FRA - 
whith ‘leave no ea of its being diftinct from beth the pre- 
teding, 2 h its {mooth nake -d imbricated leaves afford a 
‘decifive a? 
4. Fe fed ra idles Four-petalled Sea-Heath. 
Nov. Holl. v. 1. 88. t. r14.—Leaves awl-fhaped, flethy, 
dotted, fmeoth, oppofite, fpurred at th e bale. Baas 
The flems are fhrubby, proftrate, apparently fmooth, longer 
than the lait, throwing up numerons fhort, ere¢t 
divided, leafy branches. Leaves oppotite, fo 
ce 
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8 
Be 
feo 
uo a 
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al furrow on the upper fide. J Yoqers terminal, 
folitary, feffile. Segments of the calyx deep, downy at the 
é, four enly in number as well as the pefaés. The _/famens 
gen flowers, for 
though M. La Billardiere gathered them frefh, it appears 
from this and ie inftances, ‘ ‘Tat a deferif't'ons and igures 
anere ili y made from th pecimens after his re- 
aurn to Europe, Their arene eee confers se more 
honour on their author. 
Powdery Sea-Heath. Lirtt. Sp. Pl. 
AT 4. = Brit. 388. Hudf. 138. Sm. Prodr. Fl. Grees 
‘Sibth. v. 1. 243. (Franca maritima quadrifolia annua fupina,. 
chamaelyees — et faciz, flore ex albo purpu 
. Altine maritima fupi 
vi 
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Lewis 
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iS. 
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non. Iit. 164. t. 66.)—Leaves obovate, abrupt, downy 
and powdery beneath.—Native of fea-fh throughout the 
fouth an ft of Euro ey flowerin in ge iilenius and 
Leaves oppofite, two Lira at every joint, nearly 
yate, entire, very ee reyolute, facet an 
green above, down a he powdery beneath. Flowers 
axillary and terminal, pale purple, with rounded crenate a 
san iche erro “ah makes two tp of this, fup- 
iy his 
is a rare inftance in nature que in the natural or- 
der to which it be! ongs, feveral of A genera of which have 
three {tamens in a five-cleft flow 
RANKENSTEIN, in Geo erephy, aes of oo 
in the principality of Munfterburg, on the river Bautze ; 12 
miles S.S.W, of Glatz. N. lat. 51° 25’. E. joe. ioe 
—Alfo; a town of Goa. in the circle of the Upper 
Rhine; 5 miles.S.E.. of Darmitadt.—Alfo, a town of 
France, in the eel of Bont POWNeIES 3 20 miles 
&.E. of Deux Pont 
FRANKENWINHEIM, a town . — in the 
principality of wena Dures 4. miles . of Geroltz- 
oien. - 
FRANKERAU, Ky town of a in the province of 
Ermeland ; 1o miles 8. of Hei 
FRANKFORT. "Ser Pounce oes 
RANKF — a aap of ara in Hancock couns 
Pana T, or. Fran if 
America, i in the county o Philadelphia and 
vania, on the N.E. id 
the 
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Billard; - 
FRA 
iinfle age Oa river, 
Pp an 
er. 
3 containing 94 
fo, a thriving vi lage in Hampfhire county, Virginiag 
feate d ona treek which empties itfelf into Potowmack river ; 
13 miles N.W. of Rumney.—Alfo, the ee cf Pendle. 
ton county, Virginia, fituated on the W e of Potow- 
mack river, Para © a court-houfe, gaol, and about thir« 
ty houfes ; 180.miles N. mo 0, a po 
town, and the metropolis Kentucky, fituated in Franklin 
county, on the N.E. , ntuck » about 
miles from its confluence a the Ohic. Itisa fi 
“FRA 
aromatic gum or refin, anciently burnt in temples, as a _per+ 
fume, an ufed in pharmacy, as an agglutinant and: 
ren ental 
The word is formed from the Latin sei burnt § as 
alluding to its ancient ufe in temples. 
Frankincenfe diltils from incifions mide in a tree calle d 
gion, and the modern m the tree. that produces it, 
er even the place where the tree growsy has been. but httle 
wn 
"The moft common opinion has always been, that it ha 
brought from Arabia Felix, and was found near the c 
Saba j ; wh t Sabeum 3 andyet the name oh 
banum, which it eee alfo bears, a to intima ates, 
that there are of thefe thuriferous or incenfe-bearing trees in 
the Holy-land, near mount Lebanon. And t ravellers ara, 
pofitive that there are others in the a 
No ; 
c 
ar 
Sy 
o the form or kind of the tree 
Pliny ee himfel to fay, that it 
at firft refembles the pear-tree ; then maftichtree ; ; then 
the peak 3 but that in ie it is a oa ne urpen 
mmy refinons fubftance is faid to ooze (pon ly 
from Oe bark of the Juniperus lycia, appearing in drops or 
ee i of a pale poe and fometimes of a reddifh co# 
" Franinanf is ually divided into male and female. 
be cenfe, thus ma pear called alfo oibannag 
(which ae is in a white ie or tears, a little -yellowith, 
of a bitter difagreeable tatte ; en chewed “it promotes 
the of faliva, which nee white. When laid 
coals, or a red-hot iron, it flames and burns with a ftrong and 
not unpleafant {mell. On trituration with water, the greateft 
part diffolves into a milky liquor, which depofits a refinous 
matter, and, being gently inf] poe leaves a.yellow extract, 
retaining the greateft oe imell as well as tafte of the 
ohbanum. Reétified {pirit fle — Aes water 3 nevera 
thelefs it extracts nearly s activ 
This drug has rece ived different appllations aceording to 
its different appearances e fingle tear: ealled fimply 
hae or thus 3 wheat 
lum; and when two are very large, thus feminin 
ral adhere to the bark, dbus corticofum s he { ne nee i 
which rubs off from the tears is denominated | mica thuris 3 
and the coarfer manna thur 
That brought from the Tdes is not near fo sas that 
yom? Arabia or mount Lebanon;.it is fometimes called 
ees of Mocha.; though it be "not = from that 
ity. 
lia it 
ao * 28 
KINCENSE? or fimply ne an odoriferous: 
1 
wo are joined to ches thus a 
if 
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