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38. Schoenus albus, or white-headed bog-rush.—Culm 
three-sided, leafy, flowers in bundles, leaves bristle-shaped. 
Root perennial, creeping.—Native of Europe, in bogs : it 
flowers in July and August. 
39. Schoenus gracilis, or slender bog-rush.—Culm three- 
sided, leafy, very long, filiform, spikes lateral, peduncled. 
Height from three to six feet.—Native of Jamaica, in the 
highest mountains. 
40. Schoenus setaceus, or bristle-stalked bog-rush.—Culm 
three sided, almost naked, leaves bristle-shaped, spikelets 
aggregate, flowers two-stamened. Height about a foot.— 
Native of the West Indies, in dry pastures, and Jamaica. 
41. Schoenus pusillus, or dwarf bog-rush.—Culm three- 
sided, naked, filiform, spikelets terminating, sub-fascicled, 
sessile, with a leaflet beneath, equalling the spike. Height 
about an inch. Roots capillary, simple.—Native of Jamaica. 
42. Schoenus capillaris.—Culm three sided, naked, ca¬ 
pillary, leaves capillary, spikelets fascicled, reflex, invo- 
lucred, in volucret two-leaved. About a foot high.—Native 
of Hispaniola : flowering in spring. 
Five new species of Schoenus are described in Vahl’s 
Eclogae Americanae. 
SCHOEPFIA [so named by Schreber, in honour of Jo¬ 
hann David Schoef, president of the medical college at 
Anspach, author of Materia Medica Americana, &c.], in 
Botany, a genus of the class, pentandria, order monogynia, 
natural order of aggregatae, caprifolia (Juss.) —Generic 
Character. Calyx: perianth incrusting the germ at 
bottom turbinate-angular, indistinctly five-toothed. Co¬ 
rolla one-petalled, bell-shaped, ten-grooved at the base, five- 
cleft : segments triangular, acute, reflexed. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments five, very short. Anthers twin, erect, in the mouth 
of the corolla. Pistil: germ turbinate, half inferior, within 
the corolla, crowned with a semiglobular porous gland. 
Style shorter than the corolla, cylindrical, erect. Stigma 
capitate, trifid. Pericarp: drupe, with a one-celled nut. 
Seed one.— Essential Character. Calyx double; outer 
bifid, inferior: inner superior, quite entire. Corolla bell¬ 
shaped. Stigma capitate. Drupe one-seeded. 
Schoepfia Americana.—It is a small tree, eight or ten feet 
in height, with round, smooth branches. Leaves petioled, 
alternate, ovate, very smooth, attenuated, blunt, quite entire. 
Peduncles axillary, often in pairs, one-flowered, sometimes 
two or three-flowered. Calyx double; one inferior, one- 
leafed, sub-bifid, the other half superior, entire. Sometimes 
there are only four stamens. The genus is allied to lonicera 
and loranthus.—Native of Santa Cruz and Montserrat, where 
jt was found by Von Rohr. 
SCIKEPFLIN (John Daniel), a writer in history, was 
born in 1694, at Saltzburg, in the Brisgau. He studied 
at Basil, and also at Strasburg, and in 1720 he was chosen 
professor of eloquence and history at the latter university. 
Here he obtained a large share of reputation, and was in¬ 
vited by various princes and universities to come and reside 
among them, but he preferred continuing at Strasburg. 
In 1726 he travelled into France, Italy, and England, 
and on his return he was presented with a canonry of St. 
