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MUHL GRO'S, a river of Auftria, which runs into 
the Danube twelve miles above Lintz. 
MUHL KLEI'N, a river of Auftria, which runs into 
the Danube fixteen miles above Lintz. 
MUHLAU'. See Mylau. 
MUHL'BACH, a river of Saxony, which runs into the 
Elbe one mile fouth-eaft of Belgern. 
MUHL'BACH, a river of Germany, which runs into 
the Neckar two miles north of Sultz. 
MUHL'BACH, a river of Germany, which runs into 
the Lahn near Naffau. 
MUHL'BACH, a river of France, which runs into the 
Rhine two miles north of Worms. 
MUHL'BERG, a town of Germany, in the territory 
of Erfurt: twelve miles fouth-weft of Erfurt. 
MUHL'BERG, a town of Saxony, in the margravate 
of Meifien, fituated on the Elbe : it contains five churches, 
a caftle, and a college : nineteen miles north-weft of Meif- 
fen, and thirty-two north-weft of Drefden. Lat. 51. 25. N. 
Ion. 13.15. E. 
MUHL'BOCK, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Glogau: four miles fouth-weft of Schwibufin. 
MUHL'BURG, a town of the grand duchy of Baden : 
fix miles weft of Durlach. 
MUHL'DENSTEIN, a town of Saxony: three miles 
north of Bitterfeld. 
MUHL'DORF, or Mi'elesdore, a town of Saxony, 
in theVogtland: eight miles weft-north-weft of Plauen, 
and feventy-four weft-fouth-well of Drelden. Lat. 50. 
27. N. Ion. 12. E. 
MUHL'DORF, a town of Germany, in the principality 
of Culmbach : five miles fouth-fouth-weft of Hof. 
MU'HLENBACH, a river of Germany, which runs 
into the Aller eight miles weft of Zell. 
MU'HLENBERG, a county of Kentucky, forty-eight 
miles long, and thirty-one broad; watered by the Green 
2nd Muddy rivers. 
MUHLENBER'GIA, f. [fo named by Schreber, in ho¬ 
nour of the Rev. Henry Muhlenberg, D. D. of Lancafter, 
in Pennfylvania, who difcovered the genus in queftion, 
and who alfo greatly enriched the Species Mufcorum of 
Hedwig by his communications. This gentleman is the 
author of a treatife on North-American Willows, in Sims 
and Konig’s Annals of Botany. His name occurs fre¬ 
quently as the contributor and defcriber of new plants, in 
Willdenow’s Species Plantarum.] In botany, a genus of 
the clafs triandria, order digynia, natural order gramina, 
or grades. Generic characters—Calyx: glume of one 
valve, minute, lateral, emarginate. Corolla : of two near- 
ly-equal valves ; the outermoit lanceolate, long, acute, an¬ 
gular, awned, hairy at the bale, embracing in its cavity 
the inner one, which is rather (horter and narrower, li¬ 
near, (harp-pointed ; neftary of two fmall, ovate, gibbous, 
obliquely-truncated, leaflets. Stamina: filaments three, 
capillary, (horter than the corolla ; antherae linear. Pif- 
tillum : germen fuperior, ovate; ftyles two, capillary ; 
ltigmas feathery. Pericarpium : none, except the corolla, 
in which the feed is encloled. Seed : folitary, oblong, 
pointed.— EjJ'cnlial Character. Calyx of one valve, lateral, 
minute; corolla of two valves. There are two fpecies. 
1, Muhlenbergia diftufa, or fpreading muhlenbergia: 
ftem diftufe, branched ; leaves linear awi-fhaped. Root 
perennial. Stems fpreading, partly procumbent, much 
branched, leafy, (lender, comprefled, fmooth, with fre¬ 
quent joints. Leaves folitary at every joint, (lightly 
fpreading, linear-lanceolate, or fomewhat awl-ftiaped, an 
inch or two long, and a line broad, taper-pointed, flat, 
entire, minutely downy, very finely ftriated, furnifhed 
with one or two lateral ribs at each fide of the mid-rib; 
Jheaths about as long as the leaves, clofe, ftriated, fmooth, 
the lower ones moll comprefled. Stipules (mail, membra¬ 
nous, crowning the contracted orifice of the (heath, ac¬ 
companied by a tuft of fine (hort hairs. Panicles termi¬ 
nal, ereCt, much branched, dole, three or four inches long, 
pale green; their (talks and breaches triangular, finely 
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downy. Flowers -fmall, refembling thofe of an Agroftis 
at firft fight, each about half a line long without the awn, 
which is ftraight, rough, and about twice the length of 
the flower. Glumes of the corolla with a few briftles at 
the bafe, angular, and ftrongly keeled ; their keels rough. 
