tion in refpect of 
HAIR. 
- in the Manege, and amon, pao is popularly 
| a coat, kes an objeét of principal He a 
_ Ifthe hair of a Reciet> Me that about the neck, and 
paris u peconcred, be fleek and {mooth, and clofe,.it is an 
s being in health, 
and good cafe: if rough 
aw, ie or any way difcoloured, it denotes a coldnels, 
= f{weated, the coat muft be 
down. 
rt inward defect. To aaa the hair {mooth, 
k, and foft, he mult be kept warm, fweated often, and 
well fcraped, and rubbed 
The hait growing on the fetlock, forves ‘ag. a Gclenea $0 
ie rominent a thereof, in travelling on ftony ways or 
| TES olace be in or thin of hair, or the hair be too 
eo the ancient farriers ufed to 
wath it withthe urine of 
after that with the lye of unflaked 
and 
ney el a litharge. The 
olives, and honey ; 
ines 
7 ee il Sy. is. the firft 
ae 
wafh the part with the deco¢tion of the roots 
f alum, h gs g> 
ith the root oe white lily, boiled in oil ; others with tar, 
| olives 
moderns have various other 
» EGA AGROPILA, Baus, 
HyacintTu 
ree. of the Linnzan fcale 
part of a line 
airs, are large pieces of cloth 
te A, 
j th hall a. they are ufed for covering the powder 
in waggons, or upon batteries ; as 
covering charged 
d ais other ufes in ma- 
tered, as to be of very little ufe in this way, and mutt doubt- 
iets anfwer other purpofes. It is generally to be remarked * 
that hairinefs is more abundant on the oe or under fides 
of leaves, than on the i MDRer, though. the latter i is moft ex- 
re full grown and employed in their moft important 
funétions. In a young and unexpanded ftate, the hairy 
covering of their backs and ribs, at that time moft expofed, 
may be of eminent fervice, and there can be no doubt that 
the pubefcence, with which buds of various. iis are often, 
afliduoufly clothed and proteéted, may very materially guard 
their living principle and latent warmth from external in- 
ss defines the hairs of plants to be excretory 2 
of a briftle-like form. Such they are in the passe and 
finging vegetables of the fame nature, whofe briflles are 
tubular and pervious, emitting a venomous fluid into the 
minute wounds their points inf 
fafe. 6. t. 69. “ The naked eye,” fays that i ingenious au- 
thor, “ readily perceives the inftruments by which the nettle 
inftils its poifon; a microfcope of no great ma 
power more apes difcovers them to be rigid, tran{pagent, 
tubular es, or ftings, hi - 
ages “poled, fied at their bafe with a kind of 
bulb, i 
being me on ' nom lhin 3. the . ; the. 
poifon i ang ae eit Of the venomous quality of this. 
liquid, and of the manner in which it is emitted, I have had 
ocular proof. Placing the footftalk of a nettle leaf, Urtica 
pilulifera (the prickles being more mana plage and 
adapted to the microfcope, thas Ue os ial ge r 
° ) w 
prickle was Ww or x 
prefled on the | with a Gecaee pin, es after 
fome trials, found a liquid to afcend in the pric kle, fome- 
what as the i SP sicmen when @ warm. an is. apple 
pias I e ait inly the liquor afcend to, So fe. 
y from, its very extremity. I was the more anxious. 
to fe thi af the hi fhe Rig D1 
Seaeaith oF he's atmofphere, or other eaale ‘There i 
y in thefe no partic 
coool = cio a ae sey and ye 