Thomas. Having planned a history of Alsace, he travelled 
into the Low Countries, Germany and Switzerland, in 
search of materials, and in 1751 he published the first 
volume of his “ Alsatia illustrata.” When he presented this 
to the king of France, he took the opportunity of pleading 
for the privileges of the, Protestant university of Strasburg, 
and obtained a confirmation of them. In 1761 the second 
volume was given to the public, and during the interval he 
had published his “ Vindiciaj Celticse.” which was an ac¬ 
count of the origin, language, &c., of the Celts. He also 
prepared, as supplements to the history of Alsace, a collection 
of its charters, and an account of its learned men, which his 
successor in the professorship, M. Koch, published under the 
titles of “ Alsatia diplomatica,” and “ Alsaticarum Rerum 
Scriptores.” The last great work of Schcepflin was a most 
elaborate history of his native state, intitled “ Historia Zu- 
ringo-Badensis,” 7 vols. 4to. 1763-6. He was author of se¬ 
veral dissertations printed in the Memoirs of the Academy of 
Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, of which one is an attempt 
to prove that Guttemberg first practised the art of printing at 
Strasburg, which M. Schceffer afterwards brought to per¬ 
fection at Mentz. Schospflin had collected a fine library and 
museum attached to it, which, in the end, he liberally pre¬ 
sented to the city of Strasburg. Of this a description has 
been published by Oberlin, under the title of Museum 
Schcepflinianum.” This learned man died at Strasburg in 
1771, at the age of 77. 
SCHOGHR, a village' of Syria, in the pachalic of Aleppo, 
on the Qrontes ; 40 miles west of Aleppo. 
SCHOHARIE, a county of the United States,‘ in the 
central part of New York, bounded north by Mont¬ 
gomery county, north-east by Schenectady, east by Albany 
county, south-east by Greene county, south-west by Dela¬ 
ware county, and west by Otsego county. Population 
18,945. 
SCHOHARIE, a post township and village of the United 
States, aud capital of Schoharie county. New York. The 
township is watered by the river of the same name. The 
village is situated on Schoharie flats, and contains the coun¬ 
ty buildings, a printing-ofiice, two churches, and a number 
of elegant houses. 
SCHOHARIE, a river of the United States, in New York, 
which runs north through Schoharie county, into the Mo¬ 
hawk, west of Florida. Length 70 miles. The alluvial 
flats on this river are from one to two miles wide, and are 
very fertile. 
SCHOHHAVA, a large mountain of Yemen, in Arabia, 
containing upwards of 300 villages, each governed by its 
chief, under the title of Schiech. 
SCHO'LAR, s. [scholdris, Lat. pcolepe, Sax.] One 
who learns of a master; a disciple. 
The scholars of the Stagyrite, 
Who for the old opinion fight, 
Would make their modern friends confess 
The difference but from more to less. Prior. 
A man of letters.—To watch occasions to correct others in 
their discourse, and not slip any opportunity of shewing their 
talents, scholars are not blamed for. Locke. —A pedant; a 
man of books.—To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; 
to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a 
scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected by ex¬ 
perience. Bacon. —One who has a lettered education.— 
My cousin William is become a good scholar : he is at Ox¬ 
ford still, is he not ? Shakspeare. —One who in our English 
universities belongs to the foundation of a college, and who 
has a portion of its revenues. 
Our candidate at length gets in 
A hopeful scholar of Coll. Trin. 
A scholarship not half maintains. 
And college rules are heavy chains. Warton. 
SCHOLATtlTY, s. [scholarite, Fr. Cotgrave.] Scholar¬ 
ship. Not in use. —I’ll pay your scholarity. B. Jonson. 
SCHO'LARLIKE, adj. Becoming a scholar; like a 
scholar. 
Your grace shall find him — 
— Courtly, and scholar like, understanding! y read 
In the necessities of the life of man. Beaum. and FI. 
SCHOLARSHIP, s. Learning; literature; knowledge.— 
Your publick profession hath in a manner no acquaintance 
with scholarship or learning. Sir T. Bodley to Sir F. 
Bacon. —It pitied my very heart to think that a man of my 
master’s understanding, and great scholarship, who had a 
book of his own print, should write so outrageously. Pope. 
—Literary education.—This place should be school and 
university, not needing a remove to any other house of 
scholarship. Milton. —Exhibition or maintenance for a 
scholar. Ainsworth. 
A scholarship 
