S 86 AYE 
Seed : one, ovate, comprefled, obtufe.— EJfential Char after. 
Male. Calyx three-parted. Female. Calyx two-leaved; 
ftyles two; feed one. 
Species, i. Axyris amaranthoides, or fimple-fpiked axy- 
ris : leaves ovate, Item erefit, fpike fimple. Leaves rug¬ 
ged ; fruit-bearing branches naked for a long way at the 
bafe. It was cultivated by Mr. Miller in 175S. 
2. Axyris hybridar leaves ovate, Item ere6t, fpikes con¬ 
glomerate. This much refembles the foregoing fort, from 
which however k differs in the fpike of flowers being on 
long peduncles, conglomerate, or directed the fame way, 
twilled, with the fruit-bearing branches crowded clofe to 
the ftem, and the leaves more rough. Pallas fuppofes this 
to be only a variety of the former fort. 
3. Axyris proffrata: leaves obovate, ftem fubdivided, 
flowers capitated. Stem much branched, fix or feven inch¬ 
es high. All thefe are annual Siberian plants. 
Axyris ceratoides. See Diotis. 
AY, adv. [perhaps from aio, Lat.] Yes; an adverb of 
anfwering affirmatively: 
What fay’ll thou ? Wilt thou be of our confort ? 
Say ay, and be the captain of 11s all. Skakefpeare. 
It is a word by which the fenfe is enforced; even j yes, 
certainly ; and more than that: 
Remember it, and let it make thee creft-fall’n; 
Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shakefpeare. 
A y, a town of France, in the department of the Marne, 
and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of Epernay, fi- 
tuated on the Marne : four leagues fouth of Rheims, and 
®ne north-eall of Epernay. 
Ay, or Pu 1.0 Ay, one of the Banda iftands, in the In¬ 
dian Sea, about three leagues in circumference, where the 
Dutch have built a fort. 
AYAMON'TE, a fea-port town of Spain, fituated at 
the mouth of the Guadiana, on the frontiers of Portugal, 
with a good haven, in the gulf of Cadiz, fmall but well 
fortified, and defended by a caftle, on a rock: thirty-four 
miles weft-fouth-weftof Seville. Lat.37.10. N. Ion. 11. 
16. E. Ferro. 
AYBAR', a town of Spain, in Navarre, on the river 
Arragon, one league from Sanguefa. 
AY'BLING, a town of Germany, in Upper Bavaria, 
twenty-fix miles fouth-eaft of Munich. 
AY'CHA, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Bole- 
law, fixteen miles north of Jung-Buntzel. 
AYE, adv. [ auia , Sax.] Always; to eternity; forever. 
it is now rarely ujcd, and only in poetry : 
The foul, though made in time,, furvives for aye-, 
And, thdugh it hath beginning, fees no end. Sir J. Davies. 
Aye, a town of Norway, in the iflandof Shierney. 
AY'EN, a town of France, in the department of the 
Correze, and chief place of a- canton, in the diftridt of 
Brive : fourteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Uzerches. 
AYE'NJA, f. [given in honour of the duke d'Ayen, 
duke and marechal de Noailles, a great promoter of the 
fcience of botany, who had a noble garden at St. Germain 
en Laye.] In botany, a genus of the elafs gynandria,. or¬ 
der pentandria, natural order colunmifene. The generic 
characters are—Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, five-part¬ 
ed ; parts ovate-oblong, acute, coloured in the middle, re¬ 
flex, withering. Corolla: pentapetalous ; petals five, u- 
nired at tire top to the nedtary into a flat ftar; claws ca¬ 
pillary, very long, bowed outward ; bordersobcordate, re- 
fupinate, with a clubbed point at the top turned upward; 
nectary bell-thaped, fitting on a cylindric eredt column, 
fhorter than the calyx ; border five-lobed ; lobes elevated, 
above flattifh with a longitudinal furrow, excavated un¬ 
derneath, and (harp. Stamina: filaments five, very fhort,. 
inferted into the margin of the nedtary, on the top of the 
ribs, betw een the divifions of the border, each bent dow n¬ 
wards archw.ife through a notch at the end of each petal; 
antherre rotindifn, under the borders of the petals. Piftil- 
lum: germ roundifli, five-cornered, at the bottom of the 
A Y L 
nectary ; ftyle cylindric; ftigma obtufe, five-lobed. Pe- 
ricarpium : capfule five-grained, roundilh, muricate, five- 
celled, ten-valved, elaftic. Seeds : folitary, rather oblong, 
gibbous on one fide, angular on the other.-— EJJ'entialCha¬ 
racter. Monogonous. Calyx five-leaved ; petals united 
into a ftar, with long claws; antherce five, under the ftar; 
capfule five-celled. 
