N O L 
Jiaye been called Npla, or Campana, in Latin. The in¬ 
ventor was St. Paulinus, the bifhop of the place, who 
died A. D. 4.31. though many imagine that bells were 
known long before, and only introduced into churches 
by that prelate. Before his time, congregations were 
called to the church by the noife of wooden rattles called 
fa era lig\m. 
Nola is now a town of Naples, in the province of La- 
vora. It is Hill a handfome town, the fee of a bifnop, fuf- 
fragan of Naples. Thefilk fpun in the neighbourhood is 
much efteemed: thirteen miles eaft of Naples. Lat. 4.0. 
53. N. Ion. 14. 20. E. 
NOLACHUC'KY, a river of America, which runs into 
the Tennafee in lat. 35. 46. N. Ion. 83. 4. W. 
NOLA'NA, f. [fo named by Linnseus from nola, a 
little bell, on accbunt of the bell-fhaped form of the co¬ 
rolla.] In botany, a genus of the clafs pentandria, order 
monogynia, natural order of afperifoliae, or lurida?, (bor- 
raginere, Jujf.) Generic characters—Calyx: perianthium 
one-leafed,"turbinate at the bafe, five-parted; five-cor¬ 
nered; fegments cordate, acute, permanent. Corolla: 
one-petalled, bell-fhaped, plaited, fpreading, fomewhat 
five-lobed, twice as large as the calyx. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments five, awl-fhaped, ereCt, equal, fhorter than the 
corolla; antherse fagittate. Piltillum: germens five, 
roundifli; ftyle among the germens, cylindric, ftraight, 
the length of the ftamens; ftigma capitate. Pericarpitim : 
properly none; (drupes five, decumbent, three or five- 
celled. Gartner.) Seeds: five, with a fucc.ulent rind, 
roundifli, with the inner bafe naked, immerfed in the re¬ 
ceptacle, two-celled and four-celled; (folitary. Gartner.) 
—Effential Char a tier. Corolla bell-fhaped ; ftyle among 
the germens; feeds five; berried, two-celled 3 (drupes five, 
three or five-celled, with one feed in each cell. Gartner.) 
Nolana proftrata, or trailing nolana ; the only fpecies. 
The root is annual, Ample, filiform, often three feet long, 
blackifh. Stem a foot long, herbaceous, proftrate, round- 
lfh, -very frnooth, with white dots fcattered over it. 
Branches alternate, the lower ones the length of the ftalk. 
Leaves alternate, two together, reflex, rhomb-ovate, quite 
entire, blunt, fomewhat flefhy, an inch long, fomewhat 
papulofe, even, flat, veined, unequal, alternately larger 
and fmaller. Miller remarks, that they come out Angle 
at fome joints, by pairs at others, and frequently three or 
four at the upper joints. Petioles. ancipital, fcarcely 
fhorter than the leaves, frnooth, thofe belonging to the 
upper leaves vaguely ciliate. Peduncles lateral, folitary, 
fpreading a little, an inch long, one-flowered, round ; 
thicker at top, hairy. Flow'ers inferior ; corolla of a fine 
blue colour, with dark purple veins at the throat; calyx 
pale purple ; filaments purple ; antherse blackifh-blue ; 
piftil white, with a black germen; receptacle red. The 
Item and petioles are green with purple fpots. The leaves 
are dark green. This plant is reprefented on the pre¬ 
ceding Engraving, at fig. 5. 
There is much ambiguity refpefiting the natural order 
to which Nolana fliould be referred. Linnaeus placed 
it among the Ajperifolia, obferving, however, that it has 
no lefs affinity to the Lurida. Juflieu remarks, that it 
has the appearance of Convolvulus ; the leaves alternate, 
and, as in the Solaned, geminate, with the flowers extra- 
axillary ; and that it is allied to the Borraginea by its 
five-capfuled fruit, but that in habit and flower it more 
refembles the Solanea and Convolvuli. Gaertner is deci¬ 
dedly of opinion that Nolana fliould range in the order of 
Solanacea. The feeds were fent to Linn a; us by David 
Van Royen, profeflor of botany at Leyden, in the fpring 
of the year 1761, under the name of Belladonna. Its 
native country was not known ; but was conje&ured to 
be Spain. It proves however to be Peru. Mr. Miller 
cultivated it in 1761. He fay? that he received the feeds 
from Mr. Forfkahl, one of the perfons who were fent by 
the late king of Denmark to make difeoveries in the eaft; 
and thence concludes erroneoufly that it grows naturally 
in Egypt. It flowers in July, and the feeds ripen in Sep¬ 
tember. 
