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27. Pafpalum filifornie, or filiform pafpalum : fpike moft- 
ly folitary, linear, very {lender; flowers very numerous, on 
fhort (talks, elliptical, three-ribbed; leaves briltle-fhaped, 
channelled. Common in dry open fields in the Welt In¬ 
dies: communicated by Dr. Swartz. This fpecies is known 
from all the reft by its extremely (lender habit. It is two feet 
high, and grows in tufts. The Item is quite fmooth, 
almoft capillary, but rigid and ere£t. Leaves long, 
ftraight, almoft equally (lender; convex and fmooth be¬ 
neath ; channelled above. Spike two or three inches 
long, with a very narrow (lightly-zigzag receptacle, 
covered on one fide with a double row of clofely-im- 
bricated fmall fmooth elliptical flowers: antherae yellow; 
(tigmas bluifh. 
28. Pafpalum decumbens, orproftrate pafpalum : fpikes 
folitary, on long capillary folitary or aggregate (talks ; 
flowers nearly orbicular, pointed : leaves ovato-lanceo¬ 
late, hairy. Gathered in dry fandy mountainous fitua- 
tions, on the weft fide of Jamaica, by Dr. Swartz. The 
Items are procumbent, about a foot long, branched, 
leafy, (lender, fmooth, bent at the joints, apparently 
comprefled, though defcribed as cylindrical. Leaves 
rather broad, clothed, more or lefs, on both fides, with 
foft fcattered hairs. Flower-ftalks from one to five, 
from the (heaths of fome of the upper leaves, rather 
fhorter than the leaf, capillary, loofely fpreading, Ample, 
angular, downy. Flowers from fixteen to twenty, loofely 
imbricated, in two rows, on (hort ftalks, (lightly obovate, 
or very nearly orbicular, quite fmooth ; convex and al¬ 
moft liemifpherical, with flight furrows, on one fide ; 
quite flat, even, and riblefs, on the other. This flat fide 
is accompanied at the bafe with a fmall abrupt fcale, or 
imperfefi glume, like what Mr. Brown mentions in P. 
orbiculare ; which appears to us to bring the prefent fpe¬ 
cies very near indeed to Panicum. The receptacle is 
narrow and convex, fmooth, except at the bafe; by no 
means of the leafy dilated form ufual in Pafpalum. 
PASPAR'DO, a town of Italy, in the department of 
the Adda and Oglio : four miles north of.Breno. 
PASPA'YA, a town of South-America, in the vice¬ 
royalty of Buenos Ayres: fixty miles fouth of La Plata. 
PAS'QUA, a town of Mexico, in the province of 
Xalifco, fituated at the mouth of a river which runs into 
the Pacific Ocean : forty-five miles weft-north-weft: of La 
Purification. Lat. 20. 5. N. 
PASQUA'RO, or Utzila Pasouaro, a town of Mex¬ 
ico, and now capital of Mechoacan, fituated on the fouth 
fide of a large lake abounding in fifli. The population 
confifts of 500 families of Spaniards and Mulattoes, and 
2000 families of Indians, chiefly occupied in fugar-mills, 
and the neighbouring copper-mines : 120 miles weft of 
Mexico. Lat. 19. 50. N. 
PAS'QUE-FLOWER, f. [pulfatilla, Latin.] See Ane¬ 
mone. —The wild anemony is called p ofque-flower, from 
the pafchal folemnity of our Saviour’s death. Stuhely's 
Paleeogr. Sacra. 
PASQUETAN'K, or Pasquotank, a county of North- 
Carolina, north of Albemarle Sound, with 7674. inhabi¬ 
tants, including 2295 (laves. 
PASQUETAN'K, a river of North-Carolina, which 
rifes in Difmal Swamp, and runs into Albemarle Sound. 
PAS'QUIER (Stephen), a celebrated lawyer and man 
of letters, was born at Paris in 1528. Having been edu¬ 
cated for the bar, he was, at a proper time, admitted an 
advocate in the Parliament of Paris, and became diftin- 
guifhed as one of the mod eloquent pleaders of his time, 
as he really was one of the mod learned men of the age. 
