S I G 
Topian chain takes the name of Sierra de las Grullas from 
38. to 40. north lat.; beyond that, to 42. north lat., it receives 
the name of Sierra Verde. During its southern course it 
bears several distinct names, besides the general one of Sierra 
Madre. 
SIERRA DE QUINEROPUCA and PACARAIMO, a 
chain of the Andes, in New Granada, which branches east¬ 
ward from the main chain, near the Lake Parima and the 
Amazons. It stretches towards the mountains of French 
Guiana, where its form is little known, as the interior of that 
country is inhabited by Carribs and negroes, who keep the 
settlers at bay. The rivers of Berbice, Surinam, Marony, 
and Essequibo, rise in this part of the chain. 
SIERRA MORENA. See Morena. 
SIERRA SALADA, a river of Brazil, in the province of 
Seara, which runs into the Atlantic. 
SIETE, a small river of Quito, in the province of Cuen 9 a, 
which enters the sea in the gulf of Guayaquill. 
SIEVE, s. [fipe, pype. Sax.] Hair or lawn strained 
upon a hoop, by which flour is separated from bran, or 
fine powder from coarse •, a boulter; a searce. 
Thy counsel 
Falls now into my ears as profitless 
As water in a sieve. Shakspcare. 
A basket.—It is well known, that sieves and half -sieves 
are baskets to be met with in every quarter of Cogent-Garden 
market.—Dr. Farmer adds, that, in several counties of Eng¬ 
land, the baskets used for carrying out dirt, &c., are called 
sieves. Steevens. 
S1EVERNOIPESOCK, a small sandy island in the Frozen 
ocean, near the continent of Asiatic Russia. Lat. 76. 54. N. 
long. 105. 14. E. 
SIEVERO VOSTACHNOI, a cape on the northern coast 
of Asiatic Russia, called by Captain King Cape Taimura. 
Lat. 78. N. long. 101. 14. E. 
SIEVERO ZAPADNOI, a cape on the northern coast of 
Asiatic Russia. Lat 77. N. long. 94. 14. E. 
SIEVERSDORF, a large village of Prussia, in the Mid¬ 
dle Mark of Brandenburg, near Ruppin, with 1100 inha¬ 
bitants. 
SIEVERHAUSEN, a petty village of Germany, in Hano¬ 
ver; 19 miles north-west of Gottingen, remarkable for a 
battle in 1553, between Albert of Brandenburg and the cele¬ 
brated Maurice of Saxony, in which the latter received a 
mortal wound. 
SIEWIERZ, a town of Poland, situated near a large lake; 
40 miles north-west of Cracow, with 1300 inhabitants. 
SIEZETH, a populous town of Austrian Galicia, in the 
Bukowine, on the river Sereth, near the frontiers of Turkish 
Moldavia. 
SIFEED ROOD, the name given to tlie Kizilozen a river 
of Persia, during the latter part of its course. 
SIFFLET, [Fr.] A cat-call. According to M. Laborde, 
it was during the reign of Augustus that clapping of hands 
and cat-calls were introduced in the Roman theatres. Essai 
sur la Musique. 
To SIFT, v. a. [piptan, Saxon; siften , Dutch.] To 
separate by a sieve.—In the sifting of such favour, all that 
came out could not be expected to be pure meal, but must 
have a mixture of padar and bran. Wotton. —To separate; 
to part. 
When yellow sands are sifted from below. 
The glittering billows give a golden show. Dryden. 
To examine; to try.—-We have sifted your objections 
against those pre-eminences royal. Hooker. 
SITTER, s. One who sifts. 
SIG was used by the Saxons for victory: Sigbert, 
famous for victory; Sigward, victorious preserver; Sigard, 
conquering temper: and almost in the same sense as 
Nicoeles, Nicomyachus, Nicander, Victor, Victorious, 
Vincentius, &c. Gibson. 
SIGAGIK, a small sea-port of Anatolia, in Asiatic Turkey; 
14 miles south-west of Smyrna 
SIG 109 
SIGAH-GUSH, or Siyah-Ghusii, or Black-Ear, in 
Zoology, the name of a Persian animal. 
SIGEAN, or Sijean, a small town of the south of 
France, department of the Aude, situated on the river Berre, 
near the Etang of Sigean. It has considerable salt-works, 
and is 9 miles south of Narbonne. Population 1800. 
