NOT 
to promiffory notes, that are indorfed over and negociated 
from one hand to another; only that, in this cafe, as there 
is no drawer, there can be no proteft for non-acceptance ; or 
rather, the law confers a promiffory note in the light of a 
upon himfelf, and accepted at the time 
drawing : I te of non-payment by the drawer, 
the Can indorter of a promiffory note have the fame re- 
Hare ils ex ial again{t the prior indorfers. 
nat 
cap. 2 
To ~ a Bill, is when a public notary goes as a witnefs, 
or takes notice, that a merchant will not accept or pay it. 
See Prot 
Note of a a Fine, is a brief of a fine made by the chiro- 
grapher, before it be ingroffed. Or, it is an abftract o 
the writ of covenant and the concord ; naming the Baa 
the parcels of land, and the agreement. ‘This 
enrolled of record in the proper office, by 5 Hen. Iv. 
cap. 14 
NoTEBACH, in pee atiaee atown of Sweden, in the 
province of Smaland; 43 m . almar. 
NOTELAA, in ie ‘fo named by the late M. Ven- 
tenat, from ylos, the fouth, and cruz, an olive, or olive trecy 
of the fhrubs which compofe this 
Indeed this affinity is fo 
doubt whether they ought to be fepa- 
rated. € rown, fo acute in difcerning, and fo 
prone, in man aie to eftablifh generic differences, though 
he has adopted Wotelea, feems inclined to think it might be 
united with Chionanthus and Oka, as well as Phillyrea; 
ce that we ae 
which laft he has, like Mr. Salifbury, potuele reduced to 
Olea _ Choix de Plantes, 25. rown. Prod. Nov. 
lv 2 Ait. Hort. Kew. ed.2. v. 1. 22. (Rhy- 
Holl. v. 1. 523. 
fofpermum; Gertn. fil. t. 224.)—Clafs and order, Diandria 
Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Sepiarie, Linn. Jafminee, Jufl. 
leine, Br 
G Cal. Perianth of one leaf, inferior, fmall, tu- 
alyx. 
cell. 
Eff. Ch. Corolla of four petals, combined in pairs by the 
— Drupa oval. 
_N. bgifil oe we mai Holland Olive. Br. 
1. Vente 25. (Olea apetala ; 
‘Ande. Repot t. 2163 bat not -; Vaht or Willdenow. )— 
NOT 
Leaves lanceolate, reticulated with veins on both fides; more 
ents of the 
aricated. Fruit ab 
Banks in New 
elliptical stat curved at the point, and flowers really def- 
roll 
titute of a a. 
: ye ata. Dotted-leaved New uae Olive. Br. 
. 2.——‘6 Leaves lanceolate, tapering a e bafe; veiny 
above; fmooth and very thickly ae ah obfolete 
veins, beneath. » Ga thered by Mr. Brown in the tropical 
part of New Hollan 
3. N. ovata. Ovate New Holland Olive. Br. n. 3.— 
‘¢ Leaves ovate, fmooth, without dots. Segments of the 
calyx equal. Stigma feffile, undivided.”,—Gathered by Mr. 
Brown near ae Jackfon. We obtained from Kew garden, 
in 1798, cimen which anfwers to this Ss but no 
fuch ae occurs in Mr. Aiton’s work. lant has 
leaves three or four poi long, and above one pron. en tire, 
acute at eous, {mooth, the tranfverfe veins 
» each cluft 
concave, frin 
4. N. Fguft rina. Privet- ieee ‘New pes Olive. Br. 
ent. Choix, under ‘“ Leaves 
lanceolate, ‘narrow, elongated, fralked, oe fmooth: fimple 
in the margin; dotted beneath ; veins obfolete on both 
fides, Native of Van Diemen’s land. Sent to Kew by 
P. G. King ae in 1807. It is kept in the greenhoufe, 
flowering in Jul : 
5. N. lerocarpa mall-fruited New Holland Olive. 
Br. n. ip aie Rian elongated, tapering 
at the bale, neal eile, very fmooth 5 lightly dotted be- 
neath; manifeftly veiny above —Native of the tropical 
part of New Holland, Drupa ich than a pea; in the pre- 
ceding lar 
NOTHE Cost, in Anatomy, aterm under which the 
falfe ribs are fometimes defcribed. 
NOTHING, Nihil, nihilum, or non ens. 
The ee diftinguith between nothing taken ftri@ly, 
blero is what is impoffible, or implies a contradi@tion; and 
nothing taken more eeneeally. which is both applied to what 
is poffible and impoflible. 
Again, they diftinguith nothing into negative, which is 
ay ab A ieace of reality in any fubje& ; and privative, which 
the abfence of reality in a fubje€t capable thereof, or 
es it ought to be found. 
NOTHOLANA, in Botany, fo called by Mr. R. 
rown, a8 we prefum e, from vo$e:, Spurious, and as wool ; 
becaufe there is no invol ucrum, bur in its ftead the briftly, 
{caly, woolly covering of the frond affords a fort of 
fpurious peue cn to ae Brown sa 
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