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BRIGHTON, a town of Madachufctts, m Middlefex 

 county, having 608 inhabitants. 



BRIMFIELD, 1.3, r. 1325. 



BRISTOL. Add— In 181 1, this city, with Barton 

 Regis hundred, contained 1 1,940 houfcs, and 76,433 per- 

 sons ; 32,842 being males, and 43,591 females. 



Bristol, in America,!. 2, r. 2753; 1. 8,r. 37,168; 1. 13, 

 r. 5072 ; 1.23, r. 2693; 1. 29, add— It contains I428mhabit- 

 ar.ts ; 1. 33, after houfes, add— The number of inhabitants, 

 by the cenfus of 1810, was628; 1. 36, after county— having 

 965 inhabitants; 1. 39, r. 1179, add — Alfo, a townftiip 

 of Pennfylvania, in Berks county, having 1608 mhabitants. 



Alfo, a townfhip of Ohio, in the county of Trumbull, 



having 202 inhabitants. 



BRITAIN, Little, a townfhip of Pennfylvania, in 

 Lancafter county, containing 1708 inhabitants. 



Britain, London, a townfhip of Luzerne county, having 

 404 inhabitants. 



BROAD Creek, a hundred of Delaware, in the county 

 of Suflex, having 3789 inhabitants. 



BROCKLESBY, 1. 10, after Ballytore, add— (which 

 fee,) and dele the remaining part of the fentence. 



BRODI.£A, in Botany, fo named by the writer of the 

 prefent article, after James Brodie, efq. F.L.S., of Brodie 

 in North Britain, an experienced and liberal Britirti botanift, 

 whofe name often occurs in the EngTiJh Botany, and to 

 whom a genus of the patrician order is with great propriety 



infcribed Sm. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 10. i. Purfh 223. 



(Hookera ; Salif. Parad. 98.)— Clafs and order, Tnandria 

 Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Spatbacea, Linn. NardJJi, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Cat. none, uiilefs the brafteas be fo called. 

 Cor. of one petal, bell-(haped, cut half way down into iix 

 nearly equal, oblong, rather fpreading fegments ; throat 

 crowned with three eredl fcales, ihorter than the limb, 

 oppofitc to three alternate fegments. Stam. Filaments 

 three, inferted into the tube between the fcales, and oppofite 

 to the other three fegments, avvl-ftiaped, ereft ; anthers 

 vertical, linear, fliorter than the fcales, cloven at each end. 

 Pijl. Germen fupcrior, elliptic^oblong, triangular ; ftyle 

 cylindrical, nearly the length of the ilamens ; lligma trian- 

 gular, three-lobed. Peru. Capfule of three cells and three 

 \alves, with central partitions. Seeds numerous, elliptic- 

 oblong, inferted into tiie inner margin of each paitition in 

 two rows. 



EIT. Ch. Corolla inferior, tubular ; limb regular, in fix 

 deep fegments ; throat crowned with three fcales, alternate 

 with the ftamens. Capfule of three cells, with numerous 

 feeds. 



1. "?). graiidiflora. Large -flowered Brodiasa, or Miflburi 

 Hyacinth. Sm. n. I. Purfh n. I. (Hookera coronaria ; 

 Salif. Parad. t. 98.) — Scales of the corolla undivided. 

 Partial ftalks longer than the flowers. — Difcovered by Mr. 

 Menzies in 1792, in New Georgia, on the weft coaft of 

 North America. Governor Lewis is recorded to have 

 gathered this plant on the plains of the Columbia and 

 Miflburi rivers, flowering in April and May. It is reported 

 to have bloomed in Mr. Salilbury's garden, but is not 

 admitted into Hort. Kew. or the Addenda to that work. 

 Tlie root is bulbous, folid. Leaves two, radical, linear, 

 channelled, near a foot long. Floivei-Jlalk folitary, bearing 

 an unequal, brafteated umbel, of upright, handfome, blue 

 floiuers, each near an inch long, with yQ\\ovi'\'\\ fcales, and yel- 

 low anthers. 



