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filled with loamy earth; placing them in the fhade till 
they have taken new root: then remove them into a 
fheltered fituation, there to remain till O&ober, when 
they muft be placed in the green-houfe, and treated as 
myrtles. Thofe alfo which produce feeds, or when they 
can be procured, may alfo be propagated that way. Sow 
them in autumn, foon after they are ripe, in fmall pots 
filled with light earth, plunged into an old bark-bed, 
under a common frame in winter. The plants will come 
tip in the fpring, and may be treated like the cuttings; 
but the feedling plants will grow more eredl, and make 
a handfomerappearance. The fecond fort will live abroad 
in common winters, in a dry foil and warm fituation ; 
but in hard frofts, the plants are frequently deftroyed ; 
one or two, therefore, (hould be kept in pots, and fhel¬ 
tered in winter. See Gnidia, Lachnea, Linum, Stel- 
lera, and Struthiola. 
PASS'ERO, or Passeri (Bernardino), an Italian ar- 
tift, was born at Rome fome time about the year 154.2, 
and refided there moll part of his life. In painting he 
poflefled fome talent, and appears to have imitated the 
Zuccheri ; but the attitudes of his figures are, to a cer¬ 
tain degree, forced and uneafy. In the Abecedario he 
is called an univerfal engraver, but for what reafon is 
not known, tinlefs it means, that he occafionally prac- 
tifed all the branches of that art which were then in 
vogue. It is certain that he has engraved a confiderable 
number of prints, which, in general, he firft etched, and 
afterwards finifhed with the graver, in a bold, eafy, and 
loofe, llyle. His works prove him to have been a man 
of ability; but his drawing is not always corred, nor 
are the characters of his heads al ways beautiful, or well 
chofen. The following are the names of a few of his 
■works, which are by no means uncommon: A Holy 
Family, where the Virgin is reprefented with a Bohemian 
bonnet, dated 1583, in 4-to. The Life of St. Bruno, re¬ 
prefented on feveral middling-fized upright plates, in 
4-to. and a confiderable number of Holy Families, Ma¬ 
donnas, and other pious fubje&s. 
PASSERO'E, a river of Pruflia, which runs into the 
Frifch HafF a little below Brauntberg. 
PASSER'G, a town of Pruflia, in the province of Na- 
tangen, on the Frifch HafF: twenty-two miles fouth-weft 
of Brandenburg. 
PASSER'G, a river of Pruflia. See Passarge. 
PASSE'RON I'SLANDS, a clufter of fmall iflands, 
in the Indian Sea, near the coafl of Africa. Lat. 11.10. S. 
PASSEROT'TI (Bartolomeo), an artift of Bologna, 
was a pupil of Zuccari, and a very ingenious painter; 
one of whofe works (a pi&ure of Tityus) was miftaken 
by the connoifFeurs of Bologna for a painting of Mi¬ 
chael Angelo; and whofe portraits were thought by 
Guido to have nearly approached thofe of Titian. He 
was a fkilful draftfman ; and aided in forming the Car¬ 
racci, particularly Agoltino, who made his lines in his 
penned drawings the guide of his graver. He compofed 
a book on anatomy and fymmetry: but was not always 
guided by his own directions ; allowing his better talents 
to bend to facility of execution, and loofenefs of manner. 
PASSIBIL'ITY, Jf [pajjibilite, Fr. from pafible.'] 
Quality of receiving imprefiions from external agents.— 
The lafl doubt, touching the pajjibility of the matter of 
the heavens, is drawn from the eclipfes of the fun and 
moon. Hahewill on Providence. 
PASS'IBLE, adj. [Fr. from pajjibilis, Lat.] Sufceptive 
of imprefiions from external agents.— Theodoret dif- 
puteth with great earneltnefs, that God cannot be faid 
tofufFer; but he thereby meaneth Chrift’s divine nature, 
againft Apollinarius, which held even Deity itfelf pajjible. 
Hooker. 
PASS'IBLENESS, f. Quality of receiving imprefiions 
from external agents.—It drew after it the herefyof the 
paffiblenefs of the Deity ; the deity of Chrill was become, 
in their conceits, the fame nature with the humanity 
that was pafiible. Brerewoocl. 
PAS 
PASSIDAGPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Oade r 
twenty-four miles north of Manickpour. 
