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Propagation and Culture. The firft and third nut ft be 
railed from feeds on a hot-bed in the fpring, and after¬ 
wards removed to another hot-bed to bring them forward. 
When the plants have acquired (Length, they /hould be 
tranfplanted into pots filled with rich light earth, and 
1 placed under a frame, obferving to /hade them till they 
have taken frefli root; then they /hould be placed in a 
-glafs cafe or (love to ripen their feeds, for the plants are 
too tender to thrive in the open air in this country, unlefs 
the fuminer fltould prove very warm. The fecorid fort, 
however, will perfeff its feeds in the open air, if the plants 
be raifed on a hot-bed in the fpring, and planted in a warm 
border. The other fpecies are flove-plants. 
AM'Ml,yi [from fand] In botany, a genus of 
the pentandria digynia clafs, ranking in the natural order 
of umbellatae or umbclliferae. The generic characters are 
—Calyx : v.niverfal umbel manifold, frequently of fifty 
rays ; partial fhort, crowded; unrver/al involucre of 
many linear, pinnatifid, acute, leaflets, fcarcely the length 
of the umbel ; partial many-leaved; leaflets linear, acute, 
Ample, fhortev than its umbellet. Proper perianthium 
fcarcely apparent. Corolla: univerfal uniform, all the 
flofcules fertile; proper of five inflex, heart-fhaped pe¬ 
tals, of unequal flze in the ray ; almoft in the middle of 
the difk. Stamina : filaments capillary ; anthene roundifli. 
Piftillum : germ inferior; ftyles reflex; ftigmas obtufe. 
Pericarpium: none. Fruit roundifli, fmootb, fmall, 
/freaked, bipartite. Seeds : two, convex and flreaked on 
one fide ; flat on the other.— EJmtial CharaEler. Involu¬ 
cre, pinnatifid. Corolla, radiate; all hermaphrodite. 
Fruit, fmcoth. 
Species, i. Arnmi majus, or common bifliop’s weed : 
lower leaves pinnate, lanceolate, ferrate ; upper ones mul¬ 
tifid, linear. The firft fort is annual, and grows in vine¬ 
yards and fields in the fouthern parts of Europe, and in 
the eafl. 
2. Amfrii copticunl : leaves fuper-decompound, linear; 
'feeds nuiricate. Found in Egypt by For/kahl. Annual. 
3. Ammi glaucifolium, or perennial bifliop’s-weed : 
firbdivi/ibns Of all the leaves lanceolate: This has tile 
appearance of being only a variety of tire firft fpecies. It 
is annual, as that is. The (tern is from one to two feet 
high, hard, fmooth, fcarcely grooved, with feveral up¬ 
right branches at top, each fupported by a fmall fertile 
leaf. It is a native of the fouth of France. Miller de- 
icribes it as a perennial plant, which is preferred in botanic 
gardens for variety ; but, having little beauty, is rarely ad¬ 
mitted into other gardens.- 
Propagation and Culture. This plant is propagated by 
feeds, which /hould be fown in autumn in the place where 
they are to remain : and in the fpring, the. ground fliould 
be hoed to cut up the weeds, and alfo to thin the plants in 
the fame manner as is praftifed'for carrots, leaving them 
four or five inches afunder : or, if the ground is good 
Where they grow, they muft be left at leart fix inches, for 
they will grow large and cover the ground : after this they 
will require no farther care, but to keep them clean from 
weeds. In June they will flower, and their feeds will 
ripen in Awguft, which fliould be gathered as they ripen, 
otherwife they will foon fcatter. Thefe feeds are n/ed in 
medicine, and may be had in plenty with this management; 
for this plant will grow in any iituation that is open, but 
thrives bed oh light fandy land. When the feeds are fown 
in the fpriiigthey feldom come up the fame year; and, if they 
ihould, thole plants will be 'weak, and produce few feeds. 
Ammi, f . in botany. See Bunium, Cicuta, Se- 
■ seli, Sison, and Sum, 
AMMIA'NUS (Marcellintis), a Grecian foldier, was 
born at Antioch, and flouflifhed under Conftantius and the 
preceding emperors as late as TheOdofms. He fervpd 
under Julian m the eafl ; an’dwVrote in Latin an mterefting 
hiftory, from the reign of Nerva to the death of Valens, 
in thirty-one books ; of which only eighteen feinain. 
Though a Pagan, he fpeaks with candour and moderation 
•6f the Chflftian religion. He died about the year 396. 
