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P H E 
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South Wales. A greenhoufe plant at Paris, flowering in 
the beginning of i'ummer. Stein ftvrubby, ereft, much 
branched, a yard high. Leaves alternate, about an inch 
long, lanceolate, acute, entire, on fliort Italks ; their up¬ 
per furface dark green, fmooth, dotted ; under clothed 
with minute whitifli fcales. Umbels at the ends of the 
branches, folifary, of fix or eight fmall yellowifti flowers, 
whofe ftamens are capillary to the very bafe, and twice as 
long as the petals; the ftyle is rather fliorter than the 
ftamens. Ventenat did not perceive any teeth or divifions 
to the calyx. The leaves when bruited are aromatic. 
2. Phebalium dentatum, or toothed phebalium : leaves 
linear, toothed, revolute; hoary beneath ; umbels axil¬ 
lary. Brought by Gen. Grofe from tome part of New 
Holland. A larger flirub, apparently, than the preceding; 
the branches round, hoary, with extremely-minute ftarry 
fcales. Leaves fcattered, about two inches long, on fliort 
ftalks, linear, bluntith, revolute, rather diftantly toothed; 
upper tide dark fliining green, befprinkled with glandu¬ 
lar dots; under white or hoary, with a fort of mealy pu- 
befcence, not difcernibly fcaly. Umbels about the upper 
part of the branches, axillary, on dark-coloured ftalks, 
much fhorter than the leaves, flightly hoary like the 
branches, each of eight or ten pale yellowifti flowers. 
Thefe in every part anfwer to Ventenat’s defcription and 
reprefentation of the preceding, except that the calyx is 
very manifeftly five-cleft. 
3. Phebalium argenteum, or filvery-fcaled phebalium, 
(Erioftemon fquamea, Labill. Nov. Holl. t. 141.) leaves 
lanceolate, entire, naked on both tides. Clufters axillary, 
compound, fcaly. Gathered by Mr. Menzies near King 
George’s Sound, on the weft coaft of New Holland. La- 
billardiere found his at the cape of Van Diemen. He 
fpeaks of it as a tree, from five to feven fathoms high, 
with fpreading branches, angular and fcaly when young. 
Leaves two or three inches long, bright green, fomewhat 
coriaceous, lanceolate, flat, entire, about half an inch 
wide, naked on both tides, except in a very young ftate, 
when the back is fcaly like the branches. Flower-ftalks 
much fliorter than the leaves, racemofe, compound, many- 
flowered, angular, entirely covered, as well as the calyx, 
under fide of the petals, and the germens, with the moft 
beautiful, crowded, convex, fnow-white, filvery fcales. 
The upper furface of the petals is fmooth, naked, and 
feems to be white. Stamens but half the length of the 
corolla, very flightly dilated at tbeirbafe, fmooth in every 
part; ftyle fliorter than the ftamens. Capfules, accor¬ 
ding to Labillardiere, five, ovate, flightly comprefled, 
pointed, gibbous at the upperedge wherethey burft, lined 
with an elailic cartilaginous tunic to the feed, of the fame 
form, and burlting in the fame manner. Seed folitary, 
nearly kidney-fliaped, black and fmooth. 
PHE'BE, or Phcebe, [<poi£o$, Gr. bright, fliining.] A 
woman’s name. A deaconefs of the port of Corinth, 
called Cenchrea. St. Paul had a particular efteem for this 
holy woman ; and Theodoret thinks theapoftie lodged at 
her lioufe for fome time, while he continued in or near 
Corinth. It is thought fhe brought to Rome the Epiftle 
he wrote to the Romans, wherein (lie is commended and 
recommended in fo advantageous a manner. He fays, 
(Rom. xvi. 1, 2.) “I commend unto you Pliebe our Af¬ 
ter, which is a fervantof the church which is at Cenchrea, 
that ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh faints, and 
that ye aflift her in whatfoever bufinefs file hath need of 
you ; for (lie hath been a fuccourer of many, and of my- 
l'elf alfo.” Some moderns have advanced a notion, that 
Phebe was wife to St. Paul; but none of the ancients 
have faid any thing like it. It is thought, in quality of 
deaconefs, (he was employed by the church in fome minif- 
trations fuitable to her hex and condition ; as to vifit and 
inftruCr the Chriftian women, to attend them in their 
ficknefs, and diftribute alms to them. 
PHEDOROV'KA, a town of Rufiia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Ekaterinoflav, on the Bug: iixty miles north- 
weft of Cherlon. 
