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FRA 
Stew. Filaments Fils very f{mall; anthers erect, paral 
diftinad, furrowe ie Germen abortive; ftyle t ead- 
fhaped ; ftigma pe ae 
£ tials Flowers below the male, on the fame plant. Cal, 
Perianth of ee ovate leaves, agen: a fingle flower. 
or. none. Germen ovate, muricated; ityles 
four ; fligmas. Aes oblong. Per. eric. Dru upa dry, eloatied 
with a nn d briftles,“of four cells, with one oblong c 
fed in ea ip 
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fuperior, 
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Male, Common calyx of one leaf, with many 
teeth. Corolla monopetalous, tubular, with five teeth. 
Receptacle naked. 
Female; Calyx oe many leaves, fingle-flowered. Corolla 
none. Styles fo Drupa dry, briltly, of four cells. 
Willd. Hort. Berol. v. 1, 2. 
1. 5. Lam 
—Leav, es doubly “pineal oe ee Net 
It may be found in ai 
owers, .ap- 
pear 2e ea is. perennia mewhat nil leafy. 
ae oy and ciel pint, ipouted eee: bea 
«downy ben - lowers very late, greenith, the 
fembling thofe of an Artenif fa, the female and the Gur 
ve like a Xanthiu 
FP. ambrofi te, “Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. 379. 
t. 860, excluding the fynonyms. 
ritima peruviana major ; Fiort. Reg. Parif. MSS.)—Leaves 
lanceolate, pinnatifid, toothed, with elongated points.— 
Native of Mexico and Peru. arger than the laft, with 
which Cavanilles confounds - it. 
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elongated, and only fimply ep ra pee undivided. 
‘The ity ie Aaistys ee tae oo 
fonnds a part eee ican’ : be only ac 
cidental oo ae sbes 
us is akin on the ene hand to Ambrofia, on ed 
other to oo anthium, its habit and male flowers being moft h 
the former, its fruit refembling the latter ; yet we ‘do ee 
{ee that it can fatisfactorily be referred to either. How far 
the two fpecies of Franferia are permanently diftin& may 
ae of fome doubt, but they appear very different in 
oliage. 
" FRANTSILA, in acts aphy, atown of Sweden, in the 
government of Wiles: s S.E. of Brahefted. 
FRANTZDORYI, a oe af ie in the principality 
of Neiffe ; “four miles N. of Neiff 
FRANTZ ZLUS, . Weseeia in Biography, a’ learned 
= Lutheran divine, was bor e Pecks n the 
He received, the early ae f his education at 
in th rhen he 
had attained his fixty-fourth-year,. He was a confiderable 
writer, chiefly on aes Tubes and on the contro. 
“yerted eer of the day, 
_ FRANZBURG, in Geogr tiphy, 2 eo sf Swedith Pome- 
rae founded, in x 587, 0n the feite of a rich abbey ; 14 miles 
6. 
8.8, W. of Stralfund, . Nat. sq’ 10". E. long.-12° 5 
, FRAPPE;, Fry. ufed fubshantively in ak ba for the firlt 
ote.of a bar silien the door. foot Jeats the time. (See 
. Piivens). aoe French, in p beating time, only mark thee frit 
note or accent of a bar,’ indicate its other portions by 
_ Siferaat motions of the hae 3 as in compolitions where the 
Ambr ofia ar ars 
Cay. Ic. 
(Ambrofia ma- 
FRA 
bar confifts of four: crotchets, the firft, or dow. 
beaten, at the feeond, the h 
and up a ird, 
e of four crotchets they Mlcewife ‘beat ‘the two 
firf, aa life up the hand for the two others 
_FRAPPING, in Sea Language, denotes the a&t of croffing 
and drawing oi owes the eee parts of a tackle 
complication of repes, which had been already ftraightened 
to their utmott extent, refembling the operation of bracing 
up adrum, &c. The frapping increafes the tenfion, and 
adds to the fecurity acquired by the purchafe. Hence 
the cat-harpings are no other than frappings to the ‘fhrouds.. 
Fraprine a Ship, is the act of paffing three, four, or five 
turns of a cable round the hull, or frame of a fhip, in the 
middle, to fupport her in a great 
prehended fhe is not ftrong enough 
efforts of the fea. 
Falconer. 
FRASCARUOLA, in Geography, a town of Italy, in 
the Gcpartment of the Gog gna; three miles N.E. of Valenza. 
AS » or Fre ree an agreeable town, or sane 
village, i in the Campagna 
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cades, and water-works with which the vy ed. 
This $ was the {cite of the ancient eet deftroye a by 
he Romans in 1191, or very near it; and at the diftance of 
famous houfe ; and they ftill perform the fervice-in the Greek. 
eS ta fmall diftance is-the lake of Nemi,, four 
es In pony nie whofe {urrounding hills are feed 
Ww ok tall and fhady trees. In ancient times there was a tem- 
ple here, fac red to Diana. The lake itfelf was called: Specu- 
eh ger nd Lacus pier and is the place mentionéd 
mph, trem. 
bling. for a. children, preffed ‘en © ee 
*¢ Contremuit nemus, et fylvze sori profundz, 
Audit et Trivie longus lac 
a trepidx matres preflere aa pectora natos,”? 
SERA, in Botany, fo called by Walter, in honour 
of of on te friend .Mr. ioe ‘Frafer, nurfery a 
vee £S 
verfia, though the corol! 
ftrongly and. aoa bearded than in S: pereanis, and the 
{tyles united into o 
FRASERBURGH, in Geography, a town in Aberdeen. 
fhire, iituated on the fouth fide of the promontory, called 
Kke innairds 
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