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ANTHERICUM, in botany, a genus of 
plan ts of the Hexandria Monogyuia class and 
order. Cor. six-petalled, spreading, perma- 
nent ; filaments uniform; capsule superior ; 
seeds angular. There are three divisions. 
A. leaves channelled ; filaments mostly 
beardless: B. leaves fleshy; filaments 
bearded : C. stamina dilated in the middle ; 
root bulbous. There are between 50 and 
60 species. 
ANTHERYLIUM, a genus of the Ico- 
sandria Monogynia class and order. Calyx 
inferior, four-parted; petals four; cap- 
sule one-celled, three-valved, many-seeded. 
There is but a single species, a tree found 
at St. Thomas’s Island. 
A NTHISTERIA , in botany, a genus of 
the Polygamia Monoecia class and order. 
Hermaphrodite ; florets sessile, male florets 
pedicelled; calyx four-valved, three or four- 
flowered, coriaceous: corol, glume two- 
valved, awnless ; filaments three ; styles 
two ; stigmata clavate ; seed one. There is 
but a single species. 
ANTHOCEROS, a genus of the Cryp- 
togamia Hepatic*. Male ; six parted or 
entire; antherse three to eight, obovate, in 
the bottom of the calyx. Female ; calyx 
sessile, cylindrical and entire. There are 
four species. 
ANTHOLOMA, in botany, a genus of 
the Polyandria Monogynia class and order. 
Calyx two to four-leaved; cor. cup-shaped; 
many seeded. There is but a single spe- 
cies, a shrub found in Caledonia. 
ANTHGLYZA, in botany, a genus of 
the Triandria Monogynia class and order. 
Corol. tubular, six-cleft, unequal, recurv- 
ed ; capsule inferior. There are six species, 
all found at the Cape. 
ANT1IOSPERMUM, in botany, the 
amber tree, a genus of plants belonging to 
the Tetrandia class and order. It is male 
and female, in different plants, and some 
are hermaphrodites. The androgynous 
flower is of one leaf, with two pistils and 
four stamina, with the gennen below the 
flower. The male flowers are the same 
with these, wanting only the pistils and 
germen. The female flowers have the pis- 
tils and germen, but want the stamina. 
There are three species. 
ANTHOXANTHUM, in botany, a ge- 
nus of the Diandria Digynia class and or- 
der. Gen. char, calyx, glume two-valved, 
one-flowered ; corol, glume two-valved, 
pointed, awned ; seed one. There are 
four species. 
ANTHREMIS, in natural history, a 
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genus of insects of the order Coleoptera. 
Essen, char, antenna; clavate, the club so- 
lid ; feelers unequal, filiform ; jaws mem- 
branaceous, linear, bifid ; lip entire ; head 
hidden under the thorax. There are 13 
species. 
ANTHROPOMORPHA, in the Linn»- 
an system of zoology, a class of animals, re- 
sembling in some degree the human form ; 
the distinguishing characteristic of which is, 
that all the animals comprehended in it 
have four fore teeth in each jaw, and the 
teats are situated on the breast. Besides 
the human species, which stands at the 
head of this class, it likewise comprehends 
the monkey and sloatli kinds. 
ANTHYLLIS, the bladder lotus, in bo- 
tany, a genus of the Diadelphia Decandria 
class of plants, the corolla whereof is pa- 
pilionaceous ; the fruit is a small roundish 
ieguiae, composed of two valves, and con- 
taining one or two seeds. This genus is se- 
parated into the A. herbaceous and B. 
shrubby ; there are of the former 12 spe- 
cies, of the latter nine. 
ANTICHORUS, in botany, a genus of 
the Octandria Monogynia class and order. 
Calyx four-leaved ; petals four ; capsule su- 
perior, subulate, four-celled, four-valved ; 
seeds numerous. There is only one species, 
found in Arabia. 
ANTIDESMA, in botany, a genus of the 
Dioecia Pentandria class of plants, the ca- 
lyx of which is a perianthium, consisting of 
five oblong concave leaves ; there is no co- 
rolla; the fruit is a cylindric berry, con- 
taining one cell ; in which is lodged a sin- 
gle seed. There are three species found in 
the East Indies and China. 
ANTIMONY, in mineralogy, one of the 
metals that is brittle and easily fused. No 
metal has attracted so much of the attention 
of physicians as antimony. One party has 
extolled it as an infallible specific for every 
disease : while another decried it as a most 
virulent poison, which ought to be expunged 
from the list of medicines. Antimony, as 
it occurs under that name in the shops, is a 
natural compound of the metal with sul- 
phur. To obtain it in a metallic state, the 
native sulphuret is to be mixed with two- 
thirds its weight of acidulous tartrite of 
potash, (in the state of crude tartar,) and 
one-third of nitrate of potash deprived of 
its water of crystallization. The mixture 
must be projected by spoonfuls, into a red- 
hot crucible ; and the detonated mass 
poured into an iron mould greased with a 
little fat. The antimony, on account of 
