B A U 



Floral leftves ovate. CaiyK elongated, fomewhat lanceolate. 

 — In dry funny woods of L.ower Carolina. Perennial, 

 flowering from May to July. Seen in Mr. Lyon's herba- 

 rium. Purjh- Flonvers bright yellow, on fliort footftalks. 

 r/alter. 



2. .B. cansfcens. True Puceoon. Mich. n. 2. t. 14. 

 Purlh n. 2. (Anchufa hirta ; Muhlenb. Cat. 19. A. 

 virginiana ; Linn. Sp. PI. 191. A. floribus fparfis, caule 

 glabro ; Gron. Virg. ed. 2. 24. Lithofpermum virginia- 

 num, flore luteo duplici ; Morif. feci. 11. t. 28. f. 4.) — 

 Downy and hoary. Leaves all oblong. Calyx very fliort. 

 Segments of the corolla entire. — On dry funny hills on a 

 fandy foil, in Virginia, Tenneffee, &c. perennial, flowering 

 in June and July. Fhiuers of a deep golden-yellow. The 

 root is covered with a red fubftance, which is the true Puc- 

 eoon of the Indians, and paints a beautiful red. PurJh. 

 With this colour, it feems, the native Americans painted 

 their bodies. The whole herb is clothed with foft hairs, 

 nor is the Jlem, as Linnaeus fays, fmooth. He had no 

 fpecimen of this plant, when he wrote either edition of 

 Sp. Pi, but afterwards confounded herewith a totally dif- 

 ferent Siberian plant, which lies under this name in his her- 

 barium, but without the requifite marks of authenticity. 

 Morifon's figure reprefents a double-flowered variety, which 

 is very unufual in this natural order. 



3. B. longiflora. Long-flowered Puceoon. Purrti n. 3. 

 — " Downy and filky. Leaves linear. Calyx long and 

 linear. Segments of the corolla notched ; tube elongated." 

 — Found by Mr. Nuttall, on the banks of the Mifiburi. 

 Perennial, flowering in July. Flozuers yellow. PurJh. 



We ftiould prefume that all thefe fpecies belong rather 

 to Lithofpermum than to Anchufa, but we have only feen 

 the fecond, communicated in a dried ftate, from Pennfylvania, 

 by the late Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg. 



BATTAM, the Bahta of Strabo, in Geography, a town 

 ')f Armenia, in the pachalic of Erzeroom, on the Euxine. 

 This is a commercial place ; and between it and Akiflia 

 are the towns of Ifchoetfcheloe, Gartziemie, Schwaghaewal, 

 3--d Kaettaejac. 



Vol. IV. 

 BATTING. See Cottok, and Manufacture of 



Cotton . 



BATTLE, 1. ult. r. and in 181 1 had 361 houfes, and 

 2531 perfons ; 1232 being males, and 1299 females. 



Battle, Order of. Col. 6, 1. 19, to 1. 41, dele. 



BATZ. Add — The florin at Auglburg is divided into 

 15 batzes, (or batzen,) or 20 kayfergrochen. A thaler, or 

 rix -dollar, is worth i\ florin, 22^ batzes, or 90 creutzers. 

 At Bafil, the thaler, or rix-dollar, is worth 3 hvres, 27 

 good batzes, or 30 Swifs batzes ; the florin, 15 good batzes, 

 or 16J Swifs batzes; the livre, 9 good batzes, or 10 

 Swifs ditto. A good batze is 4 creutzers ; a Swifs batze, 

 2 fous, or 7,1 creutzers. At Bern, accounts are kept in 

 livres of 20 fous, the fou of 1 2 dcniers ; alfo in livres, or 

 francs, of 10 batzes, or 40 creutzers ; and in crowns of 

 25 batzes, or 100 creutzers. A rix-dollar, or ecu blaiic, is 

 worth 30 batzes ; a crown, 25 batzes ; a florin, 15 batzes ; 

 a livre', or franc, 10 batzes; a pfund, 7i batzes, or 15 

 fous ; a batze, 2 fous, or 4 creutzers. 



