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ovate, ilightly-toothed, woolly; peduncles branching. 
This flowers in June, and the feeds ripen in Auguft. The 
whole plant is white: and a native of the fouth of Europe. 
Propagation and Culture. All thefe plants may be pro¬ 
pagated from feeds; thofe of the hardy forts Ihould be 
fown in the fpring, in the place where the plants are to 
remain. They require no other culture, but to thin them 
when they are too clofe, and too keep them clean from 
weeds. The fecond, third, fourth, and fifth, require the 
protection of a green-houfe, where they flower all the 
l'ummer, till late in the autumn, frequently perfecting 
their feeds, by which they may be propagated. The pe¬ 
rennial forts may aifo be propagated by their creeping 
roots. See Leontodon. 
ANDUX'AR, an ancient, large, and populous, city, of 
Andalufia. It has feveral fine buildings, a (trong caftle, 
and is feated on the Guadalquiver, over which there is a 
flately bridge. It vends great quantities of filk, and the 
country abounds in corn, v. ine, oil, honey, &c. It is twen¬ 
ty-five mileseaft of Corduba. Lat.37.55.N- Ion.3.34. W. 
ANEAU' (Bartholomew),a native of Bourgesin France, 
a man of eminent learning in the 16th century, educated 
under Melchior Volmar. He was prot'ellcr at Lyons, 
where he propagated the doctrines of the reformation fe- 
cretly for a long time : but, on the feffival of the holy fa- 
crament 1565, as the proceffion waspaffing on towards the 
college, there was a large ftone thrown from one of the 
windows upon the lioft and prieft who carried it. The 
people, enraged at this, broke into the college, and aflaf- 
finated M. Aneau, whom :hey imagined to have been the 
occafion, and the college itfelf was Ihut up next day by 
order of the city. 
AN'ECDOTE,yi [anzJo]©-, Gr of apriv. and ekM©-, 
publifhed.] A term ufed by fome authors for tlie titles of 
J'ecret hi fan les ; but it more properly denotes a relation of 
detached and interefting particulars. Procopius gives this 
title to a book which he publifhed againft Juftinian and his 
wife Theodora ; and he feems to be the only perfon among 
the ancients who has reprefented princes fuch as they are 
in their domeftic relation. Varillas has publifhed Anec¬ 
dotes of the Houfe of Medicis. 
Anecdotes is alfo an appellation given to fuch works 
of the ancients as have not yet been publifhed. In which 
fenfe, M. Muratori gives the name Anecdota Graca to fe¬ 
veral writings of the Greek fathers, found in the libraries, 
and firfl publifhed by him. F. Martene has given aThe- 
faurus Anecdotarum Novus, in folio, 5 vols. 
ANE'E,y. in commerce, a meafure for grain, ufed in 
fome provinces of France. At Lyons, it fignifies alfo a 
certain quantity of wine, which is the load an afs can car¬ 
ry at once, and which is fixed at eighty Englifh quarts, 
wine-meafure. 
ANEMO'GR APHY,y. and pw } Gr.] The 
defcription of the winds. 
ANEMO'METER,yi [of csvsw©', the wind, and y.erpo^ 
Gr. meafure.] A machine for meafuring the force and 
velocity of the wind. Various machines of this kind have 
been invented at different times, and by different perfons. 
The following by M> - . Martin has been often experienced, 
and found to anfwer the intention. An open frame of 
wood, ABCDEFGHI, is fupported by the fliaft or arbour 
I. In the two crofs-pieces HK, I.M, is moved an hori¬ 
zontal axis QJVI, by means of the four fails, ab , cm, Of, 
gk, expofed to the wind in a proper manner. Upon this 
axis is fitted a cone of wood, MNO; upon which, as the 
fails move round, a weight R, or S, is raifed by a firing 
round its fuperficies, proceeding from the fmaller to the 
larger end NO. Upon this larger end or bale of the cone, 
is fixed a rocket wheel k, in whofe teeth the click X falls, 
to prevent any retrograde motion from the depending 
weight. The ftrnClure of this machine fufficiently (hews 
that it may be accommodated to eftimate the variable forcfi 
of the wind; becaufe the force of the weight will conti¬ 
nually increaf* as the firing advances on the conical fur- 
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face, by ailing at a greater difiance from the axis of mo¬ 
tion; confequently, if fuch a weight be added on the 
fmaller part M, as will juft keep the machine in equip- 
brio in the weakeft wind, 
the weight to be raifed, 
as the wind becomes 
ftronger, will be encrea- 
fed in proportion, and 
the diameter of the cone 
NO may be fo large in 
comparifon to that of 
the fmaller end at M, 
that the ftrongeft wind 
fhall but juft raife the 
weight at the greater 
end. If, for example, 
the diameter of the axis 
be to that of the bafe of 
the cone NO as 1 to 28 ; 
then, if S be a weight of 
one pound at M on the 
axis, it will be equiva¬ 
lent to twenty-eight 
pounds when raifed to 
the greater end : if, there¬ 
fore, when the wind is 
weakeft, it fupports one 
pound on the axis, it 
mult be twenty-eight times as ftrong to raife the weight 
to the bafe of the cone. If therefore a line or fcale of twen¬ 
ty-eight equal parts be drawn on the fide of the cone, 
the ftrength of the wind will be indicated by that number 
on which the firing refts. 
ANE'MONE,y [irom avs^.q, Gr. the wind : becaufe 
the flower is fuppofed not to open except the wind blows ; 
or rather, becaufe it grows in iituations much expofed to 
the wind.] In botany, a genus of the polyandria polygy- 
nia clafs, ranking in the natural order of multifiliqiue. 
The generic characters are—Calyx: none. Corolla: pe¬ 
tals in two or three rows, three in a row, fomewhat oblon<>-. 
Stamina: filaments numerous, capillary, half the length 
of the corolla; antherae twin, ereft. " Piftillum: germ 
numerous, in a head; ftyles acuminate; ftigmas obtufe. 
Pericarpium : none ; receptacle globular or oblong, hol¬ 
lowed and dotted. Seeds: very many, acuminate, retain¬ 
ing the fiyle.— EJfential Character. Calyx none; petals fix 
or nine; feeds many. 
Species. I. Hepatica, with a fubcalyculate flower, r. 
Anemone hepatica, or hepatica : leaves three-lobed, quite 
entire. The leaves of the year before remain ; they arc- 
heart-fitaped, three-lobed, obtufe, fmooth, beneath veined 
in net-work. The bud has generally four outer feales, 
ovate and membranaceous; three inner, concealing the 
leaves and flowers. The flower lies a year completedn all 
its parts within the bud. This plant is aftrirtgent, but 
not in ufe. It is found wild in Sweden abundantly, in 
Denmark, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, and other 
parts of Europe; in woods and among bullies; with blue, 
red, and white, flowers, Angle. It flowers in March. 
There are many varieties of hepatica common in gardens* 
as, 1. Single and double blue. 2. Single and double red 
or peach-coloured. 3. Single and double white. 4. Sin¬ 
gle and double variegated red and white. 5. Single and 
double violet-coloured. 6. With ftriped leaves. Parkin- 
fon mentions a white with red ftamens. Thefe are fome 
of the greateft ornaments of the fpring; the flowers are 
produced in February and March in great plenty, before 
the green leaves appear, and make a very beautiful fi¬ 
gure in the borders of the pleafure-garden, efpecially the 
double forts, which commonly continue a fortnight longer 
in flower than the Angle ones, and the flowers are much 
fairer. 
II. Pulfatillas, with the peduncle involucred, and the 
feeds tailed, 2. Anemone patens, or woolly-leaved ane¬ 
mone : 
