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growth is rapid, fize rather inferior to the lad, and fcent 
very offenlive. The volva refembles that of Ph. cnninus. 
Stalk rather curved, hollow, very tender and cellular, of 
a delicate flefh-colour at the bafe, which becomes deeper 
afterwards. The greatelt peculiarity of this fpecies is the 
(talk having five angles, and the red head being deeply 
divided into as many oblong portions, all cohering, and 
cemented, as it were, by the greenifh vifcid fluid which 
envelopes the feeds. Infers are faid to devour this fun¬ 
gus as loon as it comes in their way. It is reported to vary 
greatly in fize in various parts of China; and in fome 
to be eatable, though in others poifonous. Perhaps fe- 
veral fpecies are confounded under the above name. The 
afhes of the burnt fungus are elteemed ferviceable if 
fprinkled over cancerous ulcers. 
7. Phallus Hadriani, or finooth Dutch ftink-horn : 
(talk cylindrical, fpotted with grey; head fmooth and 
even, with a prominent dilated orifice. This is faid by 
Dodonaeus to grow on the fand-hills which border the 
coaft of Holland, amongft carices. It is reprefented with 
a double volva, an even, not cellular, ftalk and head, the 
latter with a prominent wide mouth. As no recent au¬ 
thor feems to have ebferved this fpecies, u j e cannot but 
fuppofe it a variety, or perhaps mifreprefentation, of the 
Ph. fcetidus, which is found on our Norfolk coafl, oppo- 
fite to Holland, in the fituations mentioned. The fpecific 
name alludes to Hadrianus Junius, who has defcribed the 
plant in a copy of Latin verfes printed by Dodonseus. 
PHAL'SBURG, a town of France, in the department 
of the Meurte, founded in the year 1570, and fortified by 
Vauban in the year 1680 : four miles eaftnorth-eaft of 
Sarrebourg, four weft of Savern. 
PHAL'FI, or Phaltiel, fon of Lailh. He married 
Michal, after Saul had taken her from David, (1 Sam. 
xxv. 44.) but David afterwards took her away from 
Phalti; (2 Sam. iii. 15.) She may be confidered as di¬ 
vorced from David after the circumftance mentioned 
2 Sam. vi. 20-23. an d ^ m d no child until the day of her 
death , i. e. by David: but we read (2 Sam. xxi. 8-14.) of 
“ the five fons of Michal, whom Jhe brought up for Adried 
the fon of Barzillai,” and whom the king delivered up, 
with two other of Saul’s grandfons, to the Gibeonites, to 
be hanged before the Lord; after which we are told that 
God was intreatedfor the land. 
PHA'NAiUS, a promontory of the ifland of Chios, 
famous for its wines. It was called after a king of the 
fame name, who reigned there. 
PHANAGO'RA, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Caucafus, at the mouth of the Kuban, on the coafl: of 
the Black Sea. The Tartars call this place Taman. It 
has no harbour: fixty miles eaft of Theodolia. Lat. 
45 - N. 1 on. 36. 40. E. 
PHAN'AUS, one of the names of Apollo. 
PHAN'ERA,/. in botany. See Bauhinia fcandens. 
PHAN'OCLES, an elegiac poet of Greece, who wrote 
a poem upon that unnatural fin of which Socrates is ac- 
cufed. He fupported that Orpheus had been the firft who 
difgraced himfelf by that filthy indulgence. Some of his 
fragments are remaining. 
PHANODE'MUS, an hiftorian who wrote on the an¬ 
tiquities of Attica. 
PHANTA'SIA, a daughter of Nicarchus of Memphis 
in Egypt. Some have fuppofed that fhe wrote a poem on 
the Trojan war, and another on the return of Ulyfles to 
Ithaca, from which compofitions Homer copied the 
greateft part of his Iliad and Odyffey, when he vifited 
Memphis, where they were depofited. 
PHANTASM, or Phantas'ma,/ [ phantafma , Gr. and 
Lat. fonto me, Fr.J Vain and airy appearance; fomething 
appearing to imagination.—They believe, and they be¬ 
lieve atnifs ; becaufe they be but phantafms, or apparitions. 
Ralegh's Hijl. 
