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quaniiiR-s of this plant cuUivateci in the v.dt country 

 'i"h!s plant is propagated by lowing the feeds m 

 M.'.:c!!, upon a foil ^h:U has been well ploiiglied : 

 .■.U)iit one peck of this \cL'd will fow an acre ; for tlie 

 olaars (liould have room to erow, otlierwife t!ie heads 



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will not befo large, nor in io great quantity. Wlien 

 the plants are come up, you mud hoe them in i * 

 jame manner as is praclifed for Turneps, cutting 

 (iuwn all the weeds, and fingling out the plants to 

 about fix or eight inches dillance; and as the plants 

 advance, and tlie weeds begin to grow again, you 



mull hoe them a fecond 



tmie, cutting 



out the 



plants to a wider diftance, for they fliould be, atlall, 

 left at leaft a foot afunder : and you fhoukl be parti- 

 cularly careful to clear them from weeds, efpecially 

 the iirft fummer; for when the plants have fpreadlb 

 as to cover the furface of the ground, the weeds will 

 not fo readily grow between them. The fecond year 

 after fowing, the plants will flioot up ftalks with heads, 

 v/hich will be fit to cut about the beginning of Au- 

 guft y at which time they fhould be cut, and tied up 

 in bunches, letting them in the fun if the weather be 

 iair i but if not, they muil be fet in rooms to dry. 

 The common produce is about an hundred and fixty 

 bundles or ftaves upon an acre, which they fell for 

 about one fliilling a Have. Some people fow Caraway 

 and other feeds among their Teazels, but this is not 

 a good method, for the one fpoils the other ; nor 

 can you fo eaiily clear them from, weeds, as^vyhen 

 alone. Dr. Linnasus fuppofes this to be only a fe- 

 minal variety of the common wild Teazel -, but I 

 have cultivated both the forts more than forty years, 

 and have never found either of them alter, fo that 

 there can be no doubt of their being diilinft fpecies. 

 D I R C A, Leather Wood. 



The Characters are, 

 ^ere is no empalement to the flower^ which is cltih- 

 Jhapedy of mte petals having a JJjort-bellied tuhe^ and an 

 unequal border \ it hath eight /lender ftaminafiiiiatei in 

 the middle of the tube^ terminated by ereEi roundiflo fiim- 

 rnits^ 'ivith an oval germen^ fupporting a flender Jtyle 

 which is longer than the Jlamiyia^ crowned by a Jimple 

 Jligfna. The germen afterward becomes a berty with one 

 cell^ inclofing cne feed. 



This genus of plants is ranged in the firfl: fe6lion of 

 Linnaeus*s eighth clafs, intitled Odlandria Monogy- 

 nia, the flower having eight ftamina and one ftyle.- 

 We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 



DiRCA {Paluftris), Amoen. Acad. 3. p. 12. Marfh Lea- 

 therwQod. Thymelsea floribus albis primo vere erum- 

 pentibus, foliis oblongis acuminatis, viminibus & 

 cortice valde tenacibus. Flor. Virg. 155. 

 This Ihrub grows naturally in fwamps in Virginia, 

 Canada, and other parts of North America, where 

 it feldpm rifes more than fiye or fix feet hiffh, but in 

 Europe it rarely i$ more than half fo high ; it fends 



. out many articulatecibra^ the root, gar- 



nilhedwith oval leaves, of a pale yellowifh colour, 

 andfmoothi the flowers come out from the fide of 

 the branches, two or three upon elch foot-fl:alk3 they 

 are of a greenifli white colour, and appear early in the 

 fpring, juft at ,the time when the leaves begin to flioot ; 

 the flowers are feldom fucceeded by feeds in England. 

 This flirub is very difficult to propagate in Europe-, for 



. as It does not produce feeds here, it can only be increaf- 

 . ed by layers or cuttings, and thefe are generally two 

 years before they put out roots -, for as the flirubs grow 

 naturally in very moifl: places, they are with difficulty 

 preferved in gardens, unlefs they are planted in wet 

 ground, but they are feldom injured by cold. 



D I T TAN Y, the white. See Dictamnus. 



DITTANY of Crete. See Origanum. 



DOCK. See Lafathum. 



DODARTIA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 698. Tourn. Cor. 

 47. tab, 478. [This plant was fo named by Dr. Tour- 

 nefort, from Monfieur Dodart, a member of the A- 

 cadcnw of Sciences at Paris.] We have no Englifh 

 name for this plant. 



The Characters arc. 

