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IN'NY, a river of Ireland, in the county of Kerry, 
which empties itfelf into Ballinalkellig Bay. 
I'NO, in fabulous hiftory, a daughter of Cadmus and 
Harmonia, who nurfed Bacchus. She married Athamas 
king of Thebes, after lie had divorced Nephele, by 
whom he had two children, Phryxus and Helle. Ino be¬ 
came mother of Melicerta and Learchus ; and foon con¬ 
ceived an implacable hatred againft the children of Ne- 
phele* becaufe they were to afcend the throne in prefer¬ 
ence to her own. Phryxus and Helle were informed of 
Ino’s machinations, and they efcaped to Colchis on a 
golden ram. Juno, jealous of Ino’s profperity, refolved 
to difturb her peace ; and more particularly becaufe the 
was of the defendants of her greatelt enemy, Venus. 
Tifiphone was fent by order of Juno to the houfe of 
Athamas; and die filled the whole palace with fuch fury, 
that Athamas, taking Ino to be a lionefs and her children 
whelps, purfued her, and dalhed her fon Learchus againft 
a wall. Ino efcaped from the fury of her hulband ; and 
fiom a high rock the threw herfelf into the fea with Me¬ 
licerta in her arms. The gods pitied her fate; and Nep¬ 
tune made her a fea-deity, which was afterwards called 
Leucothoe. Melicerta became alfo a fea-god, known by 
the name of Palemon. 
INO'A, feftivals in memory of Ino, celebrated yearly 
with fports and facrifices at Corinth. An anniverfary fa- 
crifice was alfo offered to Ino at Megara, where flic was 
firft worfhipped under the name of Leucothoe. Another 
in Laconia, in honour of the fame. It was ufual at the 
celebration to throw cakes of flour into a pond, which if 
they funk were prefages of profperity, but if they fwam 
on the furface of the waters they were inaufpicious and 
very unlucky. 
INOBSER'VABLE, adj. Incapable of being obferved ; 
unworthy of obfervation. 
INOCAR'PUS, f. (from*?, wo?, Gr. a fibre, and xaspiro;, 
a fruit; the drupe being fibrofe.) In botany, genus 
of the clafs decandria, order monogynia, natural order of 
dumofae, (fapotas, JuJf.) The generic characters are— 
Calyx: perianthium one-leaved; (bell-fhaped, Thunb.) 
bifid ; divifions roundifh ; nearly equal. Corolla : one- 
petalled, tubular. Tube cylindric, the length of the ca¬ 
lyx; (fhorter, Thunb.) Border five-parted or fix-parted, 
longer than the tube ; divifions linear, acute, undulated, 
often reflex. Stamina: filaments ten or twelve, very 
fhort, inferted into the tube; the alternate ones inferior ; 
antherae ovate, twin, upright. Piftillum : germ oblong, 
villofe, fuperior; ftyle none; ftigma an excavated point. 
Pericarpium: drupe kidney-form or ovate, incurved, com- 
prelfed, large, one-feeded. Seed, a nut, interwoven with 
woody fibres ; kernel compreffed, oval.— EJfential Charac¬ 
ter. Calyx; bifid; corolla funnel-form; ftamina in a 
double row ; drupe one-feeded. 
Inocarpus edulis, a folitary fpeeies. It is a tree, with 
alternate leaves, a long fpan in length, oblong, fubcordate, 
on very fhort petioles, quite entire, fmooth, veined. 
Spikes (racemes) axillary, lolitary, fmall, hirfute. Flow¬ 
ers fmall, alternate, with fmall braftes. Native of the 
Society, Friendly, and New Hebrides, ifles, &e. in the 
South Seas ; alfo in Amboyna. Forfter defcribes it as a 
lofty tree, the thicknefs of a man’s body, with a brown 
chinky bark; the branches woody, round, fpreading, va- 
rioufly divided, brown, chinky; leaves fubdiftich, ovate- 
oblong, fcarcely cordate, blunt and retufe, feldom acute, 
fpreading, netted with abundance of veins, a fpan long, 
and on young trees a foot. Flowers dufky white, fcarcely 
half an inch in length. In Otaheite this tree is called hi, 
and the fruit ratia ; in Mallicollo the name of the tree is 
rtias ; and in Tanha, ernmer ; in Cook's laft voyage the 
nuts are called e-ifi •, the kernel of thefe, which is kidney- 
fhaped, and about an inch in diameter, is eaten roafted 
by the inhabitants of the Society and Friendly ifles, the 
New Hebrides, New Guinea, the Molucca ifles, Sic, It 
is fweetifh, but lefs pleafant than the cheftnut, harder, 
and lefs farinaceous; the bark is aftringent, and is ufed 
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in the dyfentery ; in New Guinea, they fmear the heads 
of their arrows with the exprefled refinous juice. 