Antherae dark purple. Native of Pennfylvania. 
2. Muhlenbergia ereCta, or upright broad-leaved Muh¬ 
lenbergia : ftem erect, Ample; leaves broadly lanceo¬ 
late, many-ribbed. Native of Pennfylvania ; fent by Dr. 
Muhlenberg with the foregoing, from which it differs 
widely in appearance and characters, though there is the 
ftriCteft coincidence in the ftruCture and habit of the fruc¬ 
tification. Root perennial, tufted, hard, and rather woody, 
its buds invdted with imbricated, poliflied, pale, ftrongly- 
ribbed, fcales. Stems two feet high, ereCt, (lender, un¬ 
branched, leafy, angular, jointed, fmooth, except a few 
denfe deflexed hairs under each joint. Leaves rather 
fpreadipg, three or four inches long, and half an inch or 
more in breadth, flat, taper-pointed, rounded at the bafe, 
furnilhed with a mid-rib, and about four (mailer ribs on 
each fide of it, which laft are finely hairy underneath ; the 
intermediate Arise of the leaf are (till more minutely rough 
or downy. Panicle ftraight, ereCt, clofe, of much fewer 
flowers than the firft fpecies, but thofe are ten times as 
large, refembling fome Bromus or Feftuca in habit. Their 
glumes are hairy at the bafe, ftrongly fringed, and all the 
angles are rough. Schreber Gen. 44. 
MU'HLENDONCK, My'lendonck, or Mil'len- 
noNCK, a town of France, in the department of the 
Roer : fixteen miles north of Juliers. 
MUHL'HAUSEN, a town of Pruflia, in the province 
of Oberland : forty-fix miles fouth-weft of Koniglberg: 
and fourteen eaft of Elbing. Lat. 54. 10. N. Ion. 19.40. E. 
MUHL'HAUSEN, or Mulhausen, a city of Saxony, 
in Thuringia, on the Unftrutt; free and imperial till 1802, 
when it was afligned to the king of Pruflia, and by him 
ceded to the kingdom of Weftphaliaat the peace of Tilfit; 
but is reftored to him by the treaty of Vienna, 1815. It 
is divided into Upper and Lower Town, and contains two 
Lutheran churches, and a Roman-catholic foundation of 
Auguftine nuns. It is fifty miles fouth of Goflar, and 
twenty-four north-north-weft of Erfurt. Lat. 51. 10. N. 
Ion. 10. 32. E. 
MUHL'HAUSEN, a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper Rhine, on the Ille : fixteen miles north-weft 
Bale, and twenty fouth of Colmar. Lat. 47.45. N. Ion. 
7. 25. E. 
MUHL'HAUSEN, a town of Bavaria, in the princi¬ 
pality of Aichftatt : feven miles fouth-eaft of Aichftatt. 
MUHL'HAUSEN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Schlan, on the Muldau : ten miles north of Prague. 
MUHL'HAUSEN, or Mileskow, a town of Bohemia, 
in the circle of Bechin : nine miles north-north-weft of 
Bechin, and thirty-eight fouth of Prague. Lat. 49. 38. N. 
Ion. 14. 13. E. 
MUHLRO'SE. See Mulrose. 
MU'HOW, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leit- 
meritz : thirteen miles weft of Leitmeritz. 
MUHR, a town of Germany, in the margravate of 
Anfpach, on fhe Altmuhl: three miles north-north-weft 
of Gunzenhaufen. 
MUHR, or Murr, a river of Wurtemberg, which 
runs into the Neckar a little below Marpach. 
MUHRAU'. SeeMuEHRAU. 
MU'HRECK, a town of the duchy of Stiria, on the 
Muehr : twelve miles north of Pettau, and nine weft of 
Rackelburg. 
MUJA'CO, a kingdom in the interior parts of Afpica, 
fituated to the north of Anziko, and about 450 miles 
from the fea. 
MUJAX'AR, or Muxacra, a feaport-town of Spain,, 
in the province of Grenada, fituated on a fmall bay of the 
Mediterranean. This town is fuppofed to be the ancient 
Murgis. It is thirty-five miles north-eaft of Almeria, 
and eighty eaft of Grenada. Lat. 37. 5. N, ion. 2.1, W. 
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