He (hone particularly in the caufes which he pleaded 
againft the Jefuits, who, he contended, ought not only 
to be excluded from the univerfity, but banifhed wholly 
from the kingdom. The firft part of the fentence was 
obtained, chiefly through his means; for the latter, the 
times were not yet ripe. One of Pafquier’s chief objec¬ 
tions to this fociety was the infringement made by its 
vow upon the royal authority, of which he was always a 
mod zealous fupporter. His loyalty was rewarded by 
Henry III. with the poll of advocate-general of the 
chamber of accompts, which he exercifed with great 
credit, and tranfmitted to his elded fon. Notwithftand- 
ing the warmth of his pleadings, and his fatirical vein 
in writing, he was mild and benevolent in private life, 
of pleafing manners, and lively converfation. He mar¬ 
ried three wives; and his reafons are afiigned in a Latin 
epigram : 
The firft for her perfon ; the next for her purfe ; 
The third for a warming-pan, doflrefs, and nurfe. 
And this, we believe, may be pretty well applied to mod 
fecond and third marriages. Having enjoyed all thefe 
comforts, he died, at length, with great compofure, in 
1615, at the age of eighty-feven. Pafquier was a copious 
waiter both in verfe and profe. His poems are in the La¬ 
tin and French languages : the former reckoned by much 
the bed, as is generally the cafe with thofe who have no 
real genius for poetry, the want of which is beft con¬ 
cealed under the veil of a dead language. The fubjeft 
of one of his French poems, which became the parent of 
a whole collection of verfes, affords a remarkable example 
of the fportive levity which in that nation mixes itfelf 
with the mod ferious concerns and characters : happening 
to defcry a flea upon the bofom of mademoifelle des 
Roches at the great aflizes of Poitiers in 1588, he wrote 
fome lines on the occafion, which fet to. work all the 
Latin and French poets in France, and produced a mif- 
cellany entitled, “ La Puce des Grands Jours de Poitiers.” 
The molt important of Pafquier’s works is his “ Recher- 
ches fur la France,” of which he himfelf publifhed leven 
books, and three more were added after his death from 
his papers. The beft edition is that of 1665, folio. His 
“ Letters,” of which the beft edition is that of du Chefne, 
in 5 vols. 8vo. 1619, are alfo full of curious anecdotes 
and remarks. His “Catechifme des Jefuites,” oCfavo, 
1602, is a very fevere and rather coarfe attack upon the 
founders and principles of that author, againft which lie 
was ready to adopt the 1110ft: exaggerated and improbable 
tales. It cannot be denied, however, that he entertained 
juft ideas of the probable confequences of their political 
fyftem. One of his unavowed writings was “Exhorta¬ 
tions aux Princes, See. pour obvier aux Seditions qui 
femblent nous menacer pour le Fait de la Religion,” 8vo. 
1552 ; the objeCt of which is to prove the neceftity of per¬ 
mitting the free exercife of both religions. 
Nicholas, fecond fon of Stephen Pafquier, a mafter of 
requefts, left a volume of Letters, replete with hiftorical 
anecdotes. Gen. Blog. 
PAS'QUIL, Pas'ouin, or Pasoutna'de, f. [from Paf- 
qnino , a ftatue at Rome, to which they affix any lampoon 
or paper of fatirical obfervation. SeePASouiN.] A lam¬ 
poon.—The pafquils, lampoons, and libels, we meet with 
now-a-days, are a fort of playing with the four-and- 
twenty letters, without fenfe, truth, or wit. Taller. —The 
pafquinade was a witty one, but the event turned the 
point of it againft the party by which it was made. Lord 
Lyttleton on the Conv. of St. Paul. 
The Grecian wits who fiitire firft began, 
Were pleafant pafquins on the life of man. Dryden. 
To PAS'QUIL, or Pasouin, v.a. To lampoon.—They 
are grievoully vexed with thefe pafquilling libels and fa- 
tires. Burton's Anat. of Mel. —Not that any man defires to 
fee himfelf pa/quined and affronted. Dryden's Ded. of the 
D. of Giiife. 
PAS'QUILLER, f A lampooner.—Adrian the fixth, 
pope, was fo highly offended and grievoully vexed with 
pafquillers at Rome, that he gave command that fta¬ 
tue (hould be demoliflied. Burton's Anat. of Mcl. —Any 
triobolary pafquiller is licenfed to throw dirt in the faces 
of fovereign princes, in open printed language: but I 
hope the times will mend. Howell's Letters. 
PAS'QUIN, a mutilated ftatue at Rome, in a corner of 
the 