PHEDOSIEV'KA, a town of Ruflia, in the country 
of the Cofacks, on theChoper: forty-four miles weft of 
Archadinflcaia. 
PHEER, f. A companion. See Fear. 
PHEER FUR'RID, a town of Hindooftan, in Berar: 
twenty-five miles eaft-north-eaft of Notchengong. 
To PHEESE, v. a. To comb; to fleece; to curry. See 
To Feaze. —An he be proud with me, I’ll pheefe his 
pride. S/iakefpeare. 
PHEGE'A, in ancient geography, a town of the Pelo- 
ponnefus, in Arcadia. 
PHE'GOR, orPEOR. See Baal-Peor, vol. ii. 
PHE'GOS, a town of Greece, in Theflaly, fituated near 
the place where was an oracle of Jupiter, which was af¬ 
terwards transferred to Epirus. 
PHE'IA, a town of Triphylia, north-weft of Letrini, 
at the bottom of a fmall gulf, which had a port and a 
fmall ifland. 
PHELD'SCHANETZ, a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Caucafus: twenty miles fouth-eaft of Kizliar. 
PHE'LIN,/a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Riga, on the river Phelin : ninety-fix miles north of Riga. 
Lat. 58. 10. N. Ion. 25. 14. E. 
PHE'LIN, a river of Ruflia, which runs from Lake 
Virtz to the Baltic, which it enters at Pernov. 
PI-IELIPAs'A, f. [a genus of Tournefort’s, reftored 
by Desfontaines, after it had been confounded, by Lin¬ 
naeus and his followers, as well as by Juflieu, either 
under Lathraea or Orobanche. (See Lathr^ea Phelypaea, 
vol. xii. p. 265.) The name was given in honour of the 
family of Phelipeaux, two of whom Tournefort mentions 
as the Mcecenates of his time.] In botany, a genus of the 
clafs didynamia, order angiofpermia, natural order of 
perfonatae, Linn, (pediculares, Jnjf.) Generic charafters 
—Calyx: perianthium inferior, bell-fliaped,in five, rather 
deep, ovate, obtufe, ereft, flightly-unequal, fegments, per¬ 
manent. Corolla: of one petal, ringent; tube flightly 
curved, ample, dilated upwards ; limb in five fliort, broad, 
rounded, imbricated fegments, the lower one moft diftant, 
with an elevated two-lobed palate, and intermediate lon¬ 
gitudinal furrow. Stamina : filaments four, awl-lhaped, 
about as long as the tube, two of them longed; antherae 
thick, oblong, hairy, approaching each other, and coher¬ 
ing by their pubefcence, with two acute lobes. Piftillum: 
germen fuperior, ovate; ftyle cylindrical, the length of 
the ftamens; ftigma drooping, thick, of two obtufe lobes. 
Pericarpium : capfule ovate, comprefled, of two cells and 
two valves, the partitions from the centre of each valve. 
Seeds numerous, minute, roundifli.— Ejfential Character. 
Calyx deeply five-cleft, inferior ; corolla ringent; limb in 
five fliort rounded fegments; the lowermoft with an 
elevated palate; antherae cohering ; capfule of two 
cells and two vaives ; feeds numerous. There are three 
fpecies. 
1. Phelipaea coccinea, or fcarlet pheliptea : (Ph.foliata, 
Linn. Tranf. vol. x. Lathraea Phelypaea | 3 ; Linn. Sp. PI. 
844.) Stem Angle-flowered ; three upper fegments of the 
calyx cohering. Gathered by Tournefort in the Levant; 
by Von Bieberftein on grafly hills, in the diftrift of Mount 
Caucafus bordering on Circaflia, and fome other places, 
flowering in May or June. Root parafitical, perennial. 
Stem one or more, quite Ample, a fpan high, brown, fcaly, . 
very like thofe of Orobanche major. Flower terminal, 
folitary, feflile, inclining toward one fide, thrice the fize 
of O. major, very handfome. Calyx the colour of the 
Item; its three upper fegments ereft, cohering, oblong, 
channelled ; the two lower longer and more acute, dire&ed 
forward, and applied to the tube of the corolla under the 
lower lip. Corolla beautiful; externally yellowifti, and 
clothed with rather vifcid pubefcence, as in Orobanche 
internally like velvet, and of the ricbeft fcarlet; with two 
large deep black fpots in the throat. Bieberjlein in Ann. 
Bot. ii. 447. 
The ipecimens of Ph. foliata, as defcribed by Mr, Lam¬ 
bert from the Herbarium of Profeflbr Pallas, rife from a 
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