a word used in ancient writings for the head. Hence to poll is either to vote, or to enter down the names of those persons who give their votes at an election.

POLLIA, La, a town of Naples, in the province of Principato Citra, on a hill at the entrance of the beautiful, fertile, and populous Val di Diano, 10 miles N.N.W. of La Sala. It has a number of churches and monastic institutions; and there are manufactures of silk and coarse woollen cloth. The Negro, which is here a considerable river, suddenly disappears at the foot of the hill on which the town is built, and flows underground for 2 miles as far as Pertosa. Pop. 3000.

POLLEN. See Botany.