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FR ANK'ED-LET'TERS. See the ankles Post, and 
Post-Office. 
FRANK'ENAU, a town of Germany, in t!ic circle of 
the Upper Rhine, and principality of Heffe : twenty-four 
miles ibuth-weft of CafTel, and eighty fouth-fouth-wert of 
Waldeck. 
FRANK'ENBERG, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria : fix miles vved-iiorth-weft of Voglabnick, 
FRANK'ENBERG, a tovvn of Germany, in the cir. 
cle of Upper Saxony, and territory of Erzegeburg : nine 
miles weft of Freyberg, and fevcn north-north-eaft of 
Chemnitz. 
FRANK'ENDAL, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Lower Rhine, and Lower Palatinate, fituated in a 
fertile plain, on a navigable canal, which communicates 
with the Rhine. It owes its rife to two convents, one of 
men, and the other of women. Some Flemings, wlio fled 
from perfecution, fettled here, and it became a flonrifhing 
town, when, with the reft of the palatinate, it felt the 
miferies of war, and was deftroyed by the French ; but, 
by the care of the prince, foon after rebuilt in a regular 
and handfome manner. The inhabitants are engaged in 
manufadtures of porcelain, cloth, ferges, filk-lhilfs, (lock¬ 
ings, foap. See. It was taken by the French republican 
army in 1793, and laid under contribution. The inhabi¬ 
tants of Frankendal, among other privileges, are exempted 
from the military prefs, which is to fupply the contingency 
to the army of the empire. It contains three cluirches, 
and a handfome hofpital: eight miles north-nonh-weft of 
Manheim, and eight fouth of Worms. 
FRANK'ENFELS, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Aiiftria, fituated on the river Noderfpaclt : 
twenty miles weft-fouth-weft of Uainfelden, and tliirty-fix 
weft of Vienna. 
FRANK'ENHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Upper Saxony, and principality of Schwartzburg- 
Rudolftadt ; divided intoGld and New Tovvn, fituated on 
a branch of the Wipper. It contains a chateau, three 
churches, and a fchool, formerly a Ciftertian convent; 
with rich falt-works, wliich are very profitable, and be¬ 
long to tlie citizens; ten miles eaft of Sonderfhaufen, and 
twenty-fix north of Erfurt. Lat. 51. 16. N. Ion. 28.43. E. 
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FRANK'ENHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Upper Saxony, and territory of Erzgeburg : eiglit 
miles north-north-weft of Zwickau. 
FRANKE'NIA, f. [fo named in honour of John Fran- 
kenius, profeftbr of botany at Upfal, wlio firft enumerated 
the plants of Sweden’ in the Speculum Botanicum.] In 
botany, a genus of the clafs hexandria, order monogynia, 
natural order of calycantheiTUE, (caryophyllere,) The 
generic charaflers are—Calyx: periantliium one-leafed, 
fubcylindric, ten-cornered, permanent; mouth five-tooth¬ 
ed, lharp, patulous. Corolla; petals five; claws the 
length of the calyx ; border flat, with roundifh, fpread- 
ing, laminas; nectary with a channelled acuminate claw, 
inferted into each claw of the petals. Stamina ; filaments 
fix, length of the calyx ; antherte roundifh, twin. Pif- 
tillum : germ oblong, fuperior ; ftyle fimple, length of 
the ftamens; ftigmas three, oblong, ere6l, obtufe. Peri- 
carpiiini; capfuleoval, one-celled, three-valved. Seeds: 
very many, ovate, very fmall.— F.JJtnlial CharaBtr. Calyx 
five-cleft, funnel-form; petals five; ftigma fix-parled; 
capfule one-celled, tkree-valved. 
Species. 1. Frankenia Itevis, or fmooth Frankenia or 
fea-heath: leaves linear, crowded, ciliaie at the bafe. 
Root perennial. Stems numerous, round, branched, trail¬ 
ing. Leaves in little clufters, fmall, flefliy, rolled back 
fo as to appear almoft cylindrical, with a groove under¬ 
neath, flatted at the bale, where they are dilated into a 
pair of minute membranaceous dilate ftipules. Flowers 
at the ramifications of the ftem, and in the middle of a 
bundle of leaves, folitary, feftile ; calyx with five, fix, or 
feven, ribs, and as many teeth, but rarely more than five ; 
corolla purple, petals wedge-fliaped, a little fcolloped at 
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the end. The flowers are elegant in form and colour, 
like thofe of a little red pink or campion. The ftamens 
and piftil much refemble the lychnis, to which this plant 
is neatly allied, tlioiigh fo different in habit. Grows in 
fait maiffies, near Leghorn. In England, Mr. GoodytT 
found it, September 3, 1621, at Burfeldon-ferry, Hamp- 
fhire; on the coafti of Elfex, Suffex, and Kent, abundant¬ 
ly, as in the iflands of Shepey and Thanet, Lovingland, 
juft over the water at Yarmouth ; about Thurrington in 
Effex, between Maldon and Goldhanger ; in Selfey ifland, 
Sud'ex ; near Portfmouth ; Tid Goat near Wifbeach ; near 
Lynn in Norfolk. It flowers in July and Auguft. 
