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England, but not popular at prefent. The branches are 

 rather loofely fpreading, fmooth, covered with fmooth haves, 

 an inch and a half long, whofe numerous teeth are (harp, and 

 even fpinous. Several deep-yellow convex _/owrj compofe 

 a corymbofe clufter at the extremity of the ftem or branch. 



4. B. vulgaris. Common Coilmary. Willd. n. 4. ( B. 

 major; Desf. as abov e, 3. Dod. Pempt. 295. B. mas ; 

 Ger. Em. 648. Mentha grxca ; Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 75. 

 Camer. Epit. 480. Tanacetum Balfamita ; Linn. Sp. PI. 



Ilg4.) Stem herbaceous. Leaves ovate, ferrated ; the 



lower ones ftalked ; upper auricled. Flowers corymbofe — 

 Native of Tufcany, France, and Switzerland. A^ hardy old 

 kitchen-garden herb, flowering in Auguft and September. 

 Root perennial. Stems round, leafy, fomewhat branched, 

 two feet high. Leaves hoary. Flotvers numerous, fmall, 

 yellowifti, accompanied with fmall leaves. The whole plant 

 has a ftrong warm odour. Gerarde fpeaks of it as fome- 

 times infufed in ale, for medicinal purpofes, but we kaow not 

 of its being in ufe at prefent, though often kept in rullic 

 gardens. 



BALTIMORE, 1. 1 2, after contains, add — by the cenfus 

 of 1810, 29,255 ; and for 5877/-. 6697. 



Baltimore, col. i, 1. 9 from the bottom, add — By the 

 cenfus of 1 8 10, the number of inhabitants in the city of Bal- 

 timore was 35,583, including 37i3fiaves; in the eailern 

 precinfts 4050, comprehending 262 (laves ; and in the well- 

 ern precinfts 6922, including 697 (laves. 



Baltimore, a town of Vermont, in the county of Wind- 

 for, having 207 inhabitants. 



BAMBERG, col. I, 1. 19, add — Before it was fecu- 

 larized in 18 13, it contained a furface of 65 German miles, 

 with a population of 192,000 fouls, and a revenue of 

 556,000 dollars. Col. i, 1. 24, after populous, add — con- 

 taining about 2030 houfes, and 16,500 inhabitants. 



BAMFF, col. 2, 1. 3l,infert — The burgh and parilh 

 contained, in 181 I, 3603 pcrfons ; 1540 males, and 2063 

 females. 



BAMFFSHIRE, col. 2, 1. 4, r. in 1811, was 36,668 

 perfons ; 16,465 males, and 20,203 females: 3815 families 

 being employed in agriculture, and 2195 in trade, manufac- 

 tures, and handicraft. 



BAMPTON, 1. 19, r. 1061 houfes, and 5864 inhabit- 

 ants ; 2882 males, and 2982 females. 



BANBURY, 1. ult. r. and the borough and parilh, by 

 therettirns of 181 1, contained 582 houfes, and 2841 perfons ; 

 1 33 1 males, and 15 10 females. 



BAND, a weight ufed on the Gold Coaft for weighing 

 gold dull, and equal to two ounces troy. 

 BAST)-Fi/h. See Cehola. 

 BANDER-Abassi, ;•. Gambron. 



BANGOR, col. 2, 1. 37, r. the city and parifh, in 181 1, 

 contained 456 houfes, and 2383 inhabitants, xi/'z. 1094 males, 

 and 1289 females. 



Bangor, in America, add — It contains 850 inhabitants. 

 BANK, Million. Add to diffolution — in 1796. 

 BANKSIA, in Botany, one of the moll magnificent and 

 peculiar genera among the native plants of New Holland, 

 was with great propriety dedicated to the honour of the 

 illuftrious difcoverer of this genus, by the younger Linnaeus. 

 (See our former article Banksia, which requires correftion, 

 as embracing feveral fpccies not now included herein, but 

 already defcribed in the prefent work under the articles 

 CoNCHiUM and Xylomelum.) On the other hand, a much 

 greater number of genuine Bankfm:, firft made known by 

 Mr. Brown, fmce the publication of that original article, 

 require to be added. We are at a lofs to account for the 

 report concerning the fpecies with folitary flowers, at the 



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end of that article. It may have had fosuc foundation uliich 

 has efcaped the memory of the writer of this. The only 

 Salisburia ever publifhed belongs to a totally different 

 family, and may be found in its proper place. Thirty-one 

 fpecies of Banlfia are defined by Mr. Brown, of which four 

 only were known to Linnaeus, from fpecimens and engravings 

 communicated by fir Jofeph Banks. — Linn. Suppl. 15. 