BAUERA, in Botany, received its name, not from fir 

 Jofeph Banks, as Mr. Andrews, by miilake, has recorded, 

 but from the author of the prefent article ; in due com- 

 memoration of thofe excellent botanical artifts, and praftical 

 obfervers, Mr. Francis Bauer, fo long employed as a 

 draughtfman at Kew, and his brother Mr. Ferdinand Bauer, 



BAY 



who after being engaged in the fame occupation by Di'i 

 Sibthorp in Greece, accompanied Mr. Brown to New Hol- 

 land, and is now returned to Germany, having left behind 



him in England unrivalled monuments of his abilities. 



Andr. Repof. t. 198. Ait, Hort. Kew. v. 3. 317. Salift). 

 in Ann. of Bot. v. I. 5 14. t. 10. — Clafs and order, Poly- 

 andria Digynia. Nat. Ord. Saxifrage Juff. Salifb. Cuno- 

 niace<t. Brown, Bot. of Terra Aullr. 16. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, in eight 

 deep, lanceolate, reflexed, permanent fegments. Cor. 

 Petals eight, obovate, equal, concave, alternate with the 

 calyx, and nearly twice as long. Stam. Filaments numerous, 

 thread-fhaped, inferted into the receptacle, half as long as 

 the petals ; anthers ereft, obovate, of two cells, burfting at 

 the fummit. P\fl- Germen fuperior, fomewhat pyramidal, 

 obtufe ; ftyles two, thiead-fhaped, longer than the ftamens, 

 recurved ; iligmas fimple, obtufe. Perk. Capfule round- 

 ifli, tumid, fomewhat compreffed, with two fhort, divaricated, 

 pointed lobes, of two cells and two valves, burfting at the 

 top, between the points ; partition contrary to the valves. 

 Seeds numerous, oval, con-ugated, inferted into the central 

 column. 



EiT. Ch. Calyx inferior, in eight permanent fegments. 

 Petals eight. Capfule inflated, of two cells, \vith many 

 feeds. 



I. B. rubiafcUa. Madder-leaved Bauera. Salifb. as 

 above. Ait. n. i. ( B. rubioides ; Andr. Repof. t. 198. 

 Curt. Mag. t. 715. Venten. Malmaif. t. 96.) — Native of 

 New South Wales. Firft. difcovered in that country by fir 

 Jofeph Banks. We received {peciinens and feeds from Dr. 

 White, among the firft communications from the fettlement 

 there, and this beautiful fhrub was raifed by the late marchio- 

 nefs of Rockingham, at Hillingdon, in 1 793 . It requires the 

 ftielter of a green-houfe, or confervatory, and flowers during 

 moft part of the fummer and autumn. Theflem is five or 

 fix feet high, much branched, woody, but flender and weak ; 

 the branches oppofite, round, leafy^ fomewhat hairy. 

 Leaves oppofite, or fometimes three together, ternate, nearly 

 feffile, evergreen, wndely fpreading ; leaflets thrse-quarters 

 of an inch long, lanceolate, diftantly ferrated, their ribs a 

 little hairy beneath ; their upper furface convex, of a deep 

 fhining green ; under paler. Flotvers axillary, on fimple 

 hairy ilalks, longer than the leaves, a little drooping, 

 fcarcely an inch broad, of a beautiful rich rofe-colour, with 

 yellow anthers, inodorous. The parts of the flower vary 

 occaflonally in number, from feven to nine or ten. The 

 branches, like the leaves, are fometimes three together, and 

 when young, have, hke them, a reddifli tinge, which the per- 

 manent calyx, and old leaves, Ukewifc aflfurae. We do not 

 very clearly perceive tlie refemblance to Madder- in the 

 leaves, and Ihould have been glad if the fpecific name origin- 

 ally propofed, formofa, had been retained for a plant which 

 fo well deferves that appeUation. 



Another fpecies is mentioned, by the name of B. humilis, 

 in Ait. Epit. 364, as introduced at Kew, from New Hol- 

 land in 1805, and flowering in June and July. But not a 

 word is faid refpeding the fpecific differences between the 



""iSAYAZID.in Geography, one of the Turkiih pachalics 

 of Armenia : the city of this name hes at thedillance ot two 

 days' iourney from Erwan, nine from Erzeroom, and tour 

 from ibioi, and occupies the dechvity of a mountain, the 

 fummit of which is ftrongly fortified. The city is fur- 

 rounded with walls and ramparts: it has two churches and 

 three mofques ; and the monaftery of Kara Killeefea is 

 famous for the beauty of its architeaure, its antiquity, and 

 its grandeur. The inhabitants are reported to amount to 