2. Frankenia liirfuta, or hirfute Frankenia, or fea-heath: 
ftems hirfuie ; flowers in terminating bundles. Stems pro¬ 
cumbent, preffed as it were clofe to tlie ground, panicled, 
and dichotomous. Leaves like tliofe of thyme, ciliate, 
efpecially at the bafe. l<'lowers violet-coloured. Native 
of the South of France, Apulia, Crete, Siberia, and the 
Cape of Good Hope. 
3. Frankenia pulverulenta, or dufty Frankenia, or fea- 
lieath : leaves obovate, retufe, mealy underneath. Stems 
lying flat, llender,. branching, with the knots about a fin. 
ger’s breadth from each other. Leaves four at a joint, 
with very fliort hairs underneath, the edges not rolled in ; 
petioles fhort. Flowers in the axils of the leaves, feliile; 
calyx tough, rigid, witli five angles; teeth upright. An¬ 
nual. Native of the South of France, Italy, and Spain. 
Found on the coaft of Suffex, by Mr. Brewer; between 
Bognor and Brightlielmftone, by Mr. Hudfon. It flowers 
in July. Gerarde and Ray name it Vakntia knot graj's, 
Thefe plants were named Franca by Micheli, from Giov. 
Sebaft. Franchi, of Lucca, phyfician at Florence to the 
grand duke Cofmo III. Linnaeus changed the name to 
Frankenia, in order to perpetuate the name of a perfon not 
of much greater celebrity. 
FRANK'ENSTEIN, a town of Silefia, in the princi¬ 
pality of Miinfterberg, on the river Bautze : nine miles weft 
of Munfterberg, and twelve foiith-fouth-weft of Gkitz. 
FRANK'ENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine: five miles fouth-eaft of Darmftadt. 
FRANK'ENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and duchy of Deux Fonts: twenty 
miles fouth eaft of Deux Fonts. 
FRANK'FORT, a townfliip of the American States, 
in Hancock county, diftrifl of Maine, on the weft fide of 
Fenobfeot-bay : eight miles weft of Fenobfeot, 123 weft 
of Palfarnaquoddy, and 238 north-eaft of Bofton. 
FRANK'FORT, or Frankford, a pleafant town of 
the American States, in Fhiladelphia county, Fennfylva- 
nia, fituated on the north-eaft fide of a creek of the fame 
name, a mile and a half from Delaware river; with au 
epifcopal and a German church ; onclevated ground, about 
five miles north-eaft of Fliiladelphia. 
FR ANK'FORT, anew townfhip ofthe American States, 
in Herkemer county, New-York, eaft ot Whiteftown. 
FRANK'FORT, a town ofthe American Stales; in 
Hampfhire county, Virginia, on a creek which empties 
into Potowmack river. It is thirteen miles north-weft of 
Rumney, four miles fouth of the Potowmack, and ten 
foiuh-foiith-eaft of Fort Cumberland. 
FRANK'FORT, the capital of Pendleton county, Vir¬ 
ginia, in the American States, fituated on the welt (ide of 
a fouth branch of Potowmack river. It contains a court- 
hoiife and a gaol : 180 miles north-weft of Richmond. 
FRANK'FORT, the metropolis of Kentucky, in the 
American States, fituated in Franklin county, on the 
north-eaft bank of Kentucky river, about fifty miles from 
its confluence with the Ohio. It is a flouriftiiiig town, 
regularly laid out, and has a number of handfome houfes. 
The ftate-houfe is a fuperb ftone building. Here is alfo 
a tobacco wareboufe : thirty miles north of Harrodfburgli, 
forty noi ih-by.weft of-Danville, 123 from Louilville, and 
790 weft-by-fouth of Philadelphia. Lat. 38. 14. N. Ion. 
95. 28. W. 
FRANK'FORT on the MAINE, or Francfort, 
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