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putation. It was lucky for him that cardinal Campejus, 
the pope’s legate, and the cardinal de la Mark, bilhop of 
Liege, fpoke in his favour. Their kind offices, however, 
could not procure him his penfion as hiftoriographer, nor 
prevent him from being thrown into prifon at Bruffiels, 
in the year 1531. But he foon regained his liberty, and 
the year following paid a vilit to the archbifliop of Co¬ 
logne, to whom he had dedicated his “ Occult Philolo- 
phy,” and from whom he had received a very obliging- 
letter in return. The inquifitors endeavoured to hinder 
the impreffion of this work when he was about to print a 
fecond edition with emendations and additions; however, 
notwithflandingall their oppolition, he finilhed it in 1533. 
He ftaid at Bonne till 1535 ; when he returned to Lyons, 
he was imprifoned for what he had written againft the mo¬ 
ther of Francis I. but he was foon releafed from his con¬ 
finement, at the delire of feveral perfons, and went to 
Grenoble, where he died the fame year. Agrippa was 
accufed of having been a magician and forcerer, and in 
compact with the devil; but we lhall not offer fuch an af¬ 
front to the underftandirigs of our readers as to aim at 
clearing him from this imputation. However, as Mr. 
Bayle fays, if he was a conjurer, his art availed him lit- 
tie, for lie was often in danger of wanting bread. Be¬ 
tides the works already mentioned of Agrippa, he wrote 
alfo a Commentary upon the Art of Raimund Lulli, and 
a Differtation on Original Sin, w herein he afferts, that tire 
fall of our firft parents was owing to their immodefty and 
lull. We mult not omit mentioning the Key he wrote to 
his “ Occult Philofophy,” which he referved only for his 
friends of the firft rank, and he explained it in a manner 
not very different from the doctrines of the Qmetifts. 
There was an edition of his works, printed at Lyons, 
.1530, in three volumes, Svo. 
AGRIPPINA, daughter of Germanicus, uTter of Ca¬ 
ligula, and mother of Nero ; a woman of wit, but excef- 
fively lewd. She was thrice married, the laft time to 
Claudius her own uncle, whom the poii'oned to make way 
for Nero her fon. Nero afterwards caufed her to be mur¬ 
dered in her chamber, when the bade the executioner Itab 
her firft in the belly that had brought forth fuch a monfter. 
Ag RtrriNA CoL.OtfiAUBiOR.UM, an ancient city, now 
Cologne : fo called from from Agrippina, who had a co¬ 
lony fent thither-at her requelt by the emperor Claudius, 
to honour the place of her birth. See Cologne. 
AGRIPPINIANS, in church-hiftory, the followers 
of Agrippinas bifhop of Carthage, in the third century, 
who firft introduced and defended the practice of rebap- 
tizaiion. 
AGROM, a difeafe frequent in Bengal and other parts 
of the Indies, wherein the tongue chapsand cleaves in fe¬ 
veral places, being extremely rough withal, and forne- 
times covered with white fpots. The Indians are very 
fearful of this difeafe, which they attribute to extreme 
heat of the ftomach. Their remedy is, to drink fome cha¬ 
lybeate liquors, or the juice of mint. 
AGROSTEMMA, /. [xypov dhy.ux, the garland of 
the field.] In botany, a genus of the decandria pentagynia 
clafs, ranking in the natural order of caryophyllei. The 
generic characters are—Calyx : perianth one-leaved, co¬ 
riaceous, tubulous, five-toothed, permanent. Corolla : 
petals five ; claws the length of the tube of the calyx: 
border fpreading, obtufe. Stamina: filaments awl-Iha- 
ped, five alternately later than the other five, inferted in¬ 
to each claw of the petals. Antherae fimple. Piftilhim : 
germ ovate. Styles, filiform, erect, the length of the fta- 
mens. Stigmas, fimple. Pericarpium: capfule oblong- 
ovate, covered, one-celled, five-valved. Seeds: very 
many, kidney-fhaped, dotted. Receptacles: free, as ma¬ 
ny as feeds ; the interior ones gradually longer.— F.Jfcntial 
CliaraElcr. Calyx, one-leaved, coriaceous. Petals, five, 
clawed; border obtufe, undivided. Capfule, one-celled. 
