726 BAR. 
infulting, where they think they fliall meet with no oppo¬ 
sition, are rarely or ever endowed with a true generous cou¬ 
rage ; but are generally cowards and piifillanimous beings, 
who.dare hardly look a man of honour in the face. 
To Bark, v. a. To drip trees of their bark.—The fe¬ 
vered penalties- ought to be put upon barking any tree that 
is not felled. Temple. 
Bark-bared, adj. [from bark and bare.'] Stripped of 
the bark.—Excorticated and bark-bared trees may be pre- 
ferved by nourifhing up a (hoot from the foot, or below 
the dripped place, cutting the body of the tree doping off 
a little above the (hoot, and it will heal, and be covered 
with bark. Mortimer. < 
BARK'ARY,/. \_barkaria, corticulus. ] A tan-ltoufe or 
place to keep bark in for theufe of tanners. 
BARK'ER, f. One that barks or clamours.—What 
hath he done more than a bafe cur? barked and made a 
noife ? But they are rather enemies of my fame than me, 
ihefe barkers. Ben Jonfon. —[From bark of trees.] One 
that is employed in dripping trees. 
BAR'KING, a pleafant town in the county of Effex, 
fituated on a creek in the river Rothin, to which it gives 
name, near the Thames, from whence goods are "brought 
up to tire quay. It has a weekly market held on Saturday; 
five.miles fouth-wed of Romford, eleven fouth of Epping, • 
and feven ead of London. 
Barking of Trees,/. The peeling off the rind or 
bark. This mud be done, in our climate, in-the month 
of May, becaufe at that time the Cap of the tree fepanates- 
the bark from the wood. It would be very difficult to 
perform it at any other time of the year, unlefs the fea- 
fon was extremely wet and rainy ; for heat and drynefs 
are a very great hindrance to it. By the old French laws, 
all dealers were forbid to bark their wood while growing, 
on the penalty-of 500 livres. This law was the refill t of 
ignorance ; it being now found, that barking of trees, and 
letting them die, increafes the drength of the timber. 
BARK'LEY, [ Beorcean , probably of beorce, a beech- 
tree, and lan for leag, a field, Sax. by reafon of plenty of 
beech-trees growing there ] A town in Gloucederlhire. 
BAR'KOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw, forty-eight miles wed-norrh-wed of Braclaw'. 
BAR'KU, oi'Barraku, a town of Africa, in the coun¬ 
try of Agouna, where the Dutch had a fort. 
Barku (Little), a town of Africa, a league and a half 
from Barku. 
BARK'WAY, a fmall town, in the county of Herts : 
thirty-four miles and a half north of London, and dxteen 
and a halffouth of Cambridge. 
BARK'Y, adj. Confiding of bark ; containing bark.— 
Ivy fo enrings the barky fingers o( the elm. Shakefpcare. 
BARLA'AMITES, in Church Hidory, the followers 
of a Calabrian monk, afterwards bidiop of Ernont, the 
great opponent of Gregory Palarna and the Helychaftte. 
The Barlaamites are the fame with thofe otherwife deno¬ 
minated Acindynites, 
BARL.AL'US (Gafpar), profeffor of philofophy at Am- 
fterdam, and one of the bed Latin poets of the 17th cen¬ 
tury. There was fcarcely any thing great that happened in 
the world, while l\i lived, but he made a pompous elegy 
upon it, when reafons of date were no obdacle to the pub¬ 
lication. He was a great defender of Arminius; and prov¬ 
ed his abilities in bidory by bis relation of what paffed in 
Bradl during the government of count Maurice of Naffau, 
publidied 1647. He died the year following. 
B ARLA 1 MONT"', or Barlemont, a town of the Ne¬ 
therlands, in the county -of Hainault: four leagues (billh¬ 
ead of Le Q^efnoy. 
BAR'LAND (Adrian), a famous Latin commentator, 
hidorian, and chronologer, of Zealand ; died in 1542. 
BARLEN'GA, a fmall idand, the principal of a cluf- 
terin tire Atlantic Ocean, about three leaguesfrom thewed 
acoad of Portugal; with a fortrefs : thefe i(lands are called 
Borl'ings by the Englidi feamen, and the greater part mere¬ 
ly rocks. Lari 39. 20. N. Ion, 9. j. E. Ferre. 