 The fewer h'ctb a permanent empalement cf one kff 





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'lihich is hdlfapcd, cut into /:v f. ;;■/.: rt ::r>: /•- 

 flo^vcr hath one petal, is ;:,:j';::^ /.v/;;a ,; r.^r:dr:.::! 

 d/fexcd tjU n:Hcb Lnj^cr th.:)}^:Lr ;v;;;'.;.V;.!:v;/ ; //.f ;/.y*, r 

 lip rifcs and is ii:d:utrd, tb: h-cr up ./;-, .;.;;, oT.r-: .;:J :s 

 trifd, the^ niidilkfg}urit ht'nj; ;:.:rrc:y, I. L:::: fc^yy jl.f- 



K'dna which incUre to tie i-?>p(r Un, twi d" ^^I'-r-' ,--'r 

 foortcr than tie ether, and aye (crvuni^fyi /■- 'f-v yjl ?—"• /■■''» 

 fummits, Li the center is Ji:;ui:cd a rcund j^^en;;:):^ /:r>- 

 porting an awljhapcd fy!e, acwncd iy a hifd cl:-.:j 

 flignia. The germen afterw.rrd bc:cm:s a gluuLir ,ap- 

 fule with two cells ^ filled with fnali feeds. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in ti-.c fecond fcvlTtion 

 of Linnu:u3's fourteenth clals, iutitlcd ])idvnam:;'v 

 Angiofperniia, the flower having two long and two 

 {[ion ftamina, and the feeds beirg included in a capfulc. 

 The Species are, 



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1, DoDARTiA (Oww/c/Z/j) foliis llnearibus intefrcrrimis 

 glabris. Lin. Sp. Plant. 633. Bodartia with very nar- 

 roWy fnocth, entire leaves. Dodartia Oriontaiis, fiorc 

 purpurafccnte. lourn. Cor. 4;. Eaftern Dodartia with 

 a purplifj flower. 



2. DoDARTiA (Linaria) foliis radicalibus oblongo-ova- 

 tis, ferratis, caulinis linearibus inrco-errimis iioribus 

 fpicatis terminalibus. Dodartia with oblong. 



ovaiy 



fawed leaves at the bottom^ thofe on the ftalks narrow and 

 entire^ and flowers growing in fpikes at the end of the 

 flalks. Linaria bcllidis folio. C. B. P. zii. Toad 

 Flax with a Daify leaf. 



The firft fort was diicovered by Dr. Tourncfort near 

 mount Ararat in Armenia, from whence he fcnt the 

 feeds to the royal garden at Paris, where they fuc- 

 ceeded, and from thence moll of the curious gard^Mis 

 in Europe have been fuppliedwith this plant. This 

 plant having characters which are different from all 

 thofe of Tournefort's Inftitutions, he conftituted this 

 genus, and gave it the title from Monfieur Doda^-t, 

 member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, 

 and phyfician to her Royal Highnefsthe Princefs of 

 Conti. 



It hath a perennial root v;hicli creeps far under tlie 

 furface, and fends out new ftalks at a o-reat diftance 

 from the parent plant ; thefe ftalks arc Brm, a little 

 comprefled, and crrow a foot and a half hiirh, fend- 



ing out feveral fide branches, garnifhed with long, 

 fleffiy, narrow leaves placed oppofite, of a deep green 

 colour y thofe on the lower part of the ftalk are fliorter 

 and broader than thofe above, but thofe on the up- 

 per part of the ftalk are entire j and at thefe joints 

 the flowers come out fingly on each fide the ftalk, 

 fitting clofe to it ; thefe are near an inch long j the 

 bottom is tubulous, but divides into two lips above ; 

 the upper lip is hollow like a fpoon, the convex fide 

 ftanding upward, and is divided into two parts ; the 

 lower lip is divided into^three parts, the middle be- 

 ing the narroweft. The flower is of a deep purple 

 colour, and appears in July, and is rarely fucceeded 

 by feeds in England. It propagates very faft by its 

 creeping roots, fo that when it is once eftabliflied in a 

 garden, it will multiply faft enough ^ it loves a light 

 dry foil, and may be tranfplanted cither in autumn 

 when the ftalks decay, or in the fpring before the new 



ftalks arife. 



The fecond fort is a biennial, or at moft a triennial 

 plant, which frequently perifhes foon after the feeds 

 are ripe. This fends out from the root feveral ob- 

 long leaves,' which are near four inches long, narrow 

 at their bafe, but increafe in width upward, where 



they are about an inch broad, rounded at the end, and 

 deeply fawed on the edges -, between thefe arife the 

 ftalks, which grow a foot high, their lower parts be- 

 ing garniflied with leaves of the fame form as the 

 lower leaves, but much fmaller-, the upper leaves 

 •e very narrow and entire. 



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The flowers grow ia 



fpikes on the top of the ftalks ^ they are very fmall 

 and v/hite, but are ftiaped like thofe of the former fort. 

 This is propagated by feeds, yvhich fnould be fov^^n 

 in autumn foon after they are ripe, upon a border of 

 light earth, where they aredefigncd to remain. When 

 the plants appear the following fpring, they muft be 

 thinned, and kept clear from weeds, which is all the 



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