INOCCID'UOUS, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and 
occido, to fet.] Not going down, always above the hori¬ 
zon, applied to ftars that never fet. Cole. 
To INOC'ULATE, [ inoculo , from in and oculus , Lat.] 
To propagate any plant by inferting its bud into another 
ftock; to praftife inoculation.—Now is the feafon for the 
budding of the orange-tree: inoculate therefore at the 
commencement of this month. Evelyn. 
But various are the ways to change the ftate. 
To plant, to bud, to graft, t’ inoculate. Drydett. 
To INOC'ULATE, v.a. To yield a bud to another 
ftock.—Virtue cannot fo inoculate our old ftock, but we 
(hall relifh of it. Shahefpeare. 
Thy ftock is too much out of date. 
For tender plants t’ inoculate. Cleavcland. 
To infeft with the fmall pox by inoculation. —The child 
once burnt dreads the fire; he runs away from the fur- 
geon by whom he was inoculated. Reid. 
INOC'ULATING, f. The aft or procefs of inoculation. 
INOCULA'TION, f [inoculatio, Lat. from inoculate.'] 
Inferting the bud of one plant into the ftock of another. 
Inoculation is praftifed upon all forts of ftone-fruit, and 
upon oranges and jafmines. Miller. —See the article Hor¬ 
ticulture, vol. x. p. 400.—Union of families b)\inter- 
marriages.—In the ftem of Elaiana they all met, and came 
to be ingrafted all upon one ftock, moil of them by inocu¬ 
lation. Howel. —The practice of tranlplanting the fmall- 
pox, by infufion of the matter from ripened puftules into 
the veins of the uninfefted, in hopes of procuring a milder 
fort than what frequently comes by infection.—It is evi¬ 
dent, by inoculation, that the fmalleft quantity of the mat¬ 
ter, mixed with the blood, produceth the difeafe. Arbuthnot. 
Inoculation for the fmall-pox, though of ancient ufe in 
the eaftern countries, is but a modern practice among us, 
at leaft under the direftion of art. It is well obferved by 
baron Dimfdale, that accident hath furnilhed the art 
of medicine with many valuable hints, and fome of its 
greatelt improvements have been received'from the hands 
of ignorance and barbarifm. This truth is remarkably 
exemplified in the practice of inoculation for the fmall-pox; 
but, to the honour of the Britilh phyiicians, they meafured 
not the value of this practice by the meannefs of its ori¬ 
gin, but by its real importance and utility; they patro- 
nifed a barbarous difcovery with no lefs zeal and affec¬ 
tion than if it had been their own. Indeed the whole 
nation might be faid to have adopted the praftice; for 
the greatelt encouraged it by becoming.examples, and the 
wifeft were determined by the general event of the me¬ 
thod. 
The time and place in which the art of inoculating for 
the fmall-pox was firft formed, are equally unknown. Ac¬ 
cident probably gave rife to it. Pylarini fays, that among 
the Turks it was not attended to except amongft the 
meaner fort. Dr. Ruffel informs us, in the Philofophical 
Tranfaftions, vol. lviii. p. 14a. that no mention is made 
of it by any of the ancient Arabian medical writers that 
are known in Europe; and the phyficians who are na¬ 
tives in and about Arabia affert, that nothing is to be 
found regarding it in any of thofe of a more modern date. 
He farther lays, that he engaged fome of his learned Turk- 
ilh friends to make inquiry; but they did not difcover 
any thing on the fubjeft of inoculation either in the 
writings of phyficians, hiftorians, or poets. Until the be¬ 
ginning of the t 8th century, all the accounts we have of 
inoculating the linallpox are merely traditional. The 
lilence on this fubjeft, obferved amongft writers in the 
countries where the praftice obtained, Dr. Ruffel fup- 
pofes, with great probability, to be owing to the phyfi¬ 
cians there never countenancing or engaging in it. It is 
alfo remarkable, that before Pylarini’s letter to the Royal 
Society in 1701, and for feveral years after, this prac¬ 
tice is not noticed by any of the molt inquifitive travel- 