BAR 
B ARI.E'RIA,/ [This name was given by Plumier in 
honour of the revrend Janies Barrelier, a dominician and 
M. D. of Paris, who travelled from France into Sprain 
and Italy, and died, aged dxty-eight on the 17th of Sep¬ 
tember 1673.] In botany, a genus of the clals didynamia, 
order angiofpermia, natural order perfonatae. The gene¬ 
ric characters are—Calyx : perianthium four-parted/per- 
manent; two oppodte leaflets larger. Corolla : "monope- 
talous, funnel-form, quinquefid, fub-equal ; the fifth di- 
vifion deeper. Stamina : filaments four, filiform ; two 
very fliort, capillary ; anthene, the upper oblong, the 
lower withered. Pifiillum : germ ovate; flyle filiform, 
th.e length of the fiatnens; digma bifid.. Pericarpium : 
capfule acute, flat-quadrangular, two-celled, two-valved, 
gaping eladically at the claws ; partition contrary. Seeds 
two, compreffed, roundilh. ObJ'ervation: A11 intermediate 
genus between ruellia and jujlicia.—EJfcntial CharaEler. 
Calyx four-parted; datnina two, far lefs than the others; 
capfule quad/angular, bilocular, bivalvular, elaftic, with¬ 
out the claws ; feeds two. 
Species. 1. Barieria longifolia : ("pines of the whorls 
fixfold; leaves end form, very long, fcabr-ous. Stem blunt¬ 
ly quadrangular, et'efl. Native of.the Ead Indies. In¬ 
troduced in 1781, by Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart. 
2. Barieria folanifolia: fpines axillary, leaves lanceolate, 
toothietted. This rifes with upright fquare dalks three 
feet high ;'and has two oblong entire leaves at every joint. 
Thefe joints are about three inches from each other. The 
flowers are blue, and have more of the form of the labiate 
flowers than any of the other fpecies. Miller received it 
from Panama. 
3. Barieria Hydrix : fpines axillary, twin dimple, leaves 
quite entire, lanceolate-ovate. This is carefully to be fe- 
parated from the next fpecies. The dem is wand-like, 
not firm ; the branches are rather quadrangular than round: 
the leaves fmooth on both (ides. Native of the Ead Indies. 
4. Barieria Prionitis: fpines axillary, pedate, four¬ 
fold ; leaves quite entire, lanceolate-ovate. Native of the 
Ead Indies. 
5. Barieria buxifolia: fpines axillary, oppodte, folitary; 
leaves roundidi, quite entire. This has lhrubby flalks, 
five or fix feet high, with drong fpines under the leaves. 
Native of Jamaica, and the Ead Indies. 
6. Barieria nobtiflora: fpines axillary, branching; leaves 
lanceolate, quite entire, cufpidated.; bractes ovate, fca- 
riofe; tube elongated. Obferved near Tanjour, in the 
Ead Indies, by Koenig. 
7. Barieria cridata : leaves oblong, quite entire ; two 
leaflets of the calyx broader, ciliated, and two linear, acute. 
Stem round. 
8. Barieria coccinea : unarmed, leaves ovate, toothiet¬ 
ted, petioled. Stems fmooth, four feet high. Flowers 
fcarlet, appearing from July to September, and fucceeded 
by fliort pods inclofing flat feeds. Native of South America. 
9. Barieria pungeris : unarmed, leaves ovate, acute, 
pungent; brafles ciliated. Found at the Cape of Good 
Hope by Thunberg. 
10. Barieria longiflora : unarmed, leaves ovate, fllkv, 
brabtes cordate, fcariofe ; corollas very long. This is an 
underflmib, with the branches generally oppodte, fllky, 
and round. Obferved on the mountain of St. Thomas, in 
Malabar, by Koenig. 
11. Barieria piocumbens : unarmed; leaves lanceolate,, 
crenate, hifpid ; heads terminating. This alfo is an tin- 
derdirub, with yellow flowers. Native of China, near 
Canton. 
Propagation and Culture. The barlerias, being all na¬ 
tives either of the Ead Indies or South America, require 
the protection of the bark dove. The fecond, fourth, fifth, 
and eighth, were cultivated by Mr. Miller, but the others 
have not made their appearance in our doves. The roots 
of the fecond fort will continue three or four years, but 
after the fecon-d year, the plants grow too rambling, and, 
the lower parts of the brandies being naked, are not fo 
lightly as the young Plants; therefore afucceffion of thefe 
fhouid 
