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from the fish and fowl, and yet still retain the prolifick power 
of generation. Pearson. 
SEJU'NCTION, s. [sejunctio, Lat.] The act of dis¬ 
joining, or separating. Unused. —The constitution of that 
people was made by a sejunction and separation of them 
from all other nations on the earth. Pearson. 
SEJUR, a small river of Syria, which rises a little to the 
north of Antakia, and, after a course of about 30 miles, loses 
itself in the ground. 
SEJUR, a small town of Syria; 15 miles south of An¬ 
takia. 
SEKE, ad}, [peoc, Sax.] Sick. Chaucer. 
SEKI, a town of Niphon, in Japan; 20 miles south-south¬ 
west ofIxo. 
SEKIALE, a village of Nedsjed, in Arabia; 300 miles 
east of Madian. 
SEKIN, a village of Caramania, in Asiatic Turkey; 30 
miles south-west of Selef keh. 
SEKMARA, a town described by the Arabian geogra¬ 
phers in the 12th century, as situated on the Niger, near 
the western frontier of Wangara,- in Central Africa; but no 
recent accounts of it have been received. 
SEKOOBOOM, a small island in the Sooloo Archipelago. 
Lat. 5. 5. N. long. 120. 20. E. 
SEKUNDRA, a town of Hindostan, province of Delhi, 
district of Merat, belonging to the British. Lat. 28. 38. N. 
long. 77. 34. E. 
SEKUNDRA, a town of Hindostan, province of Agra, 
where there is a magnificent tomb of the emperor Akbar. 
Lat. 27. 45. N. long. 78. 21. E. 
SEKUNDRA, a town of Hindostan, province of Aga, 
aud district of Etaweh. Lat. 26. 23. N. long. 79. 35. E.— 
All these places are called after Sekunder (Alexander), the 
Afghan emperor of Hindostan, who reigned in the beginning 
of the 16th century. There are several other places named 
after him. 
SEL, a village in the north-west of France, department of 
the llle and Vilaine; 16 miles south of Rennes. 
SEL HADJAR, a village of Lower Egypt, on the site of 
the ancient Sais, several remarkable monuments of which 
may still be traced. The principal consists of a quadrangu¬ 
lar inclosure, formed by very lofty earthen walls. Dr. 
Clarke found here a number of valuable antiquities, among 
which the most remarkable was a figure in the form of a 
mummy, composed entirely of porcelain, and bearing a 
sceptre, in the form of a plough, supposed to represent the 
ancient plough of Egypt. He found also a torso, the finest 
specimen of Egyptian sculpture he had seen, and now de¬ 
posited in the university of Cambridge. A tablet, with nu¬ 
merous hieroglyphics, was also discovered; 18 miles south- 
south-east of Faoua. 
SELAGINOIDES, the name of a genus of mosses in the 
arrangement of Dillenius, a species of lycopodium; the 
characters of which are these:—the capsules are produced in 
the alae of the leaves, in the manner of those in the selago, 
but they are of a different form, being tricoccous, and some¬ 
times quadricoccous, and opening, when mature, into so 
many valves. 
Of this genus of moss, we have only one known species; 
which is the prickly selaginoides, commonly called seeding 
mountain moss. This is found in the mountainous parts of 
Yorkshire, and in Wales; and loves rocky and moist places. 
SELAGO [of Pliny], in Botany, a genus of the class 
didynamia, order gymnospermia, natural order of aggregatae, 
vitices (Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx: perianth one- 
leafed, four-cleft (five-cleft), small, permanent: lower seg¬ 
ment larger. Corolla one petalled: tube very small, filiform, 
scarcely perforated: border spreading, five-parted, almost 
equal; the two upper segments smaller; the lowest larger. 
Stamina: filaments four, capillary, length of the corolla 
into which they are inserted; the two upper ones longer. 
Anthers simple. Pistil: germ roundish. Style simple, 
length of the stamens. Stigma simple, acute. Pericarp 
none. Corolla involving the seed. Seed one or two, 
roundish.— Essential Character. Calyx five-cleft. Co- 
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rolia, tube capillary; border almost equal. Seeds one or 
two. 
