NIG 
and red. Nedaries five or more, yellow, with tranfverfe 
crimfon ftripes, hairy ; the fegments of their lip acute. 
Capfules oe compreffed, combined at their inner edges, 
about hal - Seeds flattifh, furrounded with amem- 
branous border. 
ELLA, in Gardening, comprifes plants of the hardy 
betes flowering annual kind, of which the fpecies culti- 
vated are; the common fennel-flower (N. dama{cena) ; the 
{mall (indice: (N. fativa) ; the field fennel- flower 
(N. arvenfis) ; the Spanith fennel-flower (N. hifpanica) ; 
and the yellow fennel-flower (N. orientalis 
e firft {pecies from the fine cut leaves about the flower, 
has the names of Fennel- Power, Devil- -in-a-bufb, and Love- 
in-a-mift ; but the firlt is 
And there is a variety of it with fingle white flowers, and 
another with double flowers, which is i a cultivated 
in gardens with other annuals for ornam 
Of the third there is a variety mith aie flowers, and 
another with double flowers. 
And the fourth has likewife a ease with double ‘flowers. 
Method of Culture—Thefe are all increafed by 
ia every ae 
t the as with double flowers are chiefly intro- 
duced a flower gar 
Memel. 
NIGEMOW, a town of Poland, in Galicia; 14 miles 
E.S.E. of Halicz 
NIGER, C. Pesce in Biography, a cee 
competitor for the mpire, defcended von equef- 
trian family, fettled a Agee » was brought up to at mi- 
nie syed sae paffed through different iene of rank, 
de ch as to procure the notice and efteem of the 
arcus aA urelius. Under Commodus he fignalized 
himfe If in a war with the barbarians in the vicinity: of the 
Danube, and from his condué& when ae: againft fome re- 
volters ia Gaul, he was recommended to the emperor, by 
Septimius Severus, as a man neceffary to the ftate. e was 
afterwards raifed to the one at the particular requeft of 
the troops ferving under him, and he was in poffeffion of the 
important government of Syria, at the time of the death of 
Commodus, A.D. 192. The moft ample teftimony is given 
by hiftorians to his excellence as a military commander. H 
punifhed theft with the aged rigour. ‘To every thing like 
was a declared foe. 
oO 
NIG 
cumftance of command, 
fidence that he ncaa oe ier fufficient eer from the 
fubje Ro dence proved his ruin 
fo ridable competitor feclaed himfelf ; this was Septimius 
ae Se was ead of the legions i in Illyria, and 
queror attacked the emperor himfelf, ane in an obftinate con- 
flit, drove Niger from the field, who, with a few of his 
fecuds, fled for fafety beyond mount Taurus. He had, 
previoufly tu this, fortified with great care the paffes of this 
ridge between Cappadocia and Cilicia, and leaving them 
under a ttrong guard, he went to Antioch to levy new forces, 
A violent cpl attended with torrents of a. overthrew 
nthe ve 
n by the enemy’s cava alry, he was kille 
could reach the Euphrates. i 
of the 
together with all that bore the name of the unfortunate em- 
peror. niver. Hi 
NIGER, in Geojeraphy, a river . - co defcribed by the 
Moors under the name o of < “© Nel, « »e eed,”’ or the 
{mall village denominated Sankari, in the high lands of 
evar ate) = fix days’ journey S.W. from Bamma- 
oo. From this moft elevated point in the weftern quarter 
of Africa, bass the fifth and ninth degrees of W. lon- 
gitude, the Niger and Gambia turn, in oppofite dire¢tions, 
si baad 
eaft, 
