botany. See Chenopodium.

Belunum, (anc. geog.), a town of Rhaetia, above Feltria, in the territory of the Veneti; now Belluno, capital of the Bellunese in the territory of Venice. See Belluno.

Belus, (anc. geog.), a small river of Galilee, at the distance of two stadia from Ptolemais, running from the foot of Mount Carmel out of the lake Cendeva. Near this place, according to Josephus, was a round hollow or valley, where was a kind of sand fit for making glass; which, though exported in great quantities, was found to be inexhaustible. Strabo says, the whole of the coast from Tyre to Ptolemais has a sand fit for making glass; but that the sand of the rivulet Belus and its neighbourhood is a better sort; and here, according to Pliny, the making of glass was first discovered.