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years bachelor of divinity. For doctor 

 of laws, he must have been seven years 

 in the university to commence bachelor 

 of laws, five years after which he may be 

 admitted doctor of laws. Otherwise, in 

 three years after taking the degree of 

 master of arts, he may take the degree of 

 bachelor in laws, and in four years 

 more that of doctor : which same method 

 and time are likewise required to pass 

 the degree of doctor in physic. At Cam- 

 bridge, to take the degree of doctor in 

 divinity, it is required the candidate have 

 been seven years bachelor of divinity : 

 though in several colleges the bachelor's 

 degree is dispensed with, and they may 

 go out per saltitm. To commence doctor 

 in laws, the candidate must have been 

 five years bachelor of laws, or seven years 

 master of arts. To pass doctor in physic, 

 he must have been bachelor in physic 

 five years, or seven years master of arts. 

 It is remarkable, that bv a statute of 37 

 Hen. VIII. a doctor of civil law may ex- 

 ercise ecclesiastical jurisdiction, though 

 a layman. 



DOCTOR in music, a musician upon 

 whom some university has conferred the 

 degree of doctor in the faculty of music. 

 By the qualifications formerly required 

 of a candidate, either for a doctor's or ba- 

 chelor's degree in music, it should seem 

 that the science was regarded merely as 

 speculative. The present statutes, how- 

 ever, are formed on a broader principle, 

 and, looking to talent and active science 

 for the necessary qualifications, require 

 of the candidate an exercise in eight vo- 

 cal parts, with instrumental accompani- 

 ments, which he is to submit to the in- 

 spection of the musical professor, and to 

 have performed in the music school, or 

 some other public place in the university. 



DODARTIA, in botany, so called in 

 honour of M. Dodart, a genus of the Di- 

 dynamia Angiospermia class and order. 

 Natural order of Personatae. Scrophula- 

 rix, Jussieu. Essential character ; calyx 

 five-toothed ; corolla lower lip twice as 

 long as the upper; capsule two-celled, 

 globular. There are two species, vis. 

 D. orientalis, oriental dodartia, and D. in- 

 dica, natives of India. 



DODECAHEDRON, in geometry, one 

 of the Platonic bodies, or regular solids, 

 contained under twelve equal and regu- 

 lar pentagons. See BOUT. 



DODECANDRIA, the name of the e- 

 leventh class in Linnxus'sSexual System; 

 consisting of plants with hermaphrodite 

 flowers, that, according to the title, have 



twelve stamina or male organs. Th'u 

 class, however, is not limited with re- 

 spect to the number of stamina. Many 

 genera have sixteen, eighteen, and even 

 nineteen stamina ; the essential charac- 

 ter seems to be, that, in the class in ques- 

 tion, as in Polyandria, the 13th, the sta- 

 mina are inserted into the receptacle : 

 whereas, in the intermediate class, Ico- 

 sandria, which is as little determined in 

 point of number as the other two, they 

 an attached to the inside of the calyx. 

 The orders in this class, which are six, 

 are founded upon the number of the 

 styles, or female organs. Asarabacca, 

 mangostan, storax, purple loose-strife, 

 wild Syrian rue, and purslane, have one 

 style ; agrimony and heliocarpus liuve 

 two; burning thorny plant and bastard 

 rocket three ; glinus five ; illicium eight ; 

 and houseleck twelve. 



DODECAS, in botany, a genus of the 

 Dodecandria Monogynia class and order. 

 Natural order of Calycanthemae. Myrti, 

 Jussieu. Essential character : corolla 

 five-petalled ; calyx half four cleft, bear- 

 ing the corolla, superior; capsule orte- 

 celled, connate with the calyx. There fs 

 but one species, viz. D. surinamensis, a 

 native of Surinam. 



DODECATHEON, in botany, a genus 

 of the Pentandria Monogynia class and 

 order. Natural order of Preciae. Lysi- 

 machiae, Jussieu. Essential character : 

 corolla rotate, reflex ; stamina placed on 

 the tube : capsule one celled, oblong. 

 There is only one species, viz. D. meadia 

 Virginian cowslip, or meadia, has a pe- 

 rennial yellow root, from which come out, 

 in the spring, several long smooth leaves, 

 six inches long, and nearly two broad : at 

 first they stand erect, but afterwards they 

 lie on the ground, especially if the plant 

 be much exposed to the sun ; from a- 

 mong these leaves arise three or four 

 flower stalks, eight or nine inches high . 

 they are smooth, naked, and terminated 

 by an umbel of flowers, of a peach-co- 

 loured blossom ; these appear in April or 

 May; the seeds ripen about July, soon 

 after which the leaves decay, and the 

 roots remain inactive till the following 

 spring. It is a native of Virginia, and 

 many parts of North America. 



DODO. See DIDCS. 



DODON^A, in botany, so named in 

 honour of Rembert Dodonxus, a famous 

 botanist of the sixteenth century, a genus 

 of the Octandria Monogynia class and 

 order. Natural order of Dumosac. Te- 

 febintaceac, Jussieu. Essential character . 



