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contains alfo much botanical matter, and has been pubHlhed 

 in Englifh, at London, in 1802, with plates. M. Labillar- 

 diere has always diftinguiihed himfelf as a claflical botanift, 

 of the Linnaean fchool, preferring the interefts of fcience to 

 thofe of fyltem, and following no leader but what he con- 

 ceives to be truth. — Smith Bot. of New HoU. I. Labill. 

 Nov. Holl. V. I. 64. Willd. Sp. PI. V. I. 1 1 50. Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. V. 2. 39. — Clafs and order, Pentandria Mono- 

 gynia. Nat. Ord. uncertain. Akin to Plttofporum, and 

 therefore to the Rhatnn't of Juflicu, as they Hand at prefent. 

 Saiyb. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of five lanceolate, 

 coloured, equal, deciduous leaves. Cor. Petals five, inferted 

 into the receptacle, alternate with the calyx, and twice as 

 long, linear -lanceolate, ereft ; their claws more or lefs con- 

 verging in the form of a tube ; border fprcading, acute, 

 recurved. NeClary none. Stam. Filaments five, inferted 

 into the receptacle, alternate with the petals, the length of 

 the claws, avvl-fhapcd ; anthers ovate-obJong, attached by 

 the back, of two cells, burRing lengthwife, internally. Pi/i. 

 Germen fuperior, cUiptic-oblong ; ftyle awl-fhaped, the 

 length of the ftamcns ; lligma obtufe. Peiic. Berry 

 rouudilh-oblong, of two cells. Seeds numerous, roundilh, 

 inferted into the central column. 



EIT. Ch. Calyx of five leaves, deciduous. Petals fire, 

 alternate with the calyx, converging into a tube. Stigma 

 obtufe. Berry fuperior, of two cells, with many feeds. 



The fpecies are all flender, twiriing, branched Jhrubs, 

 with fcattered, fimplc, undivided, nearly entire, more or 

 lefs downy, leaves, on ihort footftalks. F/owers and fruit 

 pendulous, on terminal ftalks. 



I. V>. feandeiis. Climbing Billardiera, or Apple-berry. 

 Sm. Bot. of New Holl. i. t. i. Willd. n. i. Ait. n. i. 

 Curt. Mag. t. 801. — lA'aves elliptic-lanceolate. Berry cy- 

 lindrical, obtufe, downy. — Native of Port Jackfon, New 

 South Wales, from whence we received fpecimcns and 

 coloured drawings, by the kindnefs of Dr. White. Sir 

 Jofeph Banks fent feeds, or plants, to Ke\v, in 1790, and 

 we have fince feen flowers and ripe fruit in many couferva- 

 tories. A low JJjnib, with varioufly twilled and climbing 

 branches. Leaves an inch and a half or two inches long, 

 elliptic -oblong, of a dull but not dark green ; paler and 

 moil downy beneath ; their edges fomew-hat wavy and re- 

 flexed, fcarccly notched. Flozuers on hairy ftalks, pale 

 lemon-coloured, an inch long, with a hairy yellowifli calyx. 

 Germen very hairy. Berry above an inch in length, cylin- 

 drical, equally obtufe at each end, yellow, downy all over, 

 full of brown feeds, its pulp foft, fweet, but rather infipid 

 in this country, though faid, in a wild ftate,' to refcmble a 

 roafted apple. The figure in the Botany of New Holland 

 ■was taken from a drawing made in that country. We 

 reafJily concur with our friend Dr. Sims, in Curt. Mag. 

 p. 1507, that it is impolTible to find a name v.hich will con- 

 trail the only known fpecies of a genus, with all that may 

 hereafter be found, and it happens that all the Billardiera 

 are climbers. The appellation above, therefore, fcrves to 

 fhevv the prefent to have been the originally defcribed 

 fpecies. There ai-e feveral fuch inftances in the liiftory of 

 Linnaean genera, nor would it be allowable to alter the 

 original fpecific name on this account. 



2. B. mutabilis. Changeable-flowered Billardiera. Sahfb. 

 Parad. t. 48. Ait. a. 2. Curt. Mag. t. 13 13. — Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate. Berry cylindrical, obtufe, fmcoth. — 

 Native of New South Wales. Eafily cultivated in a green - 

 houfe, and incrcafed by cuttings or ieeds. The leaves arc 

 narrower and fmoother than in the foregoing fpecies. The 

 ^oaucrs^ at firft of a pale greenilh-yellow, turn purple before 



they fall. The germen and friiii are faid to be always 

 fmooth, the form of the latter agreeing with B. fcandens. 

