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all over, dichotomous, which is not the cafe in the two 
next fpecies. Native of America, on fea-fliores. Browne 
lays, that this little plant is found creeping in all the low 
lands and dry favannas about Kinglton in Jamaica ; 
that it generally grows in tufts, and fpreads about fix or 
eight inches front the root. Recalls it hairy rupture¬ 
wort, fuppofing it to be a Herniaria. 
17. Illecebrum ficoideum, or fig-like illecebrum: Items 
creeping, fmooth ; leaves broad-lanceolate, petioled, heads 
orbiculnte, pubefeent. Native of America, on the coaft ; 
now wild in Spain. Jacquin lays, it is lo abundant in 
Martinico in meadow's, as'to be a noxious weed. 
18. Illecebrum felfile, or fefiile-fiowered illecebrum: 
Items creeping, bifarioufly tomentofe ; leaves lanceolate, 
fubfefiile, heads oblong, fmooth. Flowers white, in 
roundilh axillary head's, often two together. Native of 
the End Indies, and in wet places about Canton in China, 
it is an annual plant, and was introduced in 1778 by 
Monf. Thouin. It flowers from July to October. For- 
Ikahl found fix ftamens in his Alternanthera, but Vahl re¬ 
marked only five in the dried fpecimens ; and, fince it 
agrees.with this plant both in the herb and fructification, 
he doubts not of their being the fame. 
19. Illecebrum vermiculatum, or creeping illecebrum : 
Items creeping, fmooth; leaves iubcylindric, flelhy, heads 
oblong, fmooth, terminating. This creeping plant fpreads 
a great way among the grafs. The Item is pretty (lender, 
and throws out a few fibrous roots at every joint. The 
whole plant has a reddifh-brown call; and iomething the 
appearance of Portulaca, or purflane. Native of Brafil 
and Curasao; very common about Rock-river in Jamaica, 
and on the fandy (hores of South America. Swartz places 
it among the gomphrenas, on account of its having com¬ 
monly two ftyles, a two or three-leaved calyx, with a 
neCtary and lanugo between the calyx and corolla ; all 
indicating an affinity betweeen this and G. globofa. See 
Gomphrena, vol. viii. p. 67s. 
20. Illecebrum alfinefolium, or chickweed-leaved illece- 
brum •. Items diffufed ; leaves ovate, flowers heaped, b nieces 
Ihining. Native of Spain. . 
ii. Illecebrum frutefeens, or fhrubby illecebrum : Item 
flirubby, diffufed, dichotomous; leaves oppofite, mealy. 
Root w'oody, branched, grey. The whole plant is mealy, 
and proftrate. Stem branched, round, affi-coloured ; 
branches alternate, flexuofe, purple at the joints. 
Propagation and Culture. 7, 8, 10, 12. Tliefe, which 
are natives of the fouth of Europe, may be propagated by 
feeds (own on a bed of light earth the beginning of April. 
The plants will come up in May, when they ffiould be 
kept clean from weeds till the plants are fit to remove, 
and then ihould be carefully taken up, planting fome of 
each fort in fmall pots, and the other in a warm dry bor¬ 
der, obferving to water and (hade them until they have 
taken new root; after which, thofe that are planted in the 
full ground will require no other culture but to keep them 
clean from weeds; for, in the ordinary winters of England, 
they will live in the open air; but, as thefe plants are 
fometimes killed in fevere winters, fome Ihould be fet in 
pots, to be placed in a common frame, where they may 
enjoy the open air in mild weather, but be fereened from 
froft. But, as the feeds do not conftantly ripen, they may 
alfo be increafed by cuttings ; which, if carefully taken 
off in May or June, and planted in a fliady border, will 
in two months put out roots: in moift weather they 
may be tranfplanted, and afterwards treated as the old 
plants. 
The reft, being natives of the Eaft or Weft Indies, and 
other hot climates, are tender, and will not thrive in the 
open air in England ; their feeds therefore mult be fown 
on a hot-bed in the fpring, with amaranthus, gomphrena, 
and other tender plants; afterwards, if they are plunged 
into the tan-bed in the ftove, their branches will put out 
roots, whereby they may be propagated in plenty. Where 
feeds cannot be obtained, they may be increafed this way ; 
and the perennial forts by cuttings. 