■ Vox. I. No. 30. 
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The beft edition of his hiflory is that of Groiiovius, in 
1(593. 
AMMTRA'TO (Scipio), an eminent Italian hiftorian, 
born at Lecca in Naples in 1531. After travelling over 
great part of Italy, be was engaged by the great duke of 
Tufcany to write The Hiftory of Florence ; for which he 
was prefented to a canonry in the cathedral there. He 
wrote other works while in this ftation ; and died in 1600. 
AMMISHAD'DAI, Heb. i. e. the people of 
the Almighty.] A prince of the tribe of Dan. 
AMMOCHO'SI A,f. A remedy for drying the body, by 
covering it with hot fand, or fait, which is preferable. ■ 
AMMOCHRY'SOS, [from aap.o?, fand, and ygvuo^, 
gold.] A name given to a /lone very common in Germany, 
and feeming to be compofed of a golden fand. It is of a 
yellow gold-like colour, and its particles are very gloffy, 
being all fragments of a coloured talc. It is u/ually fo 
foft as to be ea/ily rubbed to a powder, and is ufed only as 
land to ftrew over writing. The Germans call it kat.zen- 
gold. There is another kind of it lefs common, but much 
more beautiful, con/ifling of the fame fort of gloffy fpa-n- 
gles, but of a bright red colour, like Vermillion. 
AMMO'DYTES, or Sand Eel, in ichthyology, a g'e- 
nus of fifties belonging to the order of apodes. This fi/h 
refembles an eel, and feldom exceeds a foot in length. 
The head of the ammodytes is compreffed, and narrower 
than the body ; the upper jaw is larger than the under ; 
the body is cylindrical, vvith feales hardly perceptible. 
There is but one fpecies of the ammodytes, viz. the to- 
bianus, or launce, a native of Europe. This fifh gathers 
itfelf into a circle, and pierces the fand with its head in the 
centre. It is found in mod of our fandy /bores during the 
fuminer months. They are commonly ufed as baits tor 
other fi/h, but they are alfo very delicate eating. Thefe 
fi/h are found in the ftomach of the porpefs ; an argument 
that the laft roots up the fand vvith its nofe, as hogs do the 
ground. 
AMMOI'DES, f . in botany. See Seseli. 
AM'MON, [pey Heb. i. e. the fon of my people.] the 
fon of Lot. He was the father of the Ammonites, and 
dwelt to the eafl of the Dead Sea, in the mountains of 
Gilead. 
Ammon, anciently a city of Marmarica. Arian calls 
it a place, -not a city, in which flood the temple of Jupiter 
Ammon, round which there was'nothing but fandy waftes. 
Diodorus Siculus fays, That the diftrict where the temple 
flood, though furrOunded with deferts, was watered by 
dews which fell no where elfe in.all that country. It was 
agreeably adorned vvith fruitful trees and fprings, and full 
ofviilages. In the middle flood the acropolis or citadel, 
encompafled with a triple, wall ; the firft and inmoft' of 
which contained the palace ; the others the apartments of 
the women, the relations and children, as al/o the temple 
of'the god, and the facred fountain for luftrations. With¬ 
out the acropolis flood, at no great diftance, another temple 
of AnimOn, /haded bv a number of tall trees : near which 
there was a fountain, called that of the lun, or Solis Fons, 
becaufe fubjeCt to extraordinary changes according to the 
time of the day ; morning and evening warm, at noon cold, 
at midnight extremely hot. Flere a kind of toffil. /alt was 
laid to be dug out of the earth in large oblong pieces, 
as tranfpareilt as chryftal. If was faid to be a prefent wor¬ 
thy of kings, and ufed by the Egyptians in then: fkcrifices. 
From this our fal ammoniac is thought by fame to have 
taken its name. 
Ammon, or Hammon, in heathen mythology the name 
of the Egyptian Jupiter, wor/hipped under the figure of 
aram. Bacchus having fubdued Alia, and palling with his 
army through the deferts Of Africa, was in great want of 
water: Jupiter, his father, affuvning the ftiape of a ram, 
led him to a fountain, where he refre/hed himfelf and 
his army ; in gratitude for which favour, Bacchus built 
there a temple to Jupiter, under the title-of Ammon, from 
the Greek ap.px'S-, which /ignifie-s fand, ■ alluding to the 
fandy defert ‘Where -it was built-. In this temple was an 
6 F . oracle > 
