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ieafy heads and aggregate flowers. Calyxes divided to 
the bottom i; ' > five narrow hairy fegments, and on the 
peduncles one or. two oblong narrow hairy leaves, fo that 
the whole head has a hirf'ute appearance ; but the leaflets 
are larger towards the outiide of the head, till they be¬ 
come at length like the leaves on the ftem, only fmaller. 
Flowers very fmall, (liort, divided into five roundifh feg¬ 
ments, -commonly plaited and converging - , and feldom 
expanding till about noon, when the fun (hines hot; they 
are of a blue colour, but foon wither, and become brown 
or black. It is an annual plant, flowering in July, and 
is a native of the farther Carolina. 
25. Ipomoea pes tigridis, or palmated ipomcea : leaves 
palmate, flowers aggregate. Flowers as in the preceding 
fpecies, fmall and converging, but white ; and, befides 
thefe, others larger and more bell-lhaped. Native of the 
Eaft Indies. Cultivated in 1732, by James Sherard, M.D. 
It flowers in Augult. 
Thefe two fpecies with aggregate flowers, differing fo 
much from the others, are placed in a diftinft genus by 
Dillenius, under the name of Volubilis. Some of the fpe¬ 
cies of Ipomoea indeed differ more from others than they 
do from fome fpecies of Convolvulus, from which genus 
this can fcarcely be feparated ; that, however, is too un¬ 
wieldy already to admit of unnecefiary enlargement, and 
the Ipomceas are, to a botanical eye, fufficiently dillinft 
in their habit to be kept together, and feparate from Con¬ 
volvulus. 
26. Ipomcea fimplex, or entire-leaved ipomoea: leaves 
lanceolate, entire ; flowers folitary. Native of the Cape 
of Good Hope. 
27. Ipomcea Zeylanica, or Ceylonefe ipomoea : floral 
leaflets under each calyx one ; lanceolate, feflile ; perma¬ 
nent; three times as long as the calyx. Native of Cey¬ 
lon, where it is named kiritiella. 
Propagation and Culture. The firffc fpecies is a tender 
plant, and will not thrive in the open air in England ; it 
is propagated by feeds, which fliould be fown on a hot¬ 
bed in the fpring; and, as the plants will foon appear, 
they fliould be each tranfplanted into a fmall pot filled 
with light earth, before they twine about each other, for 
then it will be difficult to difengage them without break¬ 
ing their tops. When they are potted, they fliould be 
plunged into a new hot-bed, and flicks placed down by 
each plant for tlieir (talks to twine about; after they have 
taken new root, they fliould have a good fliare of air in 
warm weather to prevent their drawing up weak ; and, 
when they are advanced too high to remain under the 
frame, they fliould be removed into the taa-bed in the 
(love, where they fhould have fupport, for their branches 
will extend to a confiderable height. They will begin to 
flower in June, and there will be a fucceflion of flowers 
till the end of September, and the feeds will ripen well in 
this fituation every autumn. As thefe plants, efpecially 
the eighth and moft beautiful fpecies, extend their (hoots 
to a very great length, they require a tall Hove, where 
they may have room to grow, without which they will 
never produce any flowers. Indeed they grow fo very 
large before they begin to have flowers, as that few of the 
(loves in England have height enough for their growth. 
See Convolvulus- 
IPS, a town of Auftria, fituated near the conflux of 
the Ips and Danube, on the fite of the ancient Pons Ifis, 
or Ifipontium: twenty-two miles weft of St. Polten, forty- 
eight weft of Vienna. Lat. 4.8. 13. N. Ion. 15.15. E. 
IPS, a river which rifes from a lake in the fouth part 
of Auftria, paffes by Waidhoven, &c. and runs into the 
Danube near the town of Ips. 
IP'SALA, or Skip'silar, a town of European Turkey, 
in Romania, the fee of a Greek archbifhop : fifty-three 
miles fouth-well of Adrianople, and 150 well of Conftan- 
tinople. 
