FRA 
e fecond was a third of the firft ; but thefe coins have 
been ian difufed 
eal frank, however is {till reta ied as the name 
of a ney of a n this fenfe it is equivalent to a 
ieee or r twenty ee or a ea of.a French crown. See 
EXCHANGE. 
. FRANKENAU, in Geography, a town of Germany, 
jn the principality of Hohenlohe; 12 miles N. of Dinkeli- 
bahl.—Alfo, a towa of Germany, in the principality o 
Heffe ; 24 miles S.W. of Caffel. 
-FRANKENBERG, an — town. of Germany, ‘in 
the circle of Erzgeburg, on eee {chopa; fortified againit 
the Saxons by aaa ; miles N. N.E. of Chemnitz. 
‘ ue 
ee Faaxnesritats a town 
France, in the department of Mont Tonnerre, an nd ch oF 
place of a canton, in the diftrict of Spire, fituated on a 
fertile plain, © on a navigable canal which communicates with 
the ine. It originated with two convents, one for men 
and the other for women; and by the acceflion of fome 
Flemings, ve o, flying from perfecution, fettled here, it 
hecame a flourifhing town: but it felt the miferies of war 
in common with the reft of the Palatinate in the 17t 
See ftu fe ree ae foap, &c. 
the French. It contains three 
churches ona an hafpieal In the town are reckoned 3,235, 
and in the -canton BAe inhabitants, in 17 communes ; 
8 miles 5. of Wo 
: FRANKENFELS, a meals of Aura feated on the 
river Noderspach; 36 miles W. of Vier 
‘ FRANKENHA BUSEN, a town of Ger many, in the 
principality of Secu ence divided into the 
old and new town, fituated on a branch o hes WVipper. 
It cada three churches, and a {chool, w as former- 
ly a Ciftércian convent 5 -with profitable a-works, belong- 
‘miles N. of 1° 16'. 
: fo, a town of Germany, in n the circle 
of Erzgeburg ; ; 8miles N.N.W of Zwichau 
~ RANKE eoueaaie a town o Germany, i in the county, 
innzus in 
memory © of h 
profeffor of oa a anatomy a 
1661, at the age of 71. He pubhithed a als ue of ae 
rith Latin and ove, ailh names, under the tit tle ra 
? which 
equally rare i ufelefs. We augural di 
aes under Hae vee im 1633, b oa on the, 
es of 'T a which are therein highly extolled, and 
mall German ie on the aaa Eigieaia printed at 
Reoftock in 161 19 a his 
Botanical Society of that place. 
him be true, which no one can doubt, he deferved comme- 
5 en. 176. + 234, 
Willd. lov. 2.241. Sm. Fl. Brit. 387. "Mart. Mul. 
Dict. v. 2. Juil. 303. (Franca ; Mich.” Gen 
3 . 23. t. 22 
Nothria; Berg..Cap. 171.)—Clofs and order, Heéxandria 
Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Levu ryllee, Jufl. 
Gen. Cindi ape of one leaf, funnel- 
fhaped, ae lindric rmanent, with 
e De 
fre, ae four, res freading a, at the orifice. Core 
oP. hie 
-Prodr. 
j FRA 
haa five, rarely four, their-claws the: length of the calyx’ , 
mele flat t, roundi Breadi ng. 
ne “an int i 
each 
J 
~ 
wl 
ry 
be 
3 
o 
pp 
Qt 
Q 
or 
py 
me 
‘. 
’ 
5 cds n numerous; ovate, min ne. 
alyx five-cleft, funnel-fhaped. Petals oe or 
five, with 3 a {cale upon each claw. oo three. Capfule 
fuperior, of one cell a . three v: 
1. F. Jevis. Smooth Sea-Hea he inn. Sp. Pl. 473. 
Engl. Bot. t. 205. (Franea maritima fupina faxatilis glauca 
ericoides fempervirens, flore purpureo; Mich. Gen. 23- 
22. f. 1.)—Leaves linear, cluftered, ciliated at the bafe.. 
ooth.— Foun 
ran 
forked, leafy, round, perennial, Cacia or nearly fo,, except: 
the young branches, which are downy. Leaves cluttered, 
on fhort italks, oblong, revolute, pointed, glaucous, {mooth s. 
a ae - — bafe.  Flewers aruae fefile, either in the. 
e ftem or at the ends of 
orks the branches. ey 
eae thote of a a nis in a and? are ufually 
. pink; Micheli fays they are fomet white 
F. Nothria. Thunb. Prod. 58. Wi ‘lld. Sp. Pl. Ve 2s 242 
¢Nothria repens; Berg. Cap. 1 t, f. 2.) 5 is certainly 
the fame er = not even a a though a — of 
the Cape pe. e character of t arp’ 
petals, nee by Willde fa is merely taken fro m Bergin Ss 
ions, which is faulty. He himfelf defcribes them rounded‘ 
and obtufe, as we find them in a Cape fpecimen.. Neither- 
Ean nor Thunberg feems to have known any thing of” 
Frankenia levis, or the latter would {carcely have made of it 
a new {pecies, nor the former a new genu 
. Sp. Pl. 473. Sm 
; Franca maritima  fupina 
multiflora candida, caulibus ‘hirlutis, foliis quaii v 
ens gives them that appearance. They ar om 
the forks of the fem, as well as fom the a . the ae 
and it is only when thofe branches are 
plant is more luxu 
oe are vpresty lat aa Adages difficult of culture.. 
The 4 rubra, fo r fandy heaths and’ 
fea jee js no an imitation "the 
3. F. microphylla. pmailieg| Sea He eath. Cav. Ic. v. 6. 
77+ t. 597. £. 1.—Leaves elliptizal, revolute, . fmooth, imbri- 
cated in four ro tem fmooth. 
volute, naked, Flower: 
litary, feffite Pas "whitifi 3 pate petals dilated ‘and ¢ crenate 
at the extremity 
We know this only by Cavanilles’ defeription and figure, 
7 whic ch 
