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tion ; but to which he did not affix his name. Among 
others, i. A Journey through Part of the Netherlands, 
in 1766, by Coriat Junior, 3 vols. nmo. 1769- 2. Join- 
erina, or the Book of Scraps, 2 yols. Bvo. He was born 
in London, March 17, 1728; and died Oft. 29, 1802. 
Jones’s Biog. Diff. 
PATERSO'NIA, /’. [fo named by Mr. R. Brown in 
honour of his friend colonel William Paterfon, a gentle¬ 
man to whofe refearches at the Cape of Good Hope 
many years ago, and more recently in Norfolk Ifland, as 
well as New South Wales, of which laft fettlement he 
has long been lieutenant-governor, botany is much in¬ 
debted.] In botany, a genus of the clafs monadelphia, or¬ 
der triandria, natural order enfatse, Linn, (irides, Jaff.) 
Generic characters—Calyx : (heath many-flowered, of two 
compreffed keeled rigid leaves, embracing each other, 
with numerous inner membranous feales, feparating the 
flowers. Corolla: of one petal, falver-fliaped, regular 5 
tube very (lender, about as long as the (heath ; limb in fix 
deep fegments, three of them very large, ovate, horizontal, 
the three alternate ones very fmall, ereft. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments three, united into a tube nearly all the way up, 
longer than the (liorter fegments of the corolla ; anthera 
ereft, oblong. Piftillum: germen within the (heath, be¬ 
low the corolla, angular ; (tyle capillary, about as long as 
the ftamens, generally fwelling towards the top, con- 
trafted at the apex ; ftigmas three, dilated, fomewhat 
hooded, undivided. Pericarpium : capfule membranous, 
prifmatic, with three blunt angles, three cells, and three 
valves. Segds numerous, roundifh.— Effenlial Character. 
Sheath of two leaves; three inner fegments of the corolla 
equal, minute, ereft ; filaments diftindt at the top 3 ftig¬ 
mas dilated, undivided. 
There can fcarcely be a doubt that this is. the fame ge¬ 
nus which Labillardiere calls Genojiris, however incor- 
reftly he may have defcribed it. The fpecies known are 
feven, all perennial herbaceous fibrous rooted plants, 
with either none, or a (hort, moftly Ample, Item. Leaves 
fword-lhaped, narrow and compaft. Flower-ftalks either 
radical or terminal, fimple, naked; flowers coining out 
in fucceflion, handfome, but very (hort-lived, blue, with¬ 
out fpots ; antherae and ftigmas yellow. Seeds ufually 
inferted into the inner angle of the cell : fometimes into 
a central column. The fpecies, as far as known, are all 
natives of New Holland, moftly without the tropic, grow¬ 
ing in open, barren, ltony or fandy places, near the (hore, 
rarely in moift meadows. 
1. Paterfonia fericea, or filky paterfonia : ftigmas deflex- 
ed; (heath, and upper part of the (talk, filky; leaves 
ftraight, finely fringed, doubly ftriated, woolly at the 
bafe of their keel. Native of the country about Port 
Jackfon, as well as of the tropical part of New Holland. 
It was one of the firft plants of which fpecimens were fent 
to England by the fettlers. Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy 
railed it from feed, and it flow'ered with them in 1807, 
being kept in the greenhoufe. The leaves are feveral, 
ereft, narrow, rigid, and elaftic, about a foot high, in two 
ranks. Flowers violet, not unlike Tradefcantia virginica 
at the firft glance, but rather larger, without feent. 
2. Paterfonia lanata, or woolly paterfonia: ltalk round, 
ftriated, longitudinally woolly, as well as thefheath ; leaves 
flightly con vex, (imply ftriated ; woolly at the bafe. Ob- 
ferved by Mr. Broun in the Couth part of New Holland. 
3. Paterfonia longifolia, or long-leaved paterfonia: 
ftigmas deflexed ; (heath and ftalk filky ; leaves linear, 
narrow, many times longer than the ftalk ; fringed be¬ 
low the middle with fpreading or indexed hairs. From 
Port Jackfon. 