A phantafm, a monarch©, and one that makes fport 
To the prince and his book-mates. Shaltefpeare, 
P H A 
All the interim is 
Like a phantafma or a hideous dream. Shakefpeare. 
PHANTASMAGORIA,/. [Greek.] A term which 
denotes the railing of fpe&res, is a fpecies of magic lantern, 
exhibited on a large fcale, and projecting an image on a 
femi-tranfparent fereen of taffeta, inftead of a wall. For 
the principle of the conftruftion, fee the article Optics, 
vol. xvii. p. 653. 
PHANTAS'TIC. See Fantastic. 
PHAN'TASY. See Fantasy. 
PHAN'TOM, f. [ fantome , Fr.] A fpeftre; an appa¬ 
rition.—-If he cannot help believing that fuch things he 
faw and heard, he may ftill have room to believe that what 
this airy phantom faid is not abfolutely to be relied on. 
At ter bury. 
A conftant vapour o’er the palace flies; 
Strange phantoms riling as the miffs arife; 
Dreadful as hermits’ dreams in haunted fhades. 
Or bright as vifions of expiring maids. Pope. 
A fancied vifion.—Reftlefs and impatient to try every 
overture of prefent happinefs, he hunts a phantom he can 
never overtake. Rogers. 
As Pallas will’d, along the fable fkies, 
To calm the queen, the phantom filter flies. Pope. 
PHAN'UEL, [Heb. the vifion of God.] A man of the 
tribe of Afher, the father of a holy widow and prophetefs 
called Anna, who was in the temple when our Saviour 
was prefented there by his parents. Luke ii. 36, 37, 38. 
PHA'ON, a young man of Mytilene, in the ifland of 
Lefbos, received from Venus, as fable reports, an alabafter 
vafe filled with an effence which had the virtue of con¬ 
ferring beauty. Fie had no fooner anointed his body 
with it than he became the mod beautiful of men. The 
ladies of Mytilene fell defperately in love with him ; and 
the celebrated Sappho threw he riel f down a precipice be¬ 
caufe he would not encourage her paflion. He is faid to 
have been killed by a hufband who furprifed him with his 
wife. We have in Ovid a Letter from Sappho to Phaon, 
which Pope has tranflated into Englifh verfe. 
PHA'RAs, or Phar.es, in ancient geography, a town in 
the eaftern part of Achaia, on the river Melas, diftinguilh- 
ed by a variety of beautiful ornaments. It had a ftatue 
of Mercury Agoreus; and oppofite to it another ftatue, 
which reprefented the goddefs Vefta; and it was famous 
for its oracles. 
PHA'RiE, a town of Meflenia, on the Meffenian gulf, 
north-weft of Cardamyla. Its foundation is alcribed to 
Phares, the fon of Mercury and Philodamaea, one of the 
daughters of Danaus. Among otherdivinities reverenced 
in this place were Nicomachus and Gorgazus, fons of Ma- 
chaon. They had both governed this city after the death 
of their father, to whom, as well as themfelves was attri¬ 
buted the art of healing maladies. Flence arofe the vene¬ 
ration paid in this place to demi-gods. Their temples 
were full of the richeft prefents, and almoft conftantly 
emitted the incenfe of facrifices. Hr-re was a beautiful 
temple of Fortune. Pbarae was fituated at the diftance of 
fix ftadia from the fea, and near it was a facred grove de¬ 
dicated to Apollo Carneus; and in this grove a fountain. 
PHARAMBA'RA, in ancient geography, a town of 
Alia, in the interior of Media, between Tigrana and Ta- 
chafara. 
PHA'RAMOND. See the article France, vol. vii. 
p. 649. 
PHA'RAN, a defert of Arabia Petrasa, near Kadefh- 
Barnea. It was in a place of this defert, called Rothma, 
that the Ifraelites had their 15th ftation. 
PHA'RAN, a town of Arabia Petrsea, near the Gulf 
of Suez, once the fee of a biftiop, of which little remains 
at prefent befides a convent: forty miles north of Tor. 
PHA'RAOH, a common name of the kings of Egypt, 
till after the conqueft of that country by Alexander the 
Great, See the article Egypt, vol. vi. p. 290, 1. 
PHA'ROAH, 