 Schreb. Gen. 79. Murr. in I^inn. Syd. Veg. ed. 14. 161. 

 Willd. Sp. PI. V. I. 11^. Mart. Mill. Dift. v. i. Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. v. 1. 213. Brown Tr.of Linn. Soc. v. 10.202. 

 Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. i. 391. Juff. 79. Lamarck Illuftr. 

 t. 54. f. 1,2. Girtn. t. 48. — Clafs and order, Tetramlria 

 Monogynla. Nat. Ord. Aggregate, Linn. Proteacex, Juff. 

 Brown. 



Gen. Ch. Col. Catkin cylindrical, denfe, many-flowered ; 

 flowers in pairs, with three permanent fcales to each pair, 

 two of which are interior, and fmalleft. Cor. of one petal, 

 in four deep linear fegments, at length feparating entirely, 

 fomewhat dilated and coucave at the fummits, their jjoints 

 long cohering, till torced afunder by the growing ityle. 

 Neftary four Icales at the bafe of the germen. Stam. Fila- 

 ments four, very (hort, inferted into the bafe of the cavity of 

 each petal ; anthers oblong. Pift. Germen fujjerior, of two 

 fingle-feeded cells, very fmall ; ityle cylindrical or angular, 

 rigid, gradually curved, firmly held, for a 'ong time, by the 

 combined tips of the corolla ; fligma undivided. Peric. 

 Follicle woody, firmly fixed in the receptacle, obovate, of 

 two (liallow cells ; the partition unconnected, rigid, elaftic, 

 cloven by a deep tranfverfe fifTure at the top. Seeds foli- 

 tary, comprefTed, quite flat at the inner fide, wedge-(haped, 

 and extended into a rounded, membranous, terminal wing. 



Elf. Ch. Corolla of one petal, four-cleft, bearing the 

 ftamens in the hollows of its fegments. Neftary four fcales 

 at the bafe of tlie germen. Follicle woody, of two fingle- 

 leeded cells, with a cloven moveable partition. Catkin with 

 three fcales to each pair of flowers. 



Obf. The greater part of the very numerous flowers are 

 neceflarily abortive, or there would not be room for the folli- 

 cles to ripen. 



The various fpecies, all natives of New Holland, are 

 either (hrubs, or trees of no lofty ftature. The branches 

 are umbellate ; or in Linnaan language xhe Jlem is " deter- 

 minately branched," as in Erica and other Bicornes. Leaves 

 fcattered, rarely whorled, fimple, undivided, either entire, 

 ferrated, toothed, or cut in a pinnatifid manner ; in a young 

 plant they are often varioufly cut, or toothed, though undi- 

 vided and entire on the fame when full grown. [Broivn.) 

 Catkins folitary, terminal, rarely lateral, cylindrical, in fome 

 cafes very (hort. Bj-a9eas feveral at the bafe of" each cat- 

 kin, (hort and narrow. Catkin when in fruit hard and 

 heavy, its enlarged common receptacle kmAy united With the 

 bafes of the follicles, the furface briftly with remains of the 

 Jlo'wers, and efpecially with the unimpregnated Jlyles of the 

 greater part, intermixed with the large, hard, ufually downy 

 or hairy, follicles. Seeds black, with a brown, (hining, 

 oblique iving, the convex fide of each filling a deprefhon in 

 the corrcfponding fide of the thin wooden partition. 



Seft. I. Style longer than the corolla, projeSing laterally, 

 in a curved pofition, between its fegments, the fligma being held 

 fafl, for fome time longer, between their points. Catkin, when 

 in Jloiver, cylindrical ; 'when in fruit, laden ivith numerous 

 tranfverfe follicles. Thefe Mr. Brown confiders as true 

 Bank/lie. Indeed this feftion embraces the whole genus, 

 except one fpecies. We follow Mr. Brown's names and 

 numbers. 



I. 'R. pulchella. Small-flowered Bankfia. Ait. n. i.— 

 Leaves acerofe, entire, pointlefs. Tube of the corolla 



woolly ; 