4. Paterfonia media, or intermediate paterfonia: ftig¬ 
mas deflexed ; inner fegments of the corolla but one- 
fourth as long as the tube of the ftamens; (heath filky ; 
flower-ftalk fmooth, longer than the ftem ; keel of the 
leaves woolly at the bafe. From Port Jackfon. 
y. Paterfonia glabrata, or fmooth paterfonia ; ftigmas 
PAT 
deflexed; inner fegments of the corolla half as long as the 
tube of the ftamens ; flower-ftalk longer than the fte'm, 
very fmooth and (liining, like the (heath ; keel of the 
leaves woolly at the bafe. 1 From the fame country. 
6. Paterfonia glauca, or glaucous paterfonia : ftigma 
ereft ; ftyle (lightly thickened at the top ; (heath about 
three-flowered, ftriated, fmooth ; leaves linear, rather 
convex, naked at the edges and bafe, twice as long as 
the (lender, thread-(haped, fmooth, ftalk. Gathered by 
Labillardiere in Van Diemen’s Land ; by Mr. Brown 
near Port Jackfon. Corolla blue, rather fmaller than in 
P. fericea. 
7. Paterfonia occidentalis, or weft-coaft paterfonia : 
ftigma ereft ; ftyle of equal thicknefs throughout. Sheath 
about five-flowered, even ; ftalk very fmooth, as long as 
the fword-lhaped leaves, which are naked at the edges 
and bafe. Native of the fouth-weft coaft of New Hol¬ 
land, where it was gathered by Mr. Brown. Prod. Nov. 
Hot. vol. i. p. 303. 
PAT'GONG, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal three 
miles weft of Beyhar. 
PATH, / [Saxon ; from paffus, paffus, Lat. a ftep, or 
pace, becaufe a path is made by frequent fteps of the 
foot; or from pajfage, Fr. “ It y a un pafiage a travel's 
les prairies, There is a path through the meadows.” MS 
Gleanings in Etymology.] Way ; road; track. In con¬ 
vention it is ufed of a narrow way to be pafled on foot; 
but in folemn language means any paflage.—For dark- 
nefs, where is the place thereof? that thou (houldeft know 
the paths to the lioufe thereof. Job, xxxviii. 20.—There 
is but one road by which to climb up, and they have a 
very fevere law' againft any that enters the town by ano¬ 
ther path, left any new one (hould be worn on the moun¬ 
tain. Addifon on Italy. 
On the glad earth the golden age renew', 
And thy great father’s path to heaven purfue. Dryden. 
To PATH, v. a. To pufti forward ; to caufe to go ; to 
make way for.—So from the neighbouring hills her paf- 
fage Wey doth path. Draytons Polyolb. 
Where will they find a cavern dark enough 
To mafk thy monftrous vifage ? Seek none, confpiracy; 
Hide in it fmiles and affability: 
For, if thou path thy native femblance on, 
Not Erebus itfelf w'ere dim enough 
To hide thee from prevention Shakefpeare's Jul. Caf. 
PA'TH-FLY, f. A fly found in foot-paths, of a grey- 
ifli colour ; and fuppofed to live by fucking the ground. 
PATH-HEAD', a confiderable manufafturing town in 
the pari (It of Dyfarr, and county of Fife, Scotland, is 
fituated on the acclivity of a hill, looking towards the 
Frith of Forth, at a (hort diftance to the north-eaftward 
of the ancient burgh of Kirkcaldy. It is divided into 
two parts, one called Dunnikier, and the other Sinclair- 
town, from the eftates on which they happen to be re- 
fpeftively placed. Formerly Path-head was noted for the 
number of its nail-manufaftories; but thefe have now' con- 
fiderably declined, and the inhabitants are chiefly en¬ 
gaged in different branches of weaving. There is no 
regular market held in this town ; but it has the privi¬ 
lege of a large annual fair for woollen and linen cloths. 
According to the parliamentary returns of 1811, it con¬ 
tained 237 houfes, and 1692 inhabitants. 
On a free-ftone rock, which projefts into the Frith 
immediately below Path-head, (land the venerable ruins 
of Riven’s or Raven’s Craig caftle, which was granted, 
with the neighbouring lands, by James III. of Scotland, 
to William St. Clair, or Sinclair, earl of Orkney, on his 
refignation of that title. During the time of the com¬ 
monwealth it was garrifoned by a party of Cromwell’s 
troops, but is now uninhabitable. Beauties of Scotland, 
vol. iv. Sinclair’s Statifiical Account, vol. xviii. 
PA'TH-WAY, J. A roqd ; in common acceptation; 
a narrow 