Species. 1. Ayenia pufilla, or fmooth ayenia: leaves- 
cordate, fmooth. This has a weak woody ftem, dividing 
into feveral flender branches, and riling from nine inches 
to a foot high. Leaves llightly indented on their edges, 
on pretty long footftalks, of a lucid green, ending in acute 
points, and placed alternately. At the bafe of each foot- 
ftalk, from the fide of the branches, come out two, three, 
or four, flowers, from the fame point, each on a feparate 
flender peduncle. Many of the flowers being abortive, 
Linnaeus fuggefts that they may poflibly be of different 
fexes. Native of Peru, whence the feeds were fent by the 
younger Juffieu to Paris. Mr. Miller received them (about 
the year 1756) from Dr. Monier, intendant of the duke 
d’Ayen’s gardens; and the plants flowered and perfected 
feeds annually in Chelfea-garden. The flowers continue 
in fucceflion on the fame plants from July to winter. 
2. Ayenia tomentofa : leaves ovate-roundilh, tomentofe.- 
Native of South America. 
3. Ayenia magna : leaves cordate, pubefeent;- germ of 
the flowers feflile. An upright ftvrub, five feet high. 
Flowers fmall, herbaceous. Native of Carthagena, anefc 
other places in South America. 
4. Ayenia laevigata: leaves ovate entire, very fmooth y 
germ pedicelled; nedtary ten-cleft, radiated. Native of 
Jamaica. 
Propagation and Culture, Thefe plants are propagated- 
by feeds, fown upon a moderate hot-bed early in the fpring ~ r 
when they come up, and have four leaves, they fhould be 
tranfplanted on a frelh hot-bed to bring them forward 
part of them may be planted in fmall pots-, and the others? 
on the bed: thole in the pots fhould be plunged into a 
hot-bed of tanner’s bark; they muff be fhaded till they 
have taken new root, then they muff have free air admit¬ 
ted to them every day, in proportion to the warmth of the- 
feafon; they require to be frequently watered in warm- 
weather, but they fhould not have it in too great plenty »- 
The plants fhould continue all the fummerinthe hot-bed, 
where they nuift have a good fhare of air; forthofe which 
are fully expofed to the open air will not thrive, and, if> 
they be too much drawn, they do not flower well. The 
plants will live through the winter in a moderate flove 
but, as they perfect their feeds well the firft year, few per- 
fons care to continue the old plants. 
AYER'BA, a town of Spain, in Arragon, on the GaW 
lego, between Saragofa and Jaca. 
AYERBEN’GUI, a town of the ifland of Sumatra*. 
AY'GREEN,/. The fame with Houseleek. 
AYLE ,f. inlaw. See Aile. 
AYLES'BURY, a borough-town in Buckinghamfbire 7 . 
fituated in a pleafant vale, to which.it gives name, abound¬ 
ing with very good corn; and pafture for feeding fheep and 
beafts. Aylefbury was a flrong town in the beginning of 
the Saxon times; and was made a manor royal in the time 
of William the Conqueror, who parcelled it out under this 
odd tenure, that the tenants fhould find litter or ftra-w for 
the king’s bed-chamber three times a-year, if he came 
that way fo often, and provide him three eels' in winter 
and three green geefe in fiimmer. Aylefbury fends two- 
members to parliament. Its market-day is on Saturday,. 
Here the quarter-fellions and Lent aflizes are held. At 
the bottom of the market-fquare (lands the county gaol, a 
very (lately fabric of brick. Here are fix fairs yearly, viz. 
the Friday after the 18th of January, Palm Saturday, the 
8-th of May, the-14th of June, the 25th of September, 
and the uth of October, all for the fale of cattle. Aylef¬ 
bury is feventeen miles fouth-eaft from Buckingham, and 
forty and a half from London. 
AYLES'FORD, lEagLford, Sax. the eagle’s ford.] A 
town 
