_  FUS 
eff at the approach of winter ; but, like evergreens, they 
remain upon the branches all winter, and retain, during 
that time, their on fucculence and verdure. Early in the 
{pring innumera offoms pring out around thef 
prickles, adhering es them, and not to the ftem. The blof- 
foms — fucceeded by pods nme the feeds, which 
ripen; a little after Midfummer the feeds harden, 
and ve pods flowly become dry and wither, the prickles to 
which they adhere becoming dry and withered at the fame 
time, and gradually loofen from the ftalk, which {hill con- 
tinues frefh, though it has now attained a woody confiftence. 
Thefe prickles, having now Lena all the funétions that 
in part, at firft ies the 
a fome time, till t 
gradua 
gradually fhaken o 
caufes. Hence it h pe 
top twigs of a whin buth that are green, foft, and fucculent ; 
the flems below being dry and woody, and frequently cover- 
ed with dry prickles, that are not only not = as ay od 
for cattle, but rather hurtful to them, on- ac t of 
the hardnefs ics their confiftence, and tne nefs Of eee 
prickles. n gathering whins, therefore, for food fo 
cattle, they are only the tender top fhoots that are wanted ; 
g 
and the eafieit method of gather ring them that our practice 
has yet difcovered, is to take a forked — in the left hand 
(the readieft thing i is the ac of a tree of a proper fize) 
and a fickle in the right hand (both fade but more efpe- 
cially 1 the right, fhould be armed with {trong alban then 
are intermixed with’ each other, they ftick to the prongs of 
‘the fork, which, after it is as full as it can rene is ene: 
und 
own by a man 
oa with la ange 
urpole, mn “oa are carried hom 
Where the whins ee grown u ood foil, and ae 
mace very vigorous fhoots, they ane he re reaped pretty 
expeditioufly ; 3; but if the foil has been poor, and the fhoots 
fhort, the expence of this operation is very confiderable ; 
and as thefe fhort whins are, th other refpects, of a very in- 
ferior 
ey can be eco. 
by bein ieee: in 
ie manner that has been defcribed in pe ng of furze, 
the labour may not only be much pean but the advantages 
of this winter food be more fully ob 
Some, however, in performing. ‘this butinefs, _ ufe of 
a very ftiff fhort fcythe, which is found to execute the 
work quickly, and in a tolerably perfect cance, ance the 
workman becomes fully sae with the method of 
ufin . 
nhs SA, in the Stalian Mufic, the name of one of the 
mufical notes, frequently alfo called caroma, and by us 
Ali , 
FUSANA, in Geography, a town of Africa, in Tunis ; 
28 miles S. W. of K 
pag aa S, in Botany, derived mane Fufain, ie nee 
] 
e for Euonymus or fpindle-tree, a genus c 
and ae Pa ae MMonoecia, aa natural mi Elagni, 
aff, * 
Conerie charaties Hermaphrodite. Cal. Perianth one-leafed, 
turbinate, half five-cleft (four-cleft, Berg. ); clefts ovate- 
acute, from a fpreadings with the tips gteencats 
FUS8 
fomewhat pelle Cor none. Sta tain. Filaments four, linear, 
grooved in 
into the calyx n near see an 
large, tinny almolei aferior, wide at f; 
what concave, ftriated, gee iLe with four hollowed 
finufes, on on each fide of the germ folitary. Style thick, 
very fhort, fubquadrangular. Stigmas four, obtufe, cru- 
cifor > fall. Per. Drupe 
Pi Cal. &c. as in the hermaphrodite, but the fruit 
ort: 
E “ffntial chara&er. Herm. Cal. five-cleft. Cor. none. Stam. 
erm inferior ; emacs our. Drupe. Mak. Cal. 
&c. of the former. fruit abort; 
Species, 1. J*. Compreffus, { fat. “Raiked F, Linn. Syft. ed 
65. Reich. 4. 330. Ait. H We 3+ 433. 
fem Colpoon. Linn. sal 161. » 250 
poon compreflum. Ber ee ee 
compreffed and anticipital aes ee oppofite, obo- 
vate, blunt with a point, flat, quite entire, fmooth, on fhort 
petioles. Racemes from the axils of the bes erect 
ea fcarcely longer than the leaves. 
of parts in the flowers four or five, 
a Gt involucre at the the germ with five 
glands. According to Juffieu, it is a glaucous fhrub, with 
oppolite branches. The younger does not think it neceffary 
to feparate it from the Thefiums. Juffieu doubts whether 
it may not be more nearly allied to the Rhamni. i 
of the Cape of Good Hope; introduced in 1756 b 
Fy Maffon. It is pene by oe planted early in the 
fummer in a goo my earth, in pots, fet ina glafs-cafe 
or hot bed, fhaded aad Ww oa ay till they have ftruck 
root.. 
FUSARDE, in Architefure, a French word fa an 
aftragal, or {mall convex moulding carved into b 
FUSEADO, in es a tile of Nagles, 4 in eis 
.bria Citra; 1 ae Cofen 
.FUSEE, 5 Horoogy, is a al contrivance for 
equalizing i pow 
nometer, or cons 
tenfion. Whena fieenid weight i is ufed as the 
ing power of ac clock, the cord, gut, or chain, by which it 
is fufpended, is is wound round a cylindrical barrel, that has’ 
not x lea ible variation in its diameter ; 3; on whe h ace 
is 
neceflary for equalizing ie po ie er ch is already unva- 
rying from its own nature. But a clock with fuch a power 
is not portable, or at leaft not convened fo; 
ae of 
rea res to be odifed 2 accor din ng to circumftances, before’ 
it can become a proper fubititute i. a fufpended weight 
acting conftantly, by means hve its Sea with a flow 
ration. 
nately, in” a way t 
the contrivance Yalled the 
e in practic 
clear idea of the nature and due alien of the fufee, . 
without taking into confideration, along with it, the main- 
{pring, its.box, and the chain that conneéts them. Thefe 
indeed 
