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ANNA, Duchess of Saxe- Weimar, was born in 1739, and, left a widow in the second year of her mar- ۱ AMANA riage (1758), by her judicious rule as guardian of her infant son, she enabled the country to recover from the effects of the Seven Years' War. She attracted to Weimar such men as Herder, Goethe, Musæus, Schiller. The battle of Jena is said to have broken her heart; she died (1807) six months after that event.

AMANA and AMANUS, a chain of lofty mountains separating Cilicia from

AMANA and AMANUS, a chain of Syria. This name was given by the Greek and Roman geographers, and is also sometimes applied by modern geographers to the branch of Mount Taurus, which, beginning at the mountain of Cape raphers to the branch of Mount Taurus, Hynzyr, on the Gulf of Scanderoon, runs in a N. E. direction into the interior. fungi, nearly allied to the mushrooms agaricus. Several of the species are edible, notably the delicious orange (A. cæsarea), but the majority are poisonous. A. muscaria, which is quite common in woods, especially of fir and beech, in Great Britain, is one of the most mon in woods, especially of fir and beech, in Great Britain, is one of the most fly agaric, being used in Sweden and dangerous fungi. It is sometimes called which purpose it is steeped in milk. The pileus or cap is of an orange-red color, with white warts, the gills white, and the stem bulbous. It is used by the Kamwith white warts, the gills white, and the AMARANTACEÆ, or AMARAN- THACEÆ, a natural order of plants, consisting of "chenopodal exogens, with separate sepals opposite the stamens, usually one-celled anthers, a single ovary often containing several seeds, and scarious flowers buried in imbricated bracts." The order is divided into three sub-orders often containing several seeds, and scarisex. About 500 species are known. They occur chiefly in the tropics of America and Asia; a number also are Australian.

The cockscomb, the globe amaranth, the occur chiefly in the tropics of America and Asia; a number also are Australian. ceæ are used as pot herbs.

The cockscomb, the globe amaranth, the prince's feather, and love-lies-bleeding are found in gardens. Many amaranthagenus of plants, the typical one of the order amarantaceæ. It is placed under the sub-order achyrantheæ. It has green, purplish or crimson flowers in large spiked clusters, which are very ornamental. A. melancholicus and tri-color are tender annuals, and A. sanguineus and caudatus common border flowers. The leaves of A. viridis are employed exterspiked clusters, which are very ornamen- tal. A. melancholicus and tri-color are tender annuals, and A. sanguineus and is used in Madagascar as a cure for syphilis. The seeds of A. frumentaceus and A. anardana are used as corn in India.

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It is on the Fort Worth and Denver AMARILLO, a city of Texas, in Potter City, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé, the Chicago, Rock Island, and Gulf, the Pecos and Northern Texas, and the City, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé, the Chicago, Rock Island, and Gulf, facturing interests. Pop. (1910) 9,957; Southern Kansas and Texas railroads. facturing interests. Pop. (1910) 9,957; It has important agricultural and manu- (1920) 15,494. ters written on clay tablets discovered were found to include the correspondence in Egypt. The letters when deciphered were found to include the correspondence carried on between the Egyptian sovabout 1400 в. c. With three exceptions ereign and his officers in other countries, they are written in the cuneiform charon conditions in Babylon, Egypt, Pales- tine, and other countries at that time. acter. The letters throw invaluable light tine, and other countries at that time.

AMARYLLIDACEÆ, an order of plants in the narcissal alliance of the class endogens. The representatives of the order in the English flora are narcisas they are, most of them have poisonsus, gelanthus, and leucojum. Beautiful ous bulbs. The Hottentots are said to dip the heads of their arrows in the viscid juice of the bulbs of hæmianthus toxicarius and some allied species. Sevtheir composition like that of the squill. eral are emetic, having a principle in Oporanthus luteus is purgative, alströmeria salsilla diaphoretic and diuretic, and amaryllis ornata astringent. A kind of arrowroot prepared in Chile from of arrowroot is prepared in Chile from liquor called pulque is made from the wild agave of Mexico. AMATI (am-ä'tē), a family of Cremona, in the 16th and 17th centuries, famous for their violins, which are at the present time valued very highly on account of their tone. The founder of the