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Ill 845 
ILLEC'TIVE, adj. [illiceo , Lat. to allure.] Alluring, 
enticing. Not ufed.. 
ILLEC'TIVE, f. An allurement. Scott. 
ILLE'GAL, adj. \in and legalis, Lat.] Contrary to law. 
No patent can oblige the fubjeft againft law, uiilefs an— 
illegal patent palled in one kingdom can bind another, 
and not itfelf. Swift. 
ILLEGALITY, f. [from illegal. ] Contrariety to law, 
—He wilhed'them to confider what votes they had puffed, 
of the illegality of all thofe commiffions, and of the unjufi- 
tifiablenefs of all the proceedings by virtue of them. 
Clarendon. 
ILLE'GALLY, adv. [from illegal.'] In a manner con¬ 
trary to law.—The baftard ffiall be fettled in the pari III 
from whence the mother was illegally removed. Blackftone. 
ILLE'GALNESS, f. The ftate of being illegal; illega¬ 
lity. Scott. 
ILLEG'IBLE, adj. [in and legibilis, from lego, Lat.] 
What cannot be read.—Thefecretary poured the ink-box 
all over the writings, and fo defaced them that they were 
made altogether illegible. Hozuel. 
ILLEGITIMACY, f. [from illegitimate. ] State of baf- 
tardy.—Abftracfedly from any religious view, which has 
nothing to do w'ith-the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the 
children. Blackjlvrte. 
ILLEGITIMATE, adj. [in and legitimus, Lat.] Un¬ 
lawfully begotten ; not begotten in wedlock.—Being ille¬ 
gitimate, I was deprived of that endearing tendernefs and 
uncommon fatisfaftion, which a good man finds in the 
love and converfation of a parent. Addifon . 
Grieve not at your ftate ; 
For all the world is illegitimate. Cleaveland. 
ILLEGITIMATELY, adj. [from illegitimate.] Not 
begotten in w'edlock. 
ILLEGITIMA'TION,/ [from illegitimate.] The ftate 
of one not begotten in wedlock.—Richard III. had a re- 
folution, out of hatred to both his brethren, to difable 
their iifues, upon falfe and incompetent pretexts; the on* 
of attainder, the other of illegitimation. Bacon. 
IL'LENAS (Las), a town of the ifland of Hifpaniola-: 
feven miles north of St. Domingo. 
ILLEP'ID, adj. [in, Lat. contrary to, and lepidus, plea- 
fant.] Unpleafant, dull in converfation. Bailey. 
IL'LER, a river of Germany, which rifes in the fouth 
part of the bifhopric of Augfburg, on the borders of the 
Tyrolefe, pafles by Kempten, Memingen, &c. and joins 
the Danube about two miles above Ulin. 
ILLES'CAS, a town of Spain, in New Caftile, fituated 
about midway in the road from Toledo to Madrid. It 
contains two pariffies, and three convents : fifteen miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Madrid, and fifteen north-north-eaft 
of Toledo. 
ILLEV'IABLE, adv. [lever, Fr.] What cannot be le¬ 
vied or exacted.—He rectified the method of collecting 
his revenue, and removed obfolete and illcviable parts of 
charge. Hale. 
ILLFA'VOURED, adj. See III. 
ILLFA'VOUREDLY, adv. With deformity. Roughly; 
ruggedly ; in ludicrous language.—He (hook him very 
illfavouredly for the time, raging through the very bov/els 
of his country, and plundering all vvherefoever lie came. 
Howe/. 
ILLFA'VOUREDNESS,/ Deformity. 
ILLIB'ERAL, adj. [illiueralis, Lat.] Not noble : not 
ingenuous.—The charity of moft men is grown fo cold, 
and theirreligion fo illiberal. King Charles. —Not munificent; 
not generous; (paring.-—Yet lublift they did, and well too : 
an argument that earth did not deal out their nourilh- 
ment with an overfparing or illiberal hand. Woodward. 
ILLIBERAL'ITY, f. [illiberalitas, Lat. from illiberal.'] 
Meannefs of mind. Parfimony ; n.iggardlinefs ; want of 
munificence.— The' illiberality of patents, in allowance to¬ 
wards their children, is an harmful error, and acquaints 
them with drifts. Bacon. 
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