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flowers that rife on double (pikes from the axils of the 
ribs. This fhrub is very common in the lower lands of 
Jamaica. Dr. Houftoun found it at Campeachy. Mr. 
Miller fays itrifes upwards of twenty feet high, and that 
from tlie dried fpecimens which he eceivea he is con¬ 
vinced there are fonts of the trees which bear male flow¬ 
ers. It has a goatilh frnell; it flowers in Atiguft and 
September. 
4. Fagara piperita, or afh-leaved fagara : leaflets cre- 
nate. Stein (hrubby, fcarcely a fathom in height ; 
branches round, prickly, purple ; prickles fcattered, ho¬ 
rizontal ; flowers fmall, white ; capfule wrinkled, onc- 
celled, containing one fmooth black feed. Gartner de¬ 
scribes the capfule as fmall, almoft globular. Ample or 
double, coriaceous, fcabrous on the outfide with callous 
dots; having within a folded elaftic plate the confidence 
of paper, either one or two-celled, and two-valved. It 
lias one globular feed in each cell fixed to the gaping fu¬ 
ture in the middle ; (lightly acuminate and comprefled at 
top, and having, a fmall navel on the'infide in the middle, 
almoft of a bony confidence. In the Japanefe fruit the 
capfules are ufually fimpie, but in tlicfe from China they 
are more frequently double. Loureiro fays that the cap- 
(ule is.four-lobed, and four-celled, and that thefeedsare 
ped uncled, protruded, black and (liining; the bark, leaves 
and fruit, being'aromatic, are frequently ufed in Coups, in- 
ftead of fpice ; the brttifed leave's made into a cataplafm 
with meal of rice, are laidUpon the parts afflicted with 
rheuntatifm, and on buboes; the root, which is woody, 
Viith a corky yellow bark, and a (harp fubaromatic fla¬ 
vour, is warm, diaphoretic and emmenagogue, and is 
much efteemed in interniittenf fever, rheumatifm, &c. 
Native of China, Cochinchina, and Japan ; introduced in 
1773, by Sir James Cockbu'rn, Bart. It flowers in Sep¬ 
tember. 
5. Fagara herrida, or fpiny fagara : leaves pinnate, pin- 
nas, ovate, crenate ; fpines of the branches armed with 
fpinules. This is a fmall upright tree, fmooth in all its 
parts. Native of Japan, where it is called fai katji. 
6. Fagara tragodes, or prickly-leaved fagara : joints 
of the pinnas prickly underneath. A (limb branching", 
almoft ereft, five feet in height. Native of Domingo; 
flowering in February. 
7. Fagara emarginata, or margined fagara : leaves pin- 
rate ; leaflets ovate, emarginate, veined ; racemes termi¬ 
nating, compound ; flowers three-ftamened. The trunk 
of this tree is the lize of the human leg, fometimes be- 
iet with many (liort prickles ; it rifes twenty feet high, 
and its branches are inclined towards the ground ; the 
wood is white, folid, and odoriferous, with a pretty large 
pith ; leaves at the ends of the branches, confifting of two, 
three, or more, pairs of leaflets, without any odd one, op- 
polite, at halt an inch dift.tnce, fmooth, dark green, an 
inch long, and three quarters of an inch broad in the mid¬ 
dle ; flowers white, fmall, like t Ivofe of elder, three-petal- 
led ; fruit round, the fize of black pepper ; feed black, 
fmelling fomewhat like bay-berries ; the (moke of the 
wood in burning is odoriferous, and probably was the fine 
(cent which Columbus found near the Couth Chore of 
Cuba, on his difcovery of that i (1 and. Native of Jamaica 
and other iflands of the Weft Indies.' 
8. Fagara. fpinofa, or thorny fagara : leaves pinnate, 
feffiie, ovate, acuminate, both they and the branches fpiny 
underneath ; flowers three-ftamened. 9 Fagara acumi¬ 
nata, or acuminate fagara : leaves pinnate ; leaflets entire, 
elliptic, acuminate, fnining, coriaceous ; flowers in cymes 
three-ftamened. Natives of Jamaica. 
10. Fagara oftandra, or downy fagara : leaflets tomen- 
to(e. An inelegant tree, frequently more than twenty 
feet in height, abounding in a ba’lfamic glutinous juice, 
much like that of Burferia in its qualities; the wood is 
very .w hite and light ; the natives of fotne of the Weft- 
(ndia i (land s make Caddies with it of one piece; they have 
no pad, and only a Iheep-fkin thrown over them, when 
tuey f;de. Native of Curacoa and the adjacent iflands, 
FAG 
flowering in July and Atigtift. Jacquin, from whom the 
above is taken, named it Elaphrium, from tlie lightnefs of 
the wood, (e>.aepfna.) 