IP'SERA, an ifland in the Grecian Archipelago, about 
fix miles long and three wide; it produces figs, grapes, a 
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little cotton, and fome corn; red wine is an article of 
commerce ; the foil is in general excellent. The inhabi¬ 
tants are. chiefly Greeks, in number about 1000, who pay 
a tribute of about 1000 crowns, and are fubjedl to the 
cadi of Scio: fix miles north-well of Scio. Lat. 38. 4.3. N, 
Ion. 25. 35. E. 
IPS'HEIM, a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Culmbach: feventeen miles north-north-weft of Anlpach. 
IP'SILI, a fmall illanu in the gulf of Engia : five miles 
north-well of Engia. 
lP'SON, a town of Egypt: three miles fouth of Ta’nta, 
IP'STONES, a town (hip of Staffordftiire, with one thoti- 
fand eight hundred and four inhabitants: two miles north 
of Cheadle. 
IP'SUS, a place of Phrygia, celebrated fora battle which 
was fought there about 301 years before the Chriftian era, 
between Antigonus and his (on, and Seleucus, Ptolemy, 
Lyfimachus, and Callander. The former led into the field 
an army of above 70,000 foot and 10,000 horfe, with 75 
elephants. The latter’s forces conlilted of 64.,000 infan¬ 
try, betides 10,500 horfe, 400 elephants, and 120 armed 
chariots. See the article Greece, vol. viii. p.954. 
IP'SWICH, the county town of Suffolk, is an ancient,, 
neat, well-built, populous, town, about one mile long, 
forming a fort of half-moon on the bank of the river 
Orwell, over which it has a ftone bridge, leading to 
its fuburb Stoke Hamlet. A battle was fought here be¬ 
tween the Britons and Saxons in 466. Mr. Camden called 
it the eye qf this county. It has a harbour, which was 
more commodious formerly than now; and the number 
of its (hips, as well as its trade by fea, is thereby confi- 
derably leffened ; as alfo its churches, which were twenty- 
one, and now but twelve ; though there are two chapels 
in the corporated liberty, befides meeting-houfes. It had 
charters and a mint fo early as the reign of King John ; 
but the lad charter was from Charles II. It is incorpo¬ 
rated by the name of two bailiffs, a recorder, and twelve 
portmen, (of whom the bailiffs are two,) a town-clerk, 
two chamberlains, two coroners, and twenty-four common- 
council men ; and fends two members. It fent ab origine. 
The following refolutions have been made at different 
times in the houfe relative to the right of election.—1710, 
3d February., Is in the bailiffs, portmen, common-coun¬ 
cil men, and freemen at large, not receiving alms. 1714, 
31ft March. Portmen are an effential constituent part of 
the great court for making freemen of the faid borough ; 
without fome of which portmen being prefent, the laid 
court cannot be held, ill April. A motion being made, 
and the queftion being put, that the perfons voted free¬ 
men at the pretended great courts held in the corporation 
of Ipfwich, 15th June, 7th Auguft, 25th and 28th Sep¬ 
tember, 1711, without any legal portmen then prefent, 
were duly made, and have a right to vote for members to 
ferve in parliament for the borough of Ipfwich; it palfed 
in the negative. Number of Voters 623 ; returning-offi¬ 
cers the two bailiffs. 
Ipfwich was plundered in 991 by the Danes, who de- 
melifhed the ditch and rampart of the town, and forced 
the inhabitants to pay io,oool. They plundered it again 
nine years after ; and king Stephen demolifhed the caltle 
itfelf, which had been built by William the Conqueror. 
Cardinal Wolfey, who was a native of this place, and the 
fon of a butcher, began in 1524 to eredl a college on the 
ruins of one of its monafteries, which, though never 
finifhed, bears his name. Here were fix other religious 
houfes, the ruins of which are ftill to be feen; one of 
them is converted into a manfion-houfe, with a park and 
bowling-green to it, which are a great addition to the 
pleafantnefs of Ipfwich ; at another, the quarter-feflions 
are held; and part of it is a gaol. This town enjoys le- 
veral confiderable privileges ; as the paffing fines and re¬ 
coveries, trying caufes both criminal and capital, and 
even crown-caufes, among themfelves. They appoint the 
affize of ipread, wine, beer, Sc c. No freeman can be 
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