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fhort fcaly root, a little fibrous below, to from ten to 
eighteen inches in height; the Items lcriated and a little 
fiexuofe, leafy towards the bafe, but naked a conliderable 
way below the flower. The fpecirrtens from Caucal'us, 
when magnified, appear a little villofe ; thofe from Tauria 
are fliining, and without any fort of pubefcence. The 
calyx is bilabiate, with the upper lip three-cleft, the di- 
vifions approaching each other and a little incurved ; the 
under lip is deeply two-parted, with the divifions more 
obtufe and longer than in the upper lip. The tube of the 
corolla is curved, the limb bilabiate with the upper lip 
two-parted, the divifions nearly oval, and the lower lip 
three-parted and confiderably longer. The filaments are 
broad, comprefled, and approaching in pairs, two of them 
confiderably fliorter, and are inferted in the tube of the 
corolla. The antherac are large, with two cells, and of a 
fhape nearly refembling a heart inverted with a double 
point. The ftyle is round and incurved ; the ftigtna very 
large, and nearly hemifpherical. The capfule is oval, with 
the feeds affixed to four flefhy branched receptacles ad¬ 
hering longitudinally to its fides, and ramifying through¬ 
out the whole of its interior, but without appearing to 
unite with one another. The feeds are very fmall, nearly 
ovai, fliining, and exceedingly numerous, covering every 
lobe and finus of the receptacles. This is reprefented on 
the annexed Engraving, at fig. i. and 2. which, if conti¬ 
nuous, would exhibit the Hera about its natural height; 
from the Linn. Trnnf. vol. x. 
2. Phelipaea lutea, or yellow phelipasa: (Lathrsea Phe- 
liptea a. ; Linn. Sp. PL 844.) Stem many-flowered ; tube 
of the corolla contradled below ; inflated above. Native 
of Portugal, Barbary, and Arabia. Gathered at Algiers, 
by Bfouflbnet and Durand ; on the moift fandy banks of 
the riverEi hammah, near Mafcar, byDesfontaines. Forfkall 
lays it grows parafrtically on old roots. The ftein of this 
very noble plant is ereCt, quite Ample, fmooth, fucculent, 
fcaly, from one to two feet high ; its upper half confiding 
of a clofe cylindrical fpike of numerouslarge yellow flowers, 
fpreading every w ; ay; it has often thirty flowers in a 
Ipike. 
3. Phelipsa violacea, or violet plielipaea: (Orobanche 
Phelipasa, VYilld. iii. 352.) Stem many-flowered ; tube of 
the corolla funnel-fhaped. Gathered by Desfontaines, in 
the fandy defert of Africa, near Tozzer. Much refembling 
the laft, except that the flowers are violet-coloured, with 
two yellow prominences on the palate. The re¬ 
gular fuelling of the tube from the bottom upwards is a 
mark of this fpecies. It isjuftly termed byits difcoverer‘ c a 
very beautiful plant,” flowering in winter. Desfont. 
Atlant. ii. 60. 
PHELIFEAU'X (John), one of the hiftorians of Quiet- 
ifm in France, was a native of Angers ; but the time of 
his birth is not known. He purfued his ftudies at Paris, 
where he diftinguilhed himfelf by his talents and literary 
proficiency, and took his degrees in divinity, to that of 
dodfop inclufive, with great applaule. Bofluet bifliop of 
Meaux, having heard him difpute a thefis at the Sorbonne, 
conceived a very favourable opinion of his abilities, and 
engaged him to become preceptor to his nephew', M. Bof- 
luet, afterwards bifliop of Troyes. So w'ell fatisfied was 
the prelate with the manner in which Phelipeaux dif- 
charged the duties of his appointment, that he afterw’ards 
made him treafurer and canon of his cathedral church, 
official, foie grand-vicar, and fuperior of feveral religious 
communities. M. Phelipeaux was at Rome with his 
pupil, when the caufeof the celebrated M. Fenelon, arch- 
bilhop of Cambray, for writing his “Explication des 
Maximes des Saints fur la Vie Interieure,” was tried before 
the papal tribunal. To all the proceedings in this bufinefs 
lie paid a particular attention, and wrote down daily an 
account of what palled in the congregations. This journal 
lie incorporated in a work which he prepared fortheprefs 
before his death, but left it with an exprefs injunction, 
that it Ihould not be publilhed before the expiration of 
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twenty years after that event. It appeared in 1732 and 
1733, without the name of any place or printer, under the 
title of “ An Account of the Origin, Progrefs, and Con¬ 
demnation, of the Quietifm which was propagated in 
France,” i2tno. This is a curious performance, and well 
deferves the attention of the ecclefiaftical hiftoriarr, when 
w’riting concerning this fpecies of religious enthufiafm. 
