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HELIOTROPIUM

Volume 10 · 54 words · 1815 Edition

TURNSOLE, a genus of plants belonging to the pentandria class, and in the natural method ranking under the 41st order, Alperifoliae. See BOTANY Index.

HELIOSPHERICAL LINE, is the rhumb line in Navigation, being so termed, because on the globe it winds round the pole helically or spirally, coming still nearer and nearer to it.