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the ternua, in which he has been followed by all onr Bri- 
tifh botanifts. Hence vve may prefume that this plant is 
nothing more than a (tarved variety of the fifth fpecies. 
3. Bidens nodiflora, or fefiile-flowered bidens : leaves 
oblong, quite entire, one-toothed ; (lem dichotomous ; 
flowers folitary, fefiile. This is an annual plant, riling 
with Items eight or nine inches high, roundilh, rough, with 
white hairs, purple at the bafe. Native of the Ea'ft In¬ 
dies. It was cultivated at Eltham, by Sherard, in 1732. 
4. Bidens tenella : leaves linear, peduncles capillary, 
calyxes moftly four-leaved, feeds ereit, five-fold It is 
an annual, and a native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
5. Bidens cernua, or drooping water-hemp-agrimony, or 
bur-rnarygold : leaves lanceolate, ftem-clafping ; flowers 
nodding; feeds eretfl. Root annual. Stem from one to 
two feet high, or more, upright, branched, a little hairy, 
purplifh, dotted with red, round at bottom, ftriated at top ; 
the branches oppofite, and nearly upright. Flowers yel¬ 
low ith green. This flowers a month later than the tripar¬ 
tita, and in this flate has a flrong fmell not very difagree- 
able. Native of rnofi parts of Europe. 
6. Bidens frondofa, or fmooth-flalked bidens : leaves 
pinnate, ferrate, marked with lines, fmooth ; feeds ereft ; 
calyxes leafy ; Hem polifhed. This riles about three feet 
high, fending out many horizontal branches. It grows 
naturally in Virginia, Maryland, and Canada, where it is 
often a trotiblefome weed. 
7. Bidens pilofa, or hairy bidens : leaves pinnate, fome- 
what hairy ; Item with bearded joints ; calyxes witli a Am¬ 
ple involucre ; feeds diverging. Native of America, and 
the ifland of Tongatabou in the South Seas. The Ame¬ 
rican fort was cultivated in 1732 at Eltham, by Sherard. 
8. Bidens bipinnata, or hemlock-leaved bidens: leaves 
bipinnate, galhed ; calyxes involucred ; corollas half-ra¬ 
diated ; feeds diverging. It is an annual plant, a native 
of Virginia, and was cultivated here in 1699. According 
lo Loureiro, it is alfo a native of China and Cochin-China. 
9. Bidens nivea, or fnowy bidens : leaves Ample, cor¬ 
date-ovate, acuminate ; branches trichotomous, ferrate ; 
flowers hemifpberical ; peduncles elongated. Stem two 
feet high, branched very much, bluntly four-cornered, 
upright, fomewhat rugged ; branches oppofite, four-cor¬ 
nered, rugged ; leaves oppofite, nerved, wrinkled, and 
rugged. Native of Jamaica, in elevated paftures, and on 
the fta-coall of the fouthern parts. Mr. Miller lays it 
grows naturally in South Carolina, and at Campeachy. 
10. Bidens verticillata : leaves oblong, entire, lower 
ones entire, upper ones oppofite, flowers verticiiled. Stems 
a (pan long, with alternate leaves on the lower half, and 
oppofite leaves on the upper half. A folitary branch 
fh.orter than the (lem ilfues from each axil of tlie alternate 
leaves, ufually, quite Ample, leafed in the lame manner 
with the (lem. Seeds (lender, comprefled at top, attenua¬ 
ted towards the bale, crowned with two bridles fpreading 
horizontally. Native of Vera Cruz, in South America. 
11. Bidens fcandens: leaves oppofite, ovate, acuminate, 
ferrate; (lem climbing, fhrubby; flowers panicled, ovate. 
This is a weakly-branched Ihrub, generally riling to the 
height of five or fix feet, or more, but requires the flip- 
port of the neighbouring bullies to keep it upright. Stem 
round, and fomewhat rugged ; branches long, round, di¬ 
varicate ; leaves fomewhat angular at the bafe, nerved, 
wrinkled, dark green, fmooth on both lides. Native of 
Jamaica, on the cooler mountains; alfo of Vera Cruz. 
Mr. Miller received it from Carthagena in New Spain. 
12. Bidens bullata, or various-leaved bidens: leaves 
ovate, ferrate ; lower ones oppofite, upper ones ternate, 
the middle larger. Stem upright, two feet high; leaves 
thick; flowers folitary, yellow. Native of America; now 
found wild in Italy. Cultivated in 1759, by Mr. Miller. 
Annual. 