1. Selago corymbosa, or fine leaved selago.—These plants 
are all natives of the Cape of Good Hope.—Stems slender, 
woody, rising seven or eight feet high, but so weak as to 
require support: they send out many slender branches. 
Leaves short, linear, hairy, coming out in clusters. Flowers 
small, and of a pure white: appearing in July and August, 
but not followed by seeds in England. 
This plant is preserved in gardens more for the sake of 
variety than beauty. 
2. Selago polystachya, or many-spiked selago.—Corymb 
with spikes, fascicled, leaves filiform, aggregate. Stem fru- 
ticose, erect, even, branched, half a foot high. 
3. Selago rapunculoides, or rampion-like selago.—Spikes 
corymb, leaves toothed. Border of the corolla four-parted, 
with the two outer segments larger. 
4. Selago spuria, or linear-leaved selago.—Spike corymb, 
leaves linear toothletted. Stem suffruticose. 
5. Selago fasciculata, or cluster-flowered selago.—Co¬ 
rymb manifold, leaves obovate, smooth, serrate. Stem quite 
simple, erect, two feet high. , 
6. Selago coccinea, or scarlet selago.—Spikes corymbed 
lower leaves linear, quite entire, upper lanceolate subulate 
somewhat toothed. This much resembles the rapunculoides 
7. Selago capitata, or headed selago.—Head terminating 
leaves fascicled, linear, fleshy, smooth. Stem suffruticose 
erect, pubescent. 
8. Selago frulicosa, or shrubby selago.—'Heads roundish, 
terminating, leaves scattered, linear, obtuse, quite entire, stem 
shrubby. This is a lofty shrub with unequal branches. 
9. Selago divaricata, or spreading selago.—Heads termi¬ 
nating, leaves filiform-linear, fascicled, smooth. 
10. Selago canescens, or hoary selago.—Spikes terminat¬ 
ing, leaves filiform, fascicled, smooth. 
11. Selago geniculata, or jointed selago.—Spikes termi¬ 
nating, leaves linear, fascicled, smooth, with the margin bent 
back. The branches in this are more spreading and diva¬ 
ricating. 
12. Selago triquetra, or three-sided selago.—Spikes termi¬ 
nating, leaves three-sided, imbricate, recurve-reflex, smooth: 
13. Selago hispida, or hispid selago.—Spikes terminating, 
leaves linear, scattered, reflex, hispid. 
14. Selago polygaloides, or milkwort-like selago.—Spikes 
terminating, bractes and calyxes keeled, laminae rugged, 
leaves linear, smooth, with a reflex margin. 
15. Selago cinerea, or ash-coloured selago.—Corymb 
compound, leaves linear, fascicled, smooth, reflex at the 
edge. 
16. Selago rotundifolia, or round-leaved selago.—Corymb 
compound, leaves ovate, smooth, obtuse. 
17. Selago ciliata, or fringed selago.—Flowers in spikes, 
leaves ovate, ciliate, acute. 
18. Selago verbenacea, or vervain selago.—Spikes fasci¬ 
cled, leaves oblong, smooth, stem four-cornered, right-an¬ 
gled. 
19. Selago hirta, or rough-haired selago.—Rough-haired, 
spikes very long, leaves obovate. 
20. Selago ovata, or ovate-headed selago.—Spikes strobi- 
line, ovate, terminating, leaves scattered, linear, stem shrubby. 
Flowers white, with a yellow spot on the two uppennost 
segments, and sometimes on all of them, and an orange spot 
at the mouth of the tube. It is valuable, not so much on 
account of its beauty, as the curious structure of the spikes, 
and the fragrancy of its flowers. 
Propagation and Culture .—Plant cuttings, during any 
of the summer months, in a bed of fresh earth, covering them 
close with a bell or hand-glass, shading them from the sun, 
and refreshing them now and then with water. Harden them 
gradually, and then transplant thefn into small pots, placing 
them in the shade till they have taken root. Place them with 
other hardy greenhouse plants; and about the end of October 
remove them into the dry stove. They only require protec¬ 
tion from frost, and may be treated in the same manner with 
the hardier greenhouse plants. 
SELAH, 