2. B. congejla. Crowded 'Brodivea. Sm. n. 2. t. I. — 

 Scales of the corolla cloven. Partial ilaiks much fliorter 

 than the flowers Brought by Mr. Menzies, with a co- 

 loured drawing, from New Georgia. The Jlowcrs are 



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rather numerous, fmaller than the foregoing, and form a 

 denfe head, fubtended by pointed braHeas. 



BROKENSTRAW, a townfhip of Warren county, 

 in Pennfylvania, having 379 inhabitants. 



BROMELI.(E, in Botany, the 15th order in Juflieu's 

 fyfl;em, the 5th of his third clafs. See Junci. 



The Bromelitc are thus defined. Calyx [Corolla of Lin- 

 nteus) in fix, more or lefs deep, fegments, either fuperior 

 or inferior, equal, or moftly unequal, the three alternate divi- 

 fions being largeft. Stam. fix, inferted into the bottom or 

 middle of that part, or foraetimes into calycine glands, 

 lying over the germen. Germen Ample, fuperior or inferior ; 

 ftyle one ; ftigma three-cleft. Fruit of three cells, either 

 pulpy and not burfting, or capfular and of three valves ; 

 each cell containing one or many feeds. The leaves are 

 fheathing, all for the moft part radical. Flowers fpiked, 

 panicled, or more rarely corymboff, each accompanied by 

 a fpatha. 



Seft. I. Germen fuperior. 



Burmannia and Tillandfia, with Puya of Molina, JufT. 

 append. 447. 



Se£l. 2. Germen inferior. 



Xerophyta, Bromelia, and Agave. 



BROMSGROVE, in Geography. In 181 1, the parifh 

 of Bromfgrove contained 1378 houfes, and 6932 perfons ; 

 3349 being males, and 3583 females: 357 families em- 

 ployed in agriculture, and 1085 in trade and manufactures. 



BRONZITE. See Mineralogy, Mdenda. 



BROOK, Honey, in Geography, a townfliip of Pennfyl- 

 vania, in Chefter county, with 1073 inhabitants. 



BROOKE, a county of Virginia, containing 5843 inha- 

 bitants, including 332 flaves. 



BROOKFIELD, 1.4, r. 3170; 1. u, for 421 r. 1384; 

 1. ult., add — containing 1037 inhabitants. 



BROOKLIME, a town of New Hampfliire, in Hilf- 

 borough county, having 538 inhabitants. — Alfo, a town of 

 Vermont, in Windham county, having 431 inhabitants. — 

 Alfo, a town in Strafford county, in New Hampfliire, with 

 657 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of Ohio, in the county 

 of Trumbull, having 345 inhabitants. 



BROOKLYN, 1. 2, 704 inhabitants; 1. ult. containing 

 1200 inhabitants. 



BROOME, a county of New York, including 8130 

 inhabitants. 



BROSELEY. In 181 1 this parifh contained 1025 

 houfes, and 4850 perfons; 2448 being males, and 2402 

 females : 48 families employed in agriculture, and 856 in 

 trade and manufactures. 



BROTERA, in Botany, a name applied to two very 

 different plants, in due commemoration of the Rev. Father 

 Felix Avellar Brotero, profefTor of botany at Coimbra in 

 Portugal, author of the Flora Lufitanica, and feveral 

 other learned works. The Brotera of the late profefTor 

 Willdenow, Sp. PI. v. 3. 2399, Carthamus eorymbofus of 

 Linna:us, appears to us founded on a total milconception 

 of the ttrufture of the flower, in wliich we can find 

 no charafter whatever different from Carthamus. This 

 genus is, however, adopted in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 5. 186, 

 according to the general plan of that work, where the 

 editors had no particular objett of reformation or illuftra- 

 tion in view. The other Brotera is pubhlTied by profefTor 

 Sprengel, in Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 6. 151. Its only fpecies 

 is B. perjica, brought by Olivier and Bruguiere from Periia. 

 We regret to obferve that this is manifefUy a Hvpxis 

 (fee that article) ; and we lament that it was, from full 

 confidence in its learned and diftinguiflied author, too 

 incautioufly admitted into the Linnsan Tranfadtions, for 



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