarply ferrated, crowded. Flowers 

 corymbofe Native of Crete'; an old green-houfe plant in 



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