SIGEAN, Etang de, an inlet of the sea, on the south 
coast of France, department of the Aude. Lat. 43. 5. N. 
long. 3. 5. E. 
SIGER, a small river of Silesia, in the principality of 
Glogau, which falls into the Oder, 6 miles below Beuthen. 
SIGESBECKIA [so named from John George Siegesbeck, 
a German botanist], in Botany, a genus of the class synge- 
fiesia, order polygamia superflua, natural order of composite, 
oppositifoliae, corymbiferse (juss.) —Generic Character. 
Calyx : common exterior five-leaved: leaflets linear, round, 
spreading very much, longer than the lower, permanent: 
interior subquinquangular; leaflets many, ovate, concave, 
obtuse, equal. Corolla: compound, half-radiate. Corollets 
hermaphrodite, many in the disk: female five or fewer in the 
ray, only on one side of the flower. Proper of the herm¬ 
aphrodite funnel-form, exceeding the calyx in length, five¬ 
toothed or three-toothed. Female ligulate, wide, three¬ 
toothed, very short; or funnel-shaped, trifid, the interior 
division deeper. Stamina, in the hermaphrodites: fila¬ 
ments five or three, very short. Anther cylindrical, tubular. 
Pistil, in the hermaphrodites: germ oblong, curved in, size 
of the calyx. Style filiform, length of the stamens. Stigma 
bifid.—In the females: germ oblong, curved in, size of the 
calyx. Style filiform, length of the hermaphrodite. Stigma 
bifid. Pericarp none. Calyx unchanged. Seeds in the 
hermaphrodites solitary, oblong, obtusely four-cornered, 
thicker above, obtuse, naked. Pappus none.—In the 
females very like the others. Receptacle chaffy: chaffs very 
like the scales of the calyx, concave, wrapping up the seeds 
on one side and deciduous. —Essential Character. Calyx 
exterior five-leaved, proper, spreading. Ray halved. Pap¬ 
pus none. Receptacle chaffy. 
1. Sigesbeckia orientalis, or oriental Sigesbeckia.—Petioles 
sessile, exterior calyxes linear, larger, spreading. Plant 
annual, near four feet high, sending out many branches. 
Flowers terminating, small, yellow.. Stem upright. Leaves 
ovate, acuminate at both ends, finishing in the petioles, 
opposite, three-nerved, veined, serrate. Branches from each 
upper axil, shorter than the stem. Peduncles terminating 
ana lateral from the upper branches solitary, brachiate, sus¬ 
taining a fulvous flower, in form of a spider, with a spread¬ 
ing involucre, fenced by five hispid rays, or hairs having a 
clammy head on the top of each. When the ripe seeds are 
gathered, they move in the hand as if they were alive. It is 
remarkable for having the ray of the flower on one side, as 
in Milleria. Receptacle narrow, flat. Seeds inversely py¬ 
ramidal, rugged with tubercles, glutinous, brown, bald, 
smooth, of a livid lead-colour, or brown.—Native of India, 
China, Media, Otaheite and New Zealand. Cultivated in 
1730, by Mr. Miller. It flowers in July and August. 
2. Sigesbeckia occidentalis, or American Sigesbeckia.— 
Petioles decurrent; calyxes naked. 
3. Sigesbeckia flosculosa, or small-flowered Sigesbeckia.— 
Floscules three-toothed; the hermaphrodites three-stamened. 
Plant annual, three feet high. Stem very much branched, 
round, slightly striated, somewhat villose, jointed, the thick¬ 
ness of a reed, dusky purple: branches opposite, when flow¬ 
ering dichotomous, diffused, striated, marked with rings, 
villose, purplish. Leaves opposite, embracing, remote, 
spreading, ovate, acute, unequally serrate, with appendages 
surrounding the stem at the base, three-nerved, veined, 
wrinkled, the upper surface shining, the lower paler, two- 
inches long and fifteen lines wide. On the flowering branch- 
lets the leaves are alternate, sessile, but not marginal at the 
base, ovate-lanceolate, gradually less and less. Panicle ter¬ 
minating, very loose, leafy, dichotomous, from the stem 
itself. Flowers within the forkings of the branchlets or 
opposite to a leaf, solitary, peduncled, the upper ones closely 
heaped in a sort of corymb, herbaceous with a yellow disk. 
Peduncles 
