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the back by three or four semi-decurrent brown bands; 
whole body beset with small spines.—Found in the Medi¬ 
terranean and Indian seas. Small remains of this species 
are said to occur among the petrifications of mount Bolca 
near Verona. 
9. Tetrodon mola.—Unarmed, sharp,compressed, rounded; 
a very short rounded tail; dorsal fin annexed to the anal 
with oval spiracles. Dr. Shaw has made a distinct genus of 
the sun-fish under the name of cepha/us, the characters of 
which are, that the jaws are bony, and body terminating 
abruptly, so as to resemble the head of a fish. This genus 
comprehends the mola, or short sun-fish; the oblong sun-fish, 
with truncated body, or oblong diodon of Pennant; the va¬ 
riegated, with whitish undulations and spots ; and the Palla- 
sian cephalus or silvery sun-fish, with brownish back, and 
spiny carinated abdomen.—The mola or short sun-fish, is a 
native of the European seas. Its general colour is brown, 
with a silvery cast on the sides and abdomen; the skin 
rough; the pectoral fins small, rounded, and placed hori¬ 
zontally; the dorsal and anal fins placed opposite, and of a 
lengthened shape, with rounded tips continued into the tail 
fin. This fish is sometimes seen lying on its side, on the 
surface of the water, when it may be easily taken. In the 
Northern seas it arrives at a vast size, of the length of eight 
or even of ten feet, and 500 pounds in weight: it is sup¬ 
posed to feed principally on shell-fish, and in the night it is 
said to exhibit a high degree of phosphoric splendour. 
Of this there is a variety, viz. the truncatus, unarmed, 
smooth, compressed, oblong, with a very short tail, the 
dorsal and anal fins annexed, with lunated spiracles. This 
is the oblong sun-fish of Pennant. 
10. Tetrodon punctatus, or spherical brown tetrodon.— 
With black specks, whiteish abdomen, and very narrow 
dorsal fin -. the tetrodon pointelle of Cepede. Resembling 
the former.—Found in the Indian seas. 
TETSCHEN, Daczin, or Wartha, a small town in the 
north of Bohemia, on the Elbe; 18 miles north of Leutme- 
ritz, and 48 north-by-east of Prague. Population 1609. 
TETSO, a small town in the north-east of Hungary; 40 
miles north of Nagy-Banya. 
TETSWORTH, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire, 
situated on the river Thames, over which is a bridge which 
divides it from Wheatley. Population 426; 12f miles east- 
south-east of Oxford. 
TE'TTER, s. [cecep, Sax.] A scab; a scurf; a ring¬ 
worm. 
A most instant tetter bark’d about 
Most lazar like, with vile and loathsome crust, 
AH my smooth body. Shakspeare. 
To TE'TTER, v. a. To infect with a tetter. 
As for my country I have shed my blood. 
Not fearing outward force, so shall my lungs 
Coin words till their decay, against those measles, 
Which we disdain should letter us. Shakspeare. 
TETTIGES, Ter7iye?, Gr., grasshoppers, a title the Athe¬ 
nians assumed to themselves. 
TETTIGOMETRA, a name by which the ancients called 
the nymph of the cicada, or tettyx. 
TETTIGONI A, a word used by the ancients to express the 
smaller species of Cicada. 
TE'TTISH, adj. [perhaps a corruption of tetchy. Un¬ 
used.'] Captious; testy; ill-humoured.—This rogue, if he 
had been sober, sure had beaten me, he’s the most tettish 
knave. Beaum. and Ft. 
TETTON, or Teeton, a hamlet of England, in Cheshire; 
3 miles west-north-west of Sandbach. 
TETTUA MOTU, a cape on the east-coast of New Zea¬ 
land, the north-east point of Poverty bay. Lat. 38. 36. N. 
long. 181. 30. W. 
TETUAN, a considerable sea-port of Morocco, in the pro¬ 
vince of El Garb, on the Mediterranean, immediately within 
the straits of Gibraltar. A branch of the Atlas, passing 
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through the province of Tedla, comes to within a few miles 
of the town. The environs are carefully planted with vine¬ 
yards and gardens; the grapes are exquisite, and the oranges 
reckoned by some superior to any in the world. Our fleets 
entering the Mediterranean, often water and victual in the 
bay of Tetuan. The coast, however, though safe in a west 
wind, must be avoided when the wind blows from the east; 
30 miles south-east of Tangiers. Lat. 35. 50. N. long. 5. 