But hefnould read it with caution, fince the author drew 
it up under the influence of ftrong prejudice againlt the 
archbifnop of Cambray, and in favour of his profecutors. 
This prejudice induced him to admit into it, without fuf- 
ficient evidence of their truth, fome anecdotes unfavour¬ 
able to the moral charafter of madame Guyon; which 
were clearly ffiovvn to be without foundation by M. de la 
Bletterie, in Three Letters to a Friend, &c. 1733, nmo. 
M. Phelipeaux died at a very advanced age, in the year 
17,08. From his manufcripts'were publilhed, in 1730, 
“ Difcourfes, in the form of Meditations, upon our Sa¬ 
viour’s Sermon on the Mount,” nmo. Gen. Biog. 
PHELIPPEAU'X (John), a learned French Jefuit, 
was the defcendant of a family of dillinCtion from Blois, 
and born at Angers in the year 1577. At the age of 
feventeen he went to Paris, where he entered the fociety 
of Jefus. After having finillied his noviciate, and gone 
through the claffes of philofophy and divinity, he was fent 
to Pontamouffon, where lie had the opportunity of ren¬ 
dering an important fervice to his order. He was there 
introduced to M. Fouquet de la Varenne, counfellor to 
the court, to whom he was related, as was likewife father 
Broffard, another member of the fociety, and the intimate 
friend of our author. In different interviews which thefe 
Jefuits had with La Varenne, they took occalion to lament 
the difgrace into which their fociety had fallen, as an 
order had been ilfued that they Ihould quit the kingdom. 
At length their reprefentations had fuch an effeCt upon 
La Varenne, that he offered them his bell fervices at 
court; which was a point gained of no little moment, as 
he Hood high in favour with king Henry IV. In com¬ 
pliance with his promife, he became zealous in his appli¬ 
cations to his majelly on behalf of the fociety, and was 
fo well feconded by Phelippeaux’s exertions through other 
channels, that their united efforts had great weight, with 
other confiderations, in producing the ediCl of Sept. 
1603, which re-ellablilhed the Jefuits in France. It is 
rather furprifing that Mezeray, who has dwelt pretty 
fully on the hiftory of that event, fliould have taken no 
notice whatever of the circumllances juft related. Father 
Phelippeaux, after filling the chairs of rhetoric and divi¬ 
nity in different femin’aries, preached with great accep¬ 
tability at Paris, Rouen, Rheirns, Lyons, and other prin¬ 
cipal French cities. He was made reCtor of the Jefuits’ 
college at Rouen; and the latter part of his life he de¬ 
voted to the diligent ftudy of the Holy Scriptures, and of 
the fathers. He died in 1643, about the age of fixty-fix. 
He was the author of, 1. Commentarii in duodecim Pro- 
phetas Minores, 4 vols. 1633. 2. Ofeas, primus inter 
Prophetas Cotnmentariis illullratus;-praemiffa eft Praefa- 
tio de Interpretationibus Bibliorum Grrecis, earumque 
variis Correftionibus, 1636, folio; and alfo of fome af- 
cetical pieces. Le Long's Bill. Sac. vol. ii. 
PHELLAN'DRIUM, f. [ufually derived from 
cork, and tempos, a man ; but, as fuch an etymology throws 
no light on the fignification of the word, and is actually 
without any meaning, Dr. Smith has fuggefted, that the 
firlt fyllable ought perhaps to be from <pv iXev, to deceive, 
in allufion to the dangerous qualities of the herb, and its 
refemblance to fome that are wholefome. This meaning 
is ftrengthened by Pliny’s comparing the leaves to Apium, 
for which if the Phellandrium were miftaken, the error 
would be very dangerous.] Water Hemlock ; in botany, 
a genus of the clafs pentandria, order digynia, natural 
order of umbellatae or unvbelliferas. Generic characters 
—Calyx: umbel univerfal manifold; partial fimilar. In¬ 
volucre univerfal none: partial feven-leaved; leaflets 
3 acute. 