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The plants may be r^ufed by lowing the.feeds on a hot¬ 
bed in March. When the plants are fit to remove, tranf- 
plant them fingly into fmall pots filled with light earth, 
and plunge them into a frefli hot-bed to bring them for¬ 
ward, otherwife they will not ripen their feeds in this 
country. When their flowers open in July, they fliould 
have a large fhare of air admitted to them, when the 
weather is warm, to prevent their flowers from falling 
away without producing feeds. With this management 
the plants will continue flowering till the early frofts de ¬ 
ft roy them; and ripe feeds will be produced in the be¬ 
ginning of September. 
NOLAY', a town of France, in the department of the 
Cote d’Or : ten miles fouth-weft of Beaune, and fourteen 
fouth-eaft of Arnay le Due. 
NOL'DIUS (Chriftian), a learned Danifli divine and 
able profeflor of theology, was born at Hoybia, in Scania, 
in the year 1626. He was fent to be inftru&ed in gram¬ 
mar-learning at Lunden ; whence he was removed, in 
1644, to the univerfity of Copenhagen. Here he diftin- 
guiflied himfelf by the progrefs which he made in his aca¬ 
demical ftudies, and was enrolled among the citizens of 
the metropolis. In 1650, he was nominated re&orof the 
college at Landfcroon ; and in the following year took 
his degree of M. A. In 1654, he religned his charge at 
Landfcroon, determined on travelling into foreign coun¬ 
tries for improvement. He firft vifited the moft celebrated 
universities of Germany, and obtained introduction to 
fome of the moft eminent divines, and other diftinguiftied 
literary characters, in that country: afterwards he vifited 
Holland, England, and France; and in 1C57 returned to 
his native country to fettle his family-affairs. Flavinr-- 
accomplilhed this buiinefs, within three months he let 
out for Holland a fecond time, and purfued his ftudies 
nearly three years in the univerfities of Franeker and 
Leyden. In 1660, he accepted the poll of tutor and go¬ 
vernor of the fons of the lord of Gerftorff, grand-mafter 
of the palace to the king of Denmark ; and, four years 
afterwards, he was ordained minifter, and was called to 
fill the divinity-chair in the univerfity of Copenhagen. 
To this poll the king was pleafed to add the honourable 
one of reCtor of that feminary. Noldius died in 1683, at 
theadvanced age of fifty-feven. He was a man inceflantly 
occupied in his ftudies ; and fubjeCts requiring the moft 
profound refearch had for him peculiar attractions. He 
is faid to have been one of the firft who ventured fo far to 
oppofe the popular notion of demonology, as to main¬ 
tain that devils could not work miracles for the purpofe 
of introducing or countenancing vice. He was the au¬ 
thor of, 1. Concordantias particularum Hebrseo Chaldai- 
cum, See. an excellent and much-efteemed work, of 
which the bell edition is that of Jena, in 1734,410. 2. Sa- 
crarum Hiftoriarum et Antiquitatum Synopfis. 3. Leo-§s 
diftinguendi; feu, de Virtute et Vitio DiltinCtionis Opus. 
4. Hiftoria Idumtea; feu, de Vita et Geftis Herodum Dia¬ 
tribe. 5. Logica. 6. A new Edition of Jofephus’s Hif- 
tory, &c. Freheri T/ieatr. Vir. Erud. Clar. 
NOLENGU', f in botany. See Impatiens. 
NO'LENS, adj. [Latin.] Unwilling. Baileu. 
NO'LENS VO'LENS, adv. [Latin.] At all adventures, 
whether willing or unwilling. Bailey. 
NO'LI, a leaport-town of Liguria. The harbour is 
defended by a fort; the inhabitants are chiefly filhermen, 
yet it is the fee of a biftiop: fifty-eight miles eall-north- 
eaft of Nice, and twenty-five fouth-weft of Genoa. Lat. 
44. 11. N. Ion. 8. 28. E. 
NO'LI ME TAN'GERE, f. [Lat. touch me not.] A 
plant. See Impatiens and M omordica.' —Noli me tan- 
gere may be planted among your flowers for the rarity of 
it. Mortimer. —A kind of cancerous fwelling, often ex- 
afperated by applications. See Surgery. 
NO'LIN’s CREEK, a river of Kentucky, which runs 
into Green River in lat. 36. 57. N. Ion.86. 36. E. 
NOLI'NA,[fo named by Michaux, in compliment 
to “ P. C. Nolin, a Frenchman, an ardent cultivator of 
American plants more efpecially, to the great benefit of 
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