PASSIFLO'RA, f. [a name altered by Linnjeus from 
the FlosPafjionisoi preceding authors. This was applied 
to the beautiful genus in queftion, known univerfally at 
prefent by the appellation of pafiion-flowers, becaufe the 
inftruments of Chrift’s pafiion were thought to be repre¬ 
fented in the parts of fructification : the five ftamens 
were compared to his five wounds ; the three ftyles, more 
aptly, to the nails by which he was fixed to the crofs; 
the column which elevates the germen to the crofs itfelf, 
or to the pillar to which he was bound ; and the rays of 
the neCtary to his crown of thorns.] In botany, a genus 
of the clafs gynandria, order pentandria, Linn, (pentan- 
dria trigynia, Schreb. Thunb. §•<?. monadelphia pentan¬ 
dria, Swartz, Wild. Cavan.) natural order of cucurbi- 
taceas. Generic characters—Calyx : perianthium five- 
parted, fiat, coloured. Corolla: petals five, lemilanceo- 
late, flat, blunt, of the fame fize and form with the ca¬ 
lyx. NeCtary : a triple crown ; the outer longer, encir¬ 
cling the ftyle within the petals, more contracted above. 
Stamina : filaments five, awl-fliaped, faftened to a co¬ 
lumn at the bafe of the germ, and united at bottom, 
fpreading. Antherae incumbent, oblong, blunt. Pif- 
tillum : germen roundifh, placed on the apex of aftraight 
cylindrical column. Styles three, thicker above, fpread¬ 
ing; ftigmas capitate. Pericarpium : berry flertiy, fub- 
ovate, one-celled, pedicelled. Seeds ; very many, ovate, 
arilled. Receptacle of the feeds triple, growing longi¬ 
tudinally to the rind of the pericarp.— Ejjential Character. 
Styles three ; calyx five-leaved ; petals five ; neClary 
a crown; berry pedicelled. 
The fpecies of this genus are numerous. Linnaeus, in 
his diflertation de Pafliflora, published in 1745, and re¬ 
printed in the firft vol. of his Amcenitates, delcribes 22, 
with imperfeCt indications of 18 more. The leaves of 
thofe twenty-two, on which the fpecific differences 
chiefly depend, are there very neatly engraved. Twenty- 
fix fpecies are given in Sp. PI. ed. 2. and 28 only in the 
14th edition of Syft. Veg. Lamarck, in his Dictionary, 
(Grenadille,) has 35. Cavanilles in his tenth diflerta¬ 
tion defcribes 44, of which 31 are there figured. Will- 
denovv has 46. We have now 58. 
Thefe beautiful plants were unknown till the difcovery 
of America; and it is remarkable that every defcribed 
fpecies is exclufively of South-American or Weft-Indian 
origin, except two found in Virginia and Florida, one 
in the remote counties of New Caledonia and Norfolk- 
ifland, and one in Cochin-china. The whole are difpofed 
in four feCtions, by the forms of their leaves. 
I. Leaves undivided. 
1. Pafliflora ferratifolia, or notch-leaved paflion-flower : 
leaves ovate ferrate. This is a perennial fhrubby fpecies ; 
the Items are round ; the younger ones very llightly vil- 
lofe, and climbing very high : the footftalks of the leaves 
are furnifhed with two pair of glandules: the leaves are 
ovate, fmooth, and flightly ferrated round their whole 
outline : the peduncles are one-flowered and folitary. 
The calyx is outwardly green, inwardly whitifh ; petals 
pale purple ; the filaments of the neCtary deep purple at 
their bafe, from thence bluilh, and at length pale ; an- 
therae yellow; ftigmas greenifli. The flowers have an 
extremely agreeable odour. Mr. Miller has wholly 
omitted this fpecies in his defcriptions, though he has 
inferted it in his lift of fpecies. Native of the Weft In¬ 
dies. Introduced in 1731, by William Houftoun, M. D. 
It flowers from May to OCtober. 
2. Pafliflora pallida, or pale paflion-flower: leaves ovate 
quite entire, petioles biglandular. Stem perennial, long, 
round, branching, climbing by folitary tendrils. Leaves 
fmooth, oppolite. Flowers pale, large, axillary, two to¬ 
gether: corolla five-petalled, flat, with a crown ; berry 
egg-lhaped, fmall. Native of Brafil, the ifland of Domi¬ 
nica, and Cochin-china, 
3. Pafliflora 
