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inundated the whole of the original village, as the old church 
and parfonage-houfe ftand clofe to the fhore, and the prefen 
village is built at fome diftance inland. Here are the ‘ase 
of a large manfion, called Oxwich caftle, which was erected 
by fir Rice Manfel, about the reign of Henry VIII. This 
edifice never appears to have been intended for the purpofes 
of defence, but it may not unlikely have been built on the 
{cite of an ancient fortrefs, as only a few yards from it there 
are ftill to be feen the remains of a watch-tower of much 
older and ftronger conftru€tion. Part of this caftle was 
ele many years ago, into a farm-houfe. Lobfters 
crabs are caught in great pletty along the whole coaft 
of this parith, which, according to the parliamentary returns 
of 1811, contains 50 houfes, and 236 inhabitants 
Penrice-caftle ftands about three miles from Ox 
ct 
wich. It 
tomb o mperors, which was brought from 
eae The. village of Penrice has a good harbour for 
fhipp 
ing. 
North from this place, upon a mountain called Com-Bryn, 
is a table-like monument, or cromlech, called Arthur’s ftone. 
It confifts of fix or feven ftones, about five feet in height, 
ry eine Sa a large flat ‘seu Aa die to a nearly 20 tons. 
rom beneath ; = ebbs and flows with the 
n_ Vai air, or my Lady’s 
which many authors, 
efpecially ie ran le eit “the Jagus, ot beech-tree. 
OXY S, a name 
we have mentioned fix in our article on his life; fee Herr 
TIER. But Aig aed and Tricratus are cited by Willde- 
now, 185 and 187, though not to be found in 
This countenances Cuvier’s area 
that none of his friends had all thefe differtations ; but w 
cannot account for his not having had them all himfelf, aad 
fible that he might merely inform Willdenow 
of a or acri a ity, or not, no author within our 
peck has related, fo that our a nay is but imperfect. 
—Willd. Sp. I, Enum, v. 2.39. Mart. 
Ait. Hort. ‘Kew ed.2.%. 3.797. (Cae 
ng v. 1. 45.)—Clafs and order, 77i- 
rd. Nydagines, J 
. Cal. Perianth inferior, of oe leaf, bell-fhaped, 
with: fie fo Ids, and five broad, equal, tallow fegments, 
mes three-flowered. Cor. 
re ing, in 
unequal, various in length; anthers roundih, ae 
Pift. god, fomewhat ftalked, veo roundifh, fur- 
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rowed; ftyle thread-fhaped, the length and pofition of the 
ftamens ; igma globofe, afcendin » none, except 
the permanent hardened bafe of the corolla. Seed folitary, 
ovate, with five angles, ftanding upon the dilated, {preading, 
permanent caly 
Eff. ele five-cleft, bell-thaped. Corolla funnel- 
thaped. Seed folitary, coated, fianding on the {preading 
permanent calyx. 
his genus is feparated from Mirabilis, on account 
of its fhort tube, lobed limb, three inflead of five fta 
= calyx much dilated after flowering. The plants which 
mpofe it have an herbaceous, branched, round Jem, talked, 
eppoliic fightly undulated aves, one of them fmaller than 
its companion. e herbage is moftly vifcid and dow 
and of a ilagreesble odour. The ffamens are faid occafionally 
to a? to 
g 
I. wifi ofus. Vifcid Umbrella-wort. ia Mag. 
434. (Mirabilis vifcofa ; Cavan. Ic. v. 1. 13. t. 19.)— 
Downy and vifcid. Leaves heart-thaped. Panicle race- 
mofe. Stamens longer than the corolla. Native of Peru, 
re) 
various other colle€tions. Root perennial, but ufually treated 
as annual, like the Marvels of Peru. hole plant covered 
with jointed, _ glandular, vifcid hairs. Stem two feet, or 
much more, in height, ere&t, with pofite f{preading 
branches. Leaves wavy, bluntly pointed, thickith, but foft 
and pliant, like thofe of Mirabilis longiflora. Panicle 
branched, vifcid, many-flowered, its branches befet with 
whorls and fhort clutters of {mall purplifh fowers, the lobes 
whofe corolla are ene heart-fhaped, and much fhorter 
han the flamens and Pyle. Calyx of the fruit pendulous, 
ree ne pallid, reticulated with veins. Sced lefs than 
a grain of wheat, with five tuberculated angles, dropping 
out of the calyx when ripe. 
2. O. “(Galyshyme Smooth-leaved Umbrella-wort. Meas 
n. 2. Se a glabrifolia ; one. ne d. 
Native of Peru and New Spain. Cultivated at Madrid, 
Ortega defcribes this as a glaucous plant, with the acrid fla 
vour of a Sedum; glandular and villous when young, but 
nearly {mooth when full-grown. Leaves acute, entire, rough 
with reverfed hairs at the edges, Panicle hairy, forked, co- 
rymbofe. Flowers {mall, purple, in tufts at the top of ‘each 
branch of the panicle. Calya tipped with red. 
3- O. ovatus. Ovate Umbrella-wort. Vahl. n. 3. 
lyxhymenia ovata; Fl, Peruy. v. 1. 45. t. 75. f. b. , 
- Fokad? and vifcid. Leaves ovate. Filower-ftalks terminal, 
forked. Stamens nearly as long asthe corolla, Stem erect. 
—Native of elevated {pots in Peru,—Szem three feet high. 
Plant clothed with jointed, glandular, vifcid hairs. 
ick and veiny, acute, entire, rough-edged. 
forked, with folitary fingle- flowered ftalks. Corolla red, 
twice as large as the ca/yx, till the latter becomes dilated and 
ag aaa as the fruit advances. ea is known only from 
he pa i Peruviana, as well as the two 
oftratus. Proftrate Uaibrlawor. Mage De 4e 
(Chipshymenia proftratas Fl. Peruv. v. 1. 46. EG 
, 
4 5. 
Vahi.}-—Leaves ovate or heart-fhaped, downy. ris 
(Ca- 
ee 
= 
Leaves fi atly pee veiny. 
= 
ranc hes as well ai 
