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L. dactylis, a finger), the cock's- 

 foot grass, a genus of grasses, Ord. 

 Graminese, so called from the 

 fancied resemblance of the head 

 to fingers. 



daedalenchyma, n., ded'dl-eng'- 

 kim-a (Gr. daidaleos, skilfully 

 wrought, variegated ; engchuma, 

 an infusion, tissue), tissue com- 

 posed of entangled cells, as in 

 some fungi. 



Dalbergieae, n. plu., dal'berj-i'e-e 

 (after Dalberg, a Swedish botan- 

 ist), a tribe of plants, Sub-ord. 

 Papilionacese, Ord. Leguminosse : 

 Dalbergia, n., ddl-berfi-a, a 

 genus of plants : Dalbergia 

 sissoo, sis'sd'd (a native name), an 

 Indian forest tree, valued for its 

 wood. 



daltonism, n., ddwlt'tin-fam, colour 

 blindness ; a condition of the 

 eye in which the individual can- 

 not distinguish one colour from 

 another, so called from Dr. 

 Dalton, the chemist, who suffered 

 under this defect. 



Dammar, n., ddm'ar (a native 

 name), a very handsome genus 

 of trees, Ord. Conifene, from a 

 species of which, it is said, liquid 

 storax is obtained : Dammar 

 Australia, dws-trdl'is (L. Aus- 

 trdlis, Sou them from Aicster,ihe 

 South), the Kawri pine of New 

 Zealand, which yields a hard 

 resin : D. Orientalis, or'-i-Vnt- 

 dl-is (L. Orientalis, Eastern from 

 Oriens, the East), a species called 

 the Amboyna pitch tree, also 

 yielding resin : white Dammar, 

 Indian copal or gum animi, used 

 in India as a varnish, is obtained 

 from Vateria Indica. 



dandelion, n., ddn'-dt-ltftin (F. 

 dent, tooth ; de, of ; lion, lion), 

 a well-known plant having a 

 yellow flower on a naked stem, 

 and deeply-notched leaves; yields 

 a milky juice, used medicinally ; 

 the Taraxacum Dens Leonis, Ord. 

 Composite. 



dandriff, n., ddn'drif, also dan- 



druff, n., dan'drtif (Bret, tan, 

 F. teigne, scurf; W. drwg, bad, 

 evil), a disease of the scalp, char- 

 acterised by quantities of little 

 scales on the skin ; pityriasis. 



Daphnse, n. plu., ddf'ne (Gr. and 

 L. Daphne, the daughter of the 

 river god Peneus, changed into a 

 laurel tree), a Sub-order of the 

 Ord. Thymelseacese, having her- 

 maphrodite or nearly unisexual 

 flowers : Daphne, n., daf'ne, a 

 genus of handsome dwarf shrubs, 

 mostly evergreens : Daphne 

 mezereum or mezereon, mez'er- 

 ef-um or -e'dn (said to be Pers. 

 madzaryoun), the bark of the 

 root and branches used in decoc- 

 tion as a diaphoretic in cutaneous 

 and syphilitic affections, in large 

 doses acts as an irritant poison, 

 and the succulent fruit is poison- 

 ous : D. gnidium, nid'-i-um 

 (gnidia, ancient name of the 

 laurel), the spurge flax or flax- 

 leaved daphne, bark has been 

 used in medicine : D. Alpina, 

 dip-in' a (Alpinus, from the Alps), 

 a dwarf olive tree, said to be 

 purgative : D. cneorum, ne-or'-um 

 (Gr. kneoron, a kind of nettle, a 

 species of daphne), a beautiful 

 species, having similar properties 

 to the D. mezereum : D. Pontica, 

 pont'ik'd (L. Ponticus, pert, to 

 the Black Sea from Pontus, the 

 Black Sea), a spurge laurel, hav- 

 ing diaphoretic qualities : D. 

 laureola, lafor-e'-d-& (L. Iaur8- 

 tilus, a small laurel from laurea, 

 a laurel tree), the spurge laurel, 

 bark used in medicine, the 

 berries are poisonous to all anim- 

 als except birds : daphnein, n., 

 daf'-ne-m, the neutral crystalline 

 principle contained in the D. 

 mezereum. 



Darlingtonia, n., ddr '-ling- ton' i-d 

 (after Dr. Darlington, of America), 

 a genus of the Ord. Sarracenia- 

 cese, pretty plants from the 

 Piocky Mountains. 



darnel, n., ddrn'el (Prov. F. dar 