Species. 1. Agroltemma githago, corn-campion, or 
cockle: hirfute, calyx longer than the corolla, petals en¬ 
tire or flightly emarginate, and naked. Cockle is acom- 
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mon weed in corn-fields, enlivening them at the expence 
of the carelefs hufbandman, along w : ith poppy and blue¬ 
bottle ; and flowering in June or July. 
2. Agroltemma coronaria, or rofe-campion : tomentofe, 
leaves ovate-lanceolate, petals flightly emarginate, crown¬ 
ed, ferrate. This fpecies is a native of Italy, the Valais, 
and Siberia, and is biennial. The Angle rofe-campion has 
been long an inhabitant of the Englifh gardens, whereby, 
its feed having fcattered, it is become a kind of weed. 
There are three varieties of this plant, one with deep red, 
another with flelh-coloured, and a third with white, flow¬ 
ers, but thefe are of a fmall efteem; for the double rofe- 
campion, being a fine flower, has turned the others out of 
molt good gardens. 
3. Agroltemma flos jovis, or umbellate rofe-campion: 
tomentofe, petals emarginate, flow’ers in a corymb. 
This flowers in July, and the feeds ripen in Septem¬ 
ber. It grows naturally on the Svvifs and Piedmontefe 
mountains, and in the Palatinate. 
4. Agroltemma coeli rofa, or fmooth-campion: fmooth, 
leaves linear-lanceolate, petals emarginate, crowned. It 
is a native of Italy, Sicily, and the Levant; and, being a 
plant of little beauty, is only preferved in botanic gardens 
for the fake of variety. 
Propagation and Culture. The Angle rofe-campions pro¬ 
pagate fall enough by their feeds, and come up better 
front felf-foWn leed than when they are fown by hand. 
The variety with double flowers, never producing any 
feeds, is propagated by parting the roots; the bell time 
for this is in autumn, after the flowers are pall; and, in 
doing this, every headwhich can be flipped off with roots 
fliould be parted. Thefe mult be planted'in a border of 
frelh undunged earth, at the diftance of fix inches one 
from the other, obferving to water them gently until 
they have taken root; after which they will require no 
more, for much wet is very injurious to them; as is alfo 
dung. In this border they may remain until fpritig, when 
they fliould be removed into the borders of the flower- 
garden, where they will be very ornamental during the 
time of flowering, which is July and Aug'uft.—The um¬ 
bellate rofe-campion mud have a fliady lituation, and will 
thrive beft in a moift foil. 
AGROST 1 S, f. a field.] In botany, a genus of 
the tryandria digynia clafs, of the natural order of grami- 
na or graffes. The generic charadlers are—Calyx : a one- 
flowered, bivalve, acuminate glume. Corolla: bivalve, 
acuminate, one valve larger than the other. Stamina; 
filaments longer than the corolla, with forked antherae. 
Piftillum: germ roundifti; ftyles reflex, villous, with 
ftigmas longitudinally liifpid. Pericarpium : corolla grow¬ 
ing to the feed, not gaping. Seed: roundifli, pointed at 
both ends, the corolla adhering clofely to it.— EJfential 
CharaEler. Calyx, bivalve,, one-flowered, a little lef$ 
than the corolla. Stigmas, longitudinally hifpid. 
Description. It is well obferved by Dr. Stokes, that this 
is an artificial genus; that fome of the fpecies have the 
ftruiture of Bromus and others of Avena; and, that in 
general they are very ill afeertained. The abfence or 
prefence of the awn in the corolla, which is fixed upon 
,as a primary mark of diftindfion, is inconftant; and there¬ 
fore he recommends particular attention to be paid to the 
open or clofed ftate in which the valves of the calyx are 
found, immediately after the (hedding of the pollen and 
the ripening of the feed ; and alfo whether the flowers 
are fcattered or cindered. Some of the fpecies are refer¬ 
red by Swartz to andropogon ; and of others lie has form¬ 
ed a new genus under the name of chloris. 
Species. : I. Awned. t. Agroftis fpica venti, or filky 
bent-grafs: the outer petal has a very long ftiff awn; the 
panicle is fpreading. In this fpecies the leaves are from a, 
line and half to three lines in breadth. Panicle very large, 
enormoufly many-flowered, often nodding, green when 
young, purple when ripe. Annual, and frequent in fan- 
dy corn-fields, flowering from June to Auguft. 
2. Agroftis interrupta, or interrupted-fpike bent-grafs : 
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