20. W. 
TETWORTH, a hamlet of England, in Huntingdonshire; 
6 miles south-by-east of St. Neot’s. 
TETYAN HEAD, a cape on the west coast of the island 
of Mindanao. Near it is a harbour, the entrance without 
danger, except such as may be seen. Lat. 7. 20. N. long. 
124. 36. E. 
TEUCHITES, in Botany, a name used by some for the 
sccenanth or schcenanthus ; which see. 
TEUCRIUM [so named from Teucer, son of Scamander, 
and father-in-law of Dardanus, king of Troy.], in Botany, 
a genus of the class didynamia, order gymnospermia, na¬ 
tural order of verticillataeY Juss.) —Generic Character. Ca¬ 
lyx : perianlh one-leafed, half-five-cleft, acute, almost equal, 
gibbous at the base on one side, permanent. Corolla one- 
petalled, ringent; tube cylindric, short, ending in an incur- 
vated throat; upper lip erect, acute, deeply two-parted be¬ 
yond the base, the segments at the sides distant; lower lip 
spreading, trifid; the lateral segments of the same form with 
the upper lip, almost erect; the middle one very large, and 
somewhat rounded. Stamina: filaments four, awl-shaped, 
longer than the upper lip of the corolla and ascending in the 
cleft of it, prominent. Anthers small. Pistil: germ four- 
parted. Style filiform, situation and size of the stamens. 
Stigmas two, slender. Pericarp none. Calyx unchanged, 
fostering the seeds at the bottom. Seeds four, roundish. 
—The upper lip of the corolla, divided beyond the base and 
gaping, resembles a corolla destitute of an upper lip.— Es¬ 
sential Character. Corolla: upper lip two-parted beyond 
the base, divaricating where the stamens are. 
1. Teucrium campanulatum, or small-flowered german¬ 
der.—Leaves multifid; flowers lateral, solitary.—Native of 
the Levant, and of Apulia, in moist ground. 
2. Teucrium orientale, or great-flowered germander.— 
Leaves multifid, flowers racemed.—Native of the Levant. 
3. Teucrium botrys, or cut-leaved annual germander.— 
Leaves multifid; flowers lateral in threes, peduncled. Root 
annual.—Native of the South of Europe, and of Barbary 
about Algiers. 
4. Teucrium chamsepitys, or ground pine.—Leaves trifid, 
linear, quite entire; flowers sessile, lateral, solitary; stem 
diffused. Root small, branched, annual.—Native of many 
parts of Europe, the Levant, Barbary and Virginia. In 
England, it abounds in Kent and Surry, but otherwise it is a 
scarce plant. 
5. Teucrium nissolianum, or trifid-leaved germander.— 
Leaves trifid and quinquefid, filiform ; flowers peduncled, 
solitary, opposite; stem decumbent.—This is an annual 
plant.—Native of Spain and Portugal. 
6. Teucrium pseudo-chamaepitys, or bastard ground pine. 
—Leaves three-parted, trifid, linear; flowers racemed ; stem 
rough-haired.—Native of Spain, Portugal, the South of 
France about Marseilles, and Algiers in Barbary. 
7. Teucrium iva, or musky germander.—Leaves three- 
cusped, linear; flowers sessile, lateral, solitary. Annual._ 
Native of the South of Europe, and of Barbary, 
8. Teucrium Mauritanum, or Moorish germander.—Leaves 
pinnate-multifid ; stem quite simple, erect; bractes subulate- 
palmate.—Found in Barbary, 
9. Teucrium fruticans, or narrow-leaved tree germander, 
—Leaves quite entire, elliptic, tomentose beneath ; flowers 
lateral, solitary, peduncled.—Native of Spain, Sicily, and 
Corsica, near the coast. 
10. Teucrium latifolium, or broad-leaved tree germander. 
—Leaves quite entire, rhombed, acute, villose, tomentose 
beneath. 
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12. Teucrium 
