DAS 



Prodr. Nov. HoU. v. i. 176, who defines eight New Hol- 

 land fpecies, and mentions having gathered ten or more in 

 Southern Africa ; but with a hint that this genus is too 

 near to Avena, which it almoft entirely refembles. The 

 awn being acknowledged very treacherous in grafles, we 

 would prefume to offer another hint, that Anisopogon (we 

 \vi(h to fay nothing of Diplopogon and A.mpiiipogon, fee 

 thofc articles,) may poflibly require revifion. 

 DANVERS, 1. ult.r. 3127. 



DANVILLE, 1. 6, /■. 432 and 166 ; 1. 9, r. 2240. 

 DAOURIAN. See Nertskinskoi. 

 DARABGERD. Add— Although a great part be in 

 ruins, it is faid to contain between 15,000 and 20,000 

 inhabitants. It is beautifully fituated on an extenfive plain, 

 and furrounded with groves of orange and almon trees, the 

 juice of which is exported to every part of Perfia. Its 

 tobacco is highly eileemed for its mildnefs. 



DARBY. Add — The former containing 966, and the 

 latter 10S5 inhabitants. 



DARIEN. Add — It contains 107 inhabitants, of whom 

 10 are (laves. 

 DARK-Rays, 1. 17, r. fee Heat and Rays of Heat. 

 DARLINGTON, 1. 6 from bottom, after Darlington, 

 infert — ward, conlilling of three divifions, contained 7184 

 houfes, and 39,001 perfons ; 18,725 being males, and 

 20,276 females : and the townfhip of Darlington con- 

 tained 818 houfes, and 5059 perfons ; 2351 being males, and 

 2708 females. 



Darlington, in Carolina. Add — It contained, in 1810, 

 9047 inhabitants, of whom 2731 are fiaves. 

 DARRYFIELD. Add— See Deerfield. 

 DARTAN, in Rural Economy, :i kind of fcabs or ulcers 

 to which lambs are fubjeft, and which extending to the 

 mouth oftei; prove fatal. The remedy propofed is wafliing 

 the fores with vinegar, and applying a falve made with 

 equal parts of tar and hog's-lard. 



DARTFORD,col. i, 1. ult. r. 181 1 ; col