 Floiuer-Jlalks fmooth. 



3. B. fufiformis. Spindle-fliaped Billardiera. Labill. 

 Nov. Holl. V. I. 65. t. 90. — Leaves oblong-lanceolato. 

 Flowers aggregate. Petals fpreading. Berry fpindle- 

 fliaped, pointed, iilky, dry. — Gathered by M. Labillardierc 

 at the Cape of Van Diemen, in December. The Jlem is 

 generally climbing. Leaves lomewhat hairy, larger than in 

 the laft. Flowers from two to fix at the end of each 

 branch, forming more or lefs of a duller, blue, the petals 

 more ovate, and fpreading from the bafe, than in other 

 fpecies. Anthers converging. Berry fmall and tapering, 

 of a membranous texture, filky, deftitute of pulp. 



4. B. longiflora. Blue-berried Billardiera. Labill. Nov. 

 Holl. v. I. 64. t. 89. Curt. Mag. t. 1507. Ait. Epit. 

 364. — Leaves lanceolate. Petals converging. Berry nearly 

 globular, lobed, fmooth. — Native of the lame country as 

 the laft. Raifed here by MeiTrs. Loddiges. The Jlowers 

 are folitary, pale yellow, longer and more tubular than in 

 any of the reft. Fruit remarkably different, being ftiort 

 and roundifh, of a fine blue. Dr. Sims has well obferved, 

 that this part affords, in the prefent genus, the bell fpecific 

 diftinftions. 



BILLERICA, 1. 2, /-. 1289. 



BILLS, ExciiEQUER. See ExcuEQUER-^y/Zr. 



Bill of Health, an account of the health of a crew, 

 given by the captain or mailer of a veflel. 



Bills, India, bills drawn in India on the Eaft India 

 company in London, and payable at the India-houfe. 



Bills, FiSualling. See Navy and Viclualling Bills. 



BILLYMEAD, a town of Vermont, in the county of 

 Caledonia, containing 433 inhabitants. 



BILSTON, 1. ult. for 1305 r. 1818 ; and for 6914 r. 

 9646. 



BiLSTOX, 1. ;///. for 121 r. no ; and for 744 r. 762. 



BIR. Add — According to M. d'Anville this place rc- 

 prefents the ancient Birtha. The caravans travelling from 

 Aleppo to Orfa pafs the Euphrates on a bridge of boats at 

 this place, fituated 144 miles from Aleppo, and 67 from 

 Orfa, in N. lat. 36° 58'. A tax is paid at this town, which 

 is in a dilapidated llatc ; and all travellers and merchants 

 crofs the Euphrates, wliich is here deep and rapid, and 

 about 130 yaids broad. 



BIRDS, Anatomy of. The references to the plates to 

 be expunged. Col. 7, 1. 33, after another, infert — a good 

 inftance of which is found in, &c. ending heron ; 1. 35, r. 

 The bulbus in the oftrich is a long narrow band lying on the 

 front of the ftomach. The ftrudture, &c. ; 1. 53, dele like 

 other, &c. to fecretion. Col. 9, 1. 42, for fuperficial view 

 r. flight examination. Col. II, 1. 20, after inteftine dek 

 to ventricle, 1. 34; and infert — If the cavity of tlie llomach 

 in the heron be diftendcd with any tranfparent fluid and held 

 up to the light, the zone of gailric glands will be plainly 

 feen through its coats. If Spallanzani had employed this 

 expedient, he could not have denied a dillindt glandular 

 ftruClure to the heron. The inferior part of the ftomach 

 is chiefly compofed of mufcular fibres, fpreading in a radi- 

 ated manner from a lateral aponeurofis, which fupplies the 

 place of the great tendons of the digaftric mufcle. Tlie 

 fecond cavity or ftomach in the heron is a fmal! round bag, 

 furniflied only with circular mufcular fibres ; 1. 35, ior 

 ftraiglit r. contracted. Col. 13, 1. 14, dele f o ; 1. 15, after 

 refpect dele to the end of the paragraph. Col. 14, 1. 15, 

 dele after adjoining to the end of the paragraph. Col. 16, 

 1. 16 from the bottom, after receive, infert — fome of. 

 Col. 19, 1. 28 from the bottom, infert after by — one of the 



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