Propagation and Culture . Thefe are tender plants, and 
mult be kept conftantly in the bark ftove ; they may be 
increafedby feeds, and alfo by cuttings properly managed. 
See Zanthoxylum. 
FAGA'GNA, a large borough, in the territory of Fri¬ 
uli, in Maritime Auftrn, and the capital of a diftriCt, 
containing fixteen villages, and 5,400 fouls. 
FA.G-END, f. The end of a web of cloth, generally 
made of coarfer materials. The fringed end of time. 
The refufe, or meaner part of any thing.—In the world’s 
fag-end a nation lies. Papjhaw. 
FA r GERHULT, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Smaland : thirty-five miles north-weft of Calmar. 
FAGIA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Otranto: fix miles eaft-fouth-eaft 
ofTarento. 
FA'GIUS, or vernacularly Bilchlin (Paul), a learned 
German proteftant divine, born at Reinzabern, in the Pa¬ 
latinate, in 1504. When eighteen years of age he went 
for improvement to Strafburg, where he applied himfelf 
with uncommon diligence and fuccefs to the ftudy of the 
Hebrew tongue. When he was twenty-three year's of age, 
he was compelled by the fmallnefs of his income torelin- 
quifti the academic life, and undertook the occupation of 
fchoolmafter at line, an imperial town in Suabia. His 
mind, however, was ftrongly bent on engaging in the 
work of the miniftry ; and with the view of preparing for 
it, when he was more than thirty years of age, he returned 
to Strafburg, w'here for two years he diligently applied 
himfelf to theological ftudies. At length, in 1537, he 
was invited by the fenate of Ifne to undertake the paftoral 
office in that town, and for five years difeharged its duties 
with a high reputation for eloquence and fidelity. The 
plague which raged at Ifne foon extended to Strafburg, 
where Wolfgang Capito fell a facrifice to its ravages. 
The fenate of Strafburg now invited Fagias to become 
his fucceflor ; with which invi'ation he ultimately com¬ 
plied. At Strafburg, Fagius continued in the diligent 
difeharge of the minitterial office, and in publifliing books 
adapted to the promotion of Hebrew learning, until 1546, 
when Frederic II. eleCtor palatine, fent for him to Hei¬ 
delberg, to conduft the meafures proper to bring about a 
reformation of religion in his dominions. But the em¬ 
peror Charles V. having, by his cruel treatment of the 
proteftant divines rendered it impracticable for him to re¬ 
main any longer in fafety at Strafburg, he accepted of an 
invitation from Cranmer, archbifttop of Canterbury, to 
take refuge in England, where-he arrived, together with 
Bucer, in 1549. For fometime thefe illnftrious foreigners 
relided at the palace at Lambeth, whence it was intended 
they (liould proceed to Cambridge, to be employed as 
profeflors, and engaged in completing a new translation of 
the Scriptures, accompanied by a ftiort illuftration. To 
Fagius the care of the Old Teftament was to be com¬ 
mitted. Fie did not live however, any more than his 
colleague, to make any progrefs in that work, but died at 
Cambridge, of a violent fever, in 1550, in the forty-fifth 
year of his age. During the reign of the bigoted Mary, 
his remains, as well as thofe of Bucer, were dug up and 
burnt, after they had been ridiculoufly tried and con¬ 
demned for herefy, when they were beyond the reach of 
any human tribunal. From Fagius’s labours the learned 
•world received the following tranflations from the He¬ 
brew : 1. Tkijbitcs He Ha. 2. Capitula aut Apophihegmaia 
P-atrum , with illuftrations, 1542, 4to. 3. Sententia Mo¬ 
rales Bensyra, with a commentary, 1542, 4to. 4. Tobias 
Hebraicus , 1542, 4to. 5. Pracationes Hcbraica ; and 6. Par- 
vulus TraElatulus , &c. from the work of a Jew converted to 
Chriftianity before the end of the fecond century. He 
was alfo the author of, 7. Breves Annotationes in Targnm, 
Jeu paraplirafim Chaldaicam Onkeli in Pcntatcuc/nim, 1546, fo¬ 
lio. 8. Expofitio Diilionum Hebraicarum literahs'&fmpUxin 
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