FUM 
drawings of érnamental plants, oe raaeeed on ap 
igure is given o he feventh volume of 
the Amenitates Academica from a seer in the — 
ei the orily one we have ever met with in col- 
leAion, A very elegant Siberian {pecies has been’ ignorantly 
called Latibonag in the Englith ae and is figured 
Mr. Ande epofitory. This has moch fmaller 
flower ets a ce than the true oné, but ‘deferves cultivation, 
as it thrives well in peat earth in the open ground, and blof- 
fing abundantly. The American F. fempervirens, eonfpi- 
euous for.its glaucous leaves, and red and yellow corolla, is 
alfo a very pretty oe plant 
1A, in oh — 1g comprehends plants of the 
paaeagate: ed low-flowery peveynial kind; of which the 
fj moftly eulaaeed are, ae eae ftalked fumitory 
(F. ein ; the as fumitory (F.f*mpervirens) ; 
the yellow seven ved 
fumitory (F. capno 
Thefe tere are aeeae of fituations in the flower- 
Barden, and different aa teria of ornamented grounds, 
the fore-parts of clumps, borders, &c. 
Method of Culture. “Thele a mutt . raifed in Hg 
ent ways according to the kinds. ‘The firft fort i 
ay increafed by planting the off-fets aiea from the 
foots in a light foil where ihe fituation is rather fhady, in the 
ny, part of the autumn, as foon as the ° id ftems begin: to de. 
way. The 
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All the other forts are capable of. being “raifed by eae 
the well-ripened feeds in fituations where the plants are to 
grow. They afterwards only require to he kept perfectly 
clean from w 
the Mate ria Medica, was He the ancients 
? becaite it was thought to be peculiarly 
ufeful in ditynefe of fight, and other difeales o 
"The leaves, which-are the part of the plant dire&ted fo 
dicinal ufe by the-Edinburgh college, are extremely fea 
lent, an 
faline taite. Fum 
ous in opening obftruétions, aad infar Gti 
the vifcera, par&: zplarly. thofe of the hepatic fyftem ; it is alfo 
highly comm ended for its power of correéting a {corbutic 
ahd acrimonious a of a — an meh Arai been 
employed in various cutan difea i 
ién taken 
Prete ere dofee i it proves diuretic and paces efeccially 
the juice, which may be mixed with bine Me and ufed as a 
mtnon Stink. Dr. 
ono of the tres is ufed as a. aoe 
fe yerhove » freciten and clear the = Wo a 
AY, ia Geography, a town of Franc eae. 
fiartment of the Ardennes, and chief place. ofa pee vee in the 
@efiri& of Rocroy. The place contains +740, and the can- 
tor 6 iiliabitants, ona territory of 240 kiliometres in 
ne  infufio 
nine communes. ‘Fhe principal article of its trade is lates, 
of. Magra the lere are quatries near the town. N. lat. 50°. E. 
Tong. 4° 
Foi, se i the Querimba iflands in the Indian 
si Se lat. 
tea) ; and the watered f 
ave no remarkable {me il, but a bitter, fomewhat rienc 
ito 
FUM 
FUMEL, a town of France, inthe department of the 
Lot and Garonne, and chief place of a canton in the diftriét 
of Villeneuve-d’-Agen, g miles E.S.E. of Montflaiiquin, 
The place ¢ontains 2079, and the canton ed ancien 
ona territory of 1674 oo in 8 comm 
FUMEN, a town of Peéfia, in the province oe Ghilan ; 
io miles N.W. of Refhd, 
MET, aterm ufed amorig fportimen for the ordure 
or dung of harts; othetwife called few 
IGATION, in Medicine, ne diffufion of various 
serene . the form of vapour or gas, witha view to cor« 
» when vitiated a the hae tient of animal 
and tegetable mattet, or by contagic 
fis t has Bee ae a “ation a fetid and of-. 
are efi = che os were in the habit of 
plague in London, Marfeill 
Cities hc enveloped i ina clond 0 
eka but in London a great inctecafe in the number 
deat ok place on the might following ; and at Marfeillesy 
the hittorian pee this {moke augmented the natural 
eat o maté and feafon, and feeméd : increafe the 
activity of the area (Papon, de la Pefte, &c. tom. i. 
The buraing of wood, Tides’, eroaue: es an acids 
been hence denominated the 
But M. ‘Gh series 
of three truffes of ftraw in thé a prifon, in a mo: 
pierre offenfive condition, did not remove the en 
{mell. (Traité des Moyens de definfeéter I’ Air, p. 12 
to the bur 
BF 
ao 
ar] 
° 
as 
ea is the fulphureous 
acid gas, or volatile vitriolic acid of the old chemitts 5 and 
s efficacy in the defirudion of et n has been long 
ab t ase even in f all quantey it affect the 
d ther tration: 
of nitre was tried by Dr. Carmichael Smyth the hofpi- 
tal wards at Wisicheiter, upon the notion that Ri¢totss ac = 