13. Bidens hirfuta : leaves oppofite, ovate, lanceolate, 
entire, tomentofe, hirfute; Item climbing, Ihrubby; pe¬ 
duncles oppofite, diverging, many-flowered. Native of 
Jamaica. Annual. 
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14. Bidens odorata : (lem four-cornered, branching very 
much; leaves connate, bipinnate; pinnules wedge-trifid, 
fmooth ; leeds rugged. Root annual. Stem four feet 
high, with oppofite branches. Native of Mexico. It 
flowered at Madrid in November 1791. 
Pi opagation and Culture. The firfl, lecond, and fifth, 
forts, being common weeds in many parts of Europe, aie 
feldotn cultivated in gardens, but propagate themfelves by 
feeds, in wet fituations. The third, fourth, feventh, and 
twelfth, mtilf be fown upon a moderate hot-bed in the 
fpring, and afterwards treated like other hardy annual 
plains, planting them into the full ground the latter end 
of May. They will flower in June, foon after which the 
plants will decay. The lixth and eighth are eafily propa¬ 
gated by leeds fown in the fpring, in an open fituation ; 
where, il they be permitted to fcatter, the plants will come 
up the following fpring, and-two or three of them may 
be tranfplanted where they are to grow, and after they 
are rooted will require no farther care. Being annual 
plants, they decay foon after the feeds are ripe. The 
other forts are propagated alfo by feeds, which Ihould be 
fown on a hot-bed in the fpring; and, when the plants are 
fit to remove, they mull be each planted into a feparate 
fmall pot, plunged into a frefh hot-bed, and treated as 
other tender plants from the fame countries; in autumn 
they mull be placed in the bark-ftove. 7 hey will moftly 
abide fome years with proper management. See Core¬ 
opsis, Elefhantopus, Spilanthus, Verbesina, 
and Zinnia. 
BIDEN'TAL, adj. [bidens, Lat.] Having two teeth.— 
Ill management of forks is not to be helped, when they 
are only bidcntal. Swift. 
Bidental, f. in Roman antiquity, a place blafted with 
lightning, which w'as'immediately confecrated by an haru- 
fpex, with the lacrifice of a bidens. 'This place was af¬ 
terwards accounted facred, and it was unlawful to enter it 
or to tread upon it; for which reafon it was commonly fur- 
ronnded with a ditch, wall, hedge, or other fence. 
BIDEN'TALES, f. in Roman antiquity, priefts infii- 
tuted to perform certain ceremonies and expiations when 
thunder fell on any place. Their principal office was the 
facrificing a Iheep of two years old, which in Latin is called 
bidens ; from whence the place ftruck with thunder had 
the name of bidcntal. 
BIDEN'TES, f. in middle-age writers, denotes two 
yearlings,; or Iheep of the fecond year. The wool of two 
years-old Iheep, being the firft iheering, was fometimes 
claimed as a heriot to the king, on the death of an abbot. 
Ampng the ancient Romans, the word was extended fur¬ 
ther to any fort of beads ufed for victims,' elpecially thofe 
of that ;tge : whence we meet with fucs bidentes. 
BIDEN'Tl Sl'MILIS. See Siegesbeckia. 
BIDET', J'. A nag or little horfe formerly allowed each 
trooper and dragoon, to convey his baggage, See. 
BIDET'TO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and country of Bari, the fee of a billiop, futfragan of Bari: 
ten milfes fouth-fouth-vveft of Bari, and 118 eaft of Naples. 
B 1 DGOST', or Bigodsez, a town of Pruffia, in Po- 
merelia : fixty-four miles fouth of Dantzig. 
BI'DING,/. Refidence ; habitation.—At Antwerp has 
my conft.ant biding been.' Rowe. 
BPDTS, anciently a city of Sicily, vvhofe ruins are Hill 
to be feen in the territory of Syracufe, about 13 miles to 
the fouth-weft, with a church called 5 . Giovanni di Bidini. 
BID'LOO (Godfrey), a famous anatomical writer, born 
at Amfterdam in 1649. After he had palled through his 
academical (Indies, he applied himfelf to phyfic and ana¬ 
tomy, and took his degree of M. D. He foon got into 
conliderable practice ; in 1688 W3S made profelfor of ana¬ 
tomy at the Hague, which he quitted in 1694 for the pro- 
felTorlhip of anatomy and chirurgery at Leyden ; and after¬ 
wards William III. of England appointed him his phyfi- 
cian, which he accepted on condition of holding his pro- 
fefforfhip. The king died in 1702, and Bidloo returned to 
his former employments, which he had been interrupted 
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