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©nes, dilated at the Jpafe, rather iliorter than the upper ; 
permanent. Corolla: papilionaceous, of five petals, about 
twice the length of the calyx ; ftandard inverfely heart- 
Jhaped, recurved, with a fhort broad linear claw; wings 
lanceolate-oblong, rather fhorter than the ftandard, with 
a tooth at the upper edge; keel Ihorter than the wings, 
©f tw'O cohering half-ovate petals, with linear claws. Sta¬ 
mina: filaments ten, awl-fliaped, equal, contained within 
the keel, inferted into the receptacle; antherce roundifh, 
incumbent. Piftillum: germen fuperior, ovate-oblong; 
ftyle thick and fliort, bent upwards; ftigma capitate. Pe- 
ricarpium: legume heart-fhaped, pointed, tumid, with a 
groove at each fide, of two cells, at length feparating from 
each other; the partition double, from both the indexed 
margins of each valve. Seeds : folitary, attached to the 
lower edge of each valve, oval, comprefled, with a circu¬ 
lar bordered fear.— EJJ'ential Character. Calyx five-cleft, 
two-lipped; corolla papilionaceous ; ftyle reilexed ; ftigma 
capitate ; legume of two cells, tumid, with two feeds; the 
partition double. 
i. Mirbelia reticulata, or reticulated mirbelia: leaves 
linear-lanceolate, veiny. Native of the neighbourhood 
of Part Jackfon, New South Wales. Dr. White. It was 
very early raifed from feeds in this country, and is kept 
an the green-houfe, in light fandy peat-earth, with little 
•water in winter, but as much air as poflible ; flowering 
from May to Auguft, the fecond year after being fown. 
The Item is flirubby, much branched, and very bufhy, 
fmoothifh; leafy, angular; the branches moftly ternate, 
ftraight, and fpreading. Leaves almoft always three in a 
whorl, rarely oppofite only, on very fhort broad footftalks, 
fpreading, an inch long, linear-lanceolate, fometimes el¬ 
liptical and fliortened, fmooth, revolute, flightly crenate 
or wavy, tipped with a fpine, furnifhed with one rib and 
many tranfverfe veins; paler and moft opaque beneath. 
Flowers in little axillary and terminal tufts, on fhort 
flalks; with a pair of linear bradtes in the middle of each 
ftalk ; corolla light purple, with a radiating reddifh ftain 
at the bafe of the ftandard ; legume a quarter of an inch 
long, grey, fmooth, tranfverfely veined. It is curious 
that this lhrub fhould ever have been miftaken for a Rubia, 
which was adtually the cafe before it flowered. 
3. Mirabelia dilatata, or lobed-leaved mirabelia : leaves 
wedge-fhaped, dilated and three-cleft at the extremity. 
Found by Mr. Brown on the fouth-weft coaft of New Hol¬ 
land. This fpecies was fent to Kew, in 1803, by Mr. Pe¬ 
ter Good; and flowers in the green-houfe in May and 
June. SimsJ)' Konig's Bot. Ann. Ait.llort. Kew. vol. iii. 
Linn. Trait j'. vol. ix. p. 265. 
MIRCHOU'R a town of Hindooftan, in Golconda: 
twenty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Canoul. 
MIR'DA. See'MEERTA. 
MIRE, J. [moer, Dut.] Mud; dirt at the bottom of 
water.—I appeal to any man’s reafon, whether it be not 
better that there fhould be a diftindtion of land and lea, than 
that all fhould be mire and water. More againji Atheifm. 
I’rn Ralph himfelf, your trufty fquire, 
Wh’ has dragg’d your donfhip out o’th' mire. Hudibras. 
Tb MIRE, v. a. To whelm in the mud; to foil with 
raud: 
Why had I not, with charitable hand, 
Took up a beggar’s iflue at my gates ? 
"Who fmeered thus, and mir'd with infamy, 
I might have faid no part of it is mine. Shakefpeare. 
MIRE, f. [_myr, Welfli; mypa, Sax. mier , Dut.] An 
ant; a pifmire. 
MIRE, J'. in the French artillery, a piece of wood, about 
four inches thick, one foot high, and two feet and a half 
long, which is uled in pointing cannon. 
Coins de Mip.e, wedges made of wood, which ferve to 
raife or deprefs any piece of ordnance. 
MIRE (Aubert de), a voluminous writer in.civil and 
ecclelialtical hiftory, was born at JBruflels in 1573. He 
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was nephew to John le Mire, bifhop of Antwerp, by whole 
intereft he obtained a canonry of that church in 1598. His 
uncle fent him in 1610 into Holland, and afterwards into 
France, on affairs relative to the, catholic religion; and 
the archduke Albert nominated him his firft almoner and 
librarian. In 1624. he was made dean of Antwerp; and 
he was alfo grand-vicar of that diocefe. After a life fpent 
in learned and ecclefiaftical labours, he died at Antwerp 
in 164.2, and was interred in the cathedral. The princi¬ 
pal works of le Mire are the following : 1. Elogia illuf- 
triurn Belgii Scriptorum, 4-to. 1609. 2. Vita Jufti Lipfii, 
8vo. 1609. 3. Origines Monafteriorum Benedidtinorum, 
Cartulianorum, Auguftinianorum, &c. After he had pub- 
lifhed leparately thefe accounts of the origin of the mo- 
naftic orders, he printed them colledtively, under the ti¬ 
tle of Originum Monajiicarum, lib. v. 1620. 4. Bibliotheca 
Ecclefiaftica, 2 vols. folio. 5. Opera Hiftoricatc Diploma- 
tica. This is an ufeful colledtion of charters and diplo¬ 
mas relative to the Low Countries ; the belt edition is 
that of Foppens, with many notes and augmentations, in 
2 vols. folio, 1724; two fupplemental volumes were after¬ 
wards added. Gen. Biog. / 
MIREBALAI'S, a town of the ifland of Hifpaniola: 
thirty miles north of Port au Prince. 
MIREBEAU', a town of France, in the department of 
the Vienne. In 1346, it was taken by the Englilh. In 
the caftle of this place, prince Arthur was made prifoner, 
with leveral of his friends : twelve miles north-north-eaft 
of Poitiers, and twelve fouth of Loudun. Lat.46. 47. N. 
Ion. o. 16. E. 
MIREBEAU', a town of France, in the department of 
the Cote d’Or : thirteen miles north-eaft from Dijon, and 
thirteen north-north-weft of Auxonne. 
MIREBEL', a town of France, in the department of 
the Ifere: ten miles north of Grenoble. 
MIRECOU'RT, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftridt, in the department of the Vofiges: thirteen 
miles north-weft of Epinal, and twenty-four fouth of 
Nancy. Lat. 43.18.N. Ion. 6. 13.E. 
MIREFLEU'R, a town of France, in the department 
of the Puy de Dome: fix miles fouth-weft of Billom, and 
feven fouth-eaft of Clermont. 
MIREMO'NT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Dordogne : ten miles fouth-weft of Montignac, and 
fifteen fouth-eaft of Perigueux. 
MIREMO'NT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper Garonne. In 1345, this town was taken by 
the Englilh: feven miles fouth-eaft of Muret, and twelve 
north-eaft of Rieux. 
MIRE'NI, a town of Walachia, on the Ardgis, near its 
union with the Danube :. thirty miles fouth of Bucharell, 
and twenty-five weft-fouth-weft of Driltra. 
MIREPEX', a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Pyrenees : nine miles fouth-eaft of Pau. 
MIREPEYS'SET, a town of France, in the department 
of the Aude: nine miles north-weft of Narbonne. 
MIREPOI'X, a town of France, and principal place of 
a diftridt, in the department of the Arriege; before the 
revolution the fee ofabilhop: eighteen miles north-eaft: 
of Taralcon, and twenty-four weft-fouth-weft of Carcaf- 
fone. Lat. 43. 5. N. Ion. 1. 56. E. 
MIREVAU'X, a town of France, in the department of 
the Herault: fix miles fouth-weft of Montpellier. 
MI'REVELT (MichaeJ-Janfen), an eminent painter, 
was born at Delft in 1568. His father, a goldfmith by 
trade, caufed him at an early age to be taught drawing 
and engraving, and then placed him with a painter, An¬ 
tony Blochland. His firft works were in hiltory-painting, 
and he finiihed fiome altar-pieces, by which he acquired 
reputation. He alfo painted fubjedts in common life ; 
kitchens with their furniture, and the like. At length 
he confined himfelf to portrait, as the moft gainful branch 
of the art; and no one in his time obtained more empio)-- 
rn^nt in that line, or was more admired. His pictures 
were exadt copies of nature, were highly finiihed, with a 
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