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honour of Sybilla Merian, the celebrated female Dutch 
betanift. 
6. Antholyza Merianella, or dwarf antholyza; corollas 
funnel-lhaped; leaves linear. It is of humbler growth than 
the fifth ; the leaves are rarely more than fix inches long, 
but full as broad as thofe of the fifth, and of a lighter 
green. 
7. Antholyza lucidor: radical leaves with filiform bafe, 
broad-awled, furrowed at top ; Item fimple, leafy, fpiked. 
All the fpecies of antholyza are natives of the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
Propagation and Culture. The antholyzas are propagated 
by offsets, which the bulbous roots lend forth in great 
plenty ; or by feeds, which are fometimes perfected in Eu¬ 
rope. Thefe feeds fhould be fown loon after they are ripe ; 
for, if they are kept out of the ground till the following 
fpring, they often mifcarry, or at leaft remain a year in the 
ground before they grow. If the feeds are fown in pots of 
light earth, and plunged into an old bed of tan, which has 
loft its heat, and fhaded in the middle of the day in hot wea¬ 
ther, the feeds will come up the following winter; there¬ 
fore they mult be kept covered with glaffesto fcreen them 
from cold, otherwife the young plants will be deflroyed. 
Theft may remain in the pots two years, if the plants are 
not too cloft, by which time they will have flrength 
enough to be planted each into a feparate fmall pot filled 
with Tight earth. The time for transplanting is in July or 
Auguit, when their leaves are decayed. In fummer, the 
pots may be placed in the open air, but in winter they mult 
be removed, and placed under a hot-bed frame, for they 
are not very tender; but, where any damp arifes, it is very 
apt to occafion a mouldinefs upon their leaves. The roots 
fhoot up in autumn, and the flowers begin to appear in 
May ; the feeds ripen in Auguft, and foon after their leaves 
and ftalks decay: the roots may then be taken up, and kept 
fix weeks or two months out of the ground, fo that they 
may be eafily tranfported from one country to another at 
that time. Thefe flowers are ornamental when they appear, 
and, being plants which require little culture, deferve a 
place in eveiy good garden. 
ANTHOMA/NIA,/. [from the Greek xvOot, a flower, 
and (.ucna., madnefs.] An extravagant fondnefs for curi¬ 
ous flowers. 
AN'THONY, Gr. a flower.] A proper name of 
men. 
AN'THONY (St.) was born in Egypt in 251, and inhe¬ 
rited a large fortune, which he diftributed among his neigh¬ 
bours and the poor, retired into folitude, founded a reli¬ 
gious order, built many monafteries, and died anno 3^6. 
Many legendary tales are told of his conflicts with evil lpi- 
rits, and of his miracles. There are feven epiftles extant 
attributed to him. St. Anthony is fometimes reprelented 
with a fire by his fide, lignifying that he relieves perfons 
from the inflammation called after his name ; but always 
accompanied by a hog, on account of his having been a 
fwine-herd, and curing all diforders in that animal. 
AN'THONY (Knights of St.), a military order, infti- 
tuted by Albert, duke of Bavaria, Holland, and Zealand, 
when he defrgned to make waragainlt the Turks in 138a. 
The knights wore a collar of gold made in form of a her¬ 
mit's girdle, from which hung a flick cut like a crutch, 
with a little bell, as they are reprefented in St. Anthony’s 
piftures. St. Anthony alfo was the denomination of an 
order of religious founded in France about the year 1095, 
to take care of thofe afflicted with St. Anthony’s fire. 
AN'THONY’! FALLS, a beautiful cataraft in the ri¬ 
ver Miflifippi, ten miles north-weft of the mouth of St. 
Pierre river, which joins the Mifflfippi from the weft, and 
are fituated in about lat. 44.. 50. N. and were fo named by 
father Louis Hennipin, who travelled into thefe parts about 
the year 1 680, and was the firft European ever feen by the 
natives there. Thefe falls are peculiarly fituated, as they 
are approachable without the leaft obftruftion from any in¬ 
tervening hill or precipice ; which cannot be faid, perhaps, 
of any other confiderable fall in the world. The fcene 
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around is exceedingly beautiful. It is not an uninter¬ 
rupted plain where the eye finds no relief, but compofed 
of many gentle afcents, which, in the fpring and fummer, 
are covered with verdure, and interfperfed with little 
groves, that give a pleafing variety to the profperi. At 
a little diftance below the falls is a fmall ifland, about an 
acre and a half, on which grow a great number of oak- 
trees, all the branches of which, able to bear the weight, 
are, in the feafon of incubation, loaded with eagles’ nefts. 
Their inftinclive wifdom has taught them to choofe this 
place, as it is fecure, on account of the rapids above, 
from the attacks either of man or beaft. 
AN'THONY’s FIRE, a name popularly given to the 
eryfipelas. Apparently it took this denomination from 
thofe afilifted with it having made their peculiar applica¬ 
tion to St. Anthony for a cure. It is well known, that 
anciently particular difeafes had their peculiar faints ; 
thus, in the ophthalmia, perfons had recourfe to St. Lucia ; 
in the tooth-ach, to St. Appollonia; in the hydrophobia, 
to St. Hubert, &c. 
AN'THONY’s NOSE, a point of land in the Highlands 
of North America, on Hudfon River, in the ftate of New 
York, from which, to Fort Montgomery on the oppofite 
fide, a large boom and chain was extended in the Ameri¬ 
can war, which coft not lefs than 70,0001. fterling. It 
was partly deflroyed, and partly carried away, by general 
fir Henry Clinton, in October 1777.—Alfo the name 
given to the point of a mountain on the north bank of 
Mohawk River, about thirty miles above Schenectady. 
AN'THONY, Mark. See Antonius. 
ANTHO'RA, f. in botany, the trivial name of a fpe¬ 
cies of aconitum. See Aconitum. 
ANTHORIS'MUS, f. in rhetoric, denotes a contrary 
defcription or definition of a thing from that given by the 
adverfe party. Thus, if the plaintiff urge, that to take 
any thing away from another without his knowledge or 
confent, is a theft; this is called o^o?, or definition. If 
the defendant reply, that to take a thing away from ano¬ 
ther without his knowledge or confent, provided it be 
done with defign to return it to him again, is not theft; 
this is an avOogicr/to;. 
AN'THOS ,y. [Greek,aflower.] Hippocrates uftd this 
W'ord to fignify flowers in general; and, if Galen is right 
in his comment, Hippocrates includes the feeds with the 
flowers. It is alfo ufed for aris Jlos. And when tiled alone 
fignifies the flowers of rofemary ; and is fometimes taken 
for the plant, but improperly. 
ANTHOSPER'MUM,yi [axSor, and wto/xn, Gv. flower- 
feed.] In botany, a genus of the polygamia dioecia, or 
rather dioecia tetrandria, clafs, ranking in the natural order 
of ltellatae. The generic characters are—I. Male. Calyx : 
perianthium one-leafed, conical, quadrifid beyond the 
middle; divifions ovate-oblong, revolute, obtuft, a little 
coloured. Corolla: none, unlefs you fo name the calyx. 
Stamina : filaments four, capillary, ereft, the length of 
the calyx, inferted into the receptacle; antheras twin, ob¬ 
long, four-cornered, obtufe, ereft. II. Female. Calyx 
and corolla: as in the male. Piftillum: germ inferior, 
ovate, four-cornered ; ftyles two, recurved ; ftigma fim¬ 
ple.— Ejj.-ntial CharaEler. Calyx, four-parted ; corolla, 
none; ltamina, four; piftillum, two; germ inferior. Male 
and female in the fame or a diftinct plant. 
Species. 1. Anthofpermum FEthiopicum, or amber-tree : 
leaves poliflied. The male flowers are on one plant, and 
the hermaphrodite flowers on another. The beauty of 
this ftirub is in its fmall evergreen leaves, which grow as 
clofe as heath ; and, being bruifed between the fingers, 
emit a very fragrant odour. 
2. Anthofpermum ciliare: leaves ciliated along the keel 
and edge. Root perennial, woody. Many branches fcarcely 
dividing. Leaves narrow, lanceolate. Flowers axillary, 
feflile. Calyxes four-parted. Stamens four. 
3. Anthofpermum herbaceum: leaves fix, poliflied; 
ftera herbaceous. Flowers axillary. All thefe plants are 
natives of the Cape of Good Hope. Thunberg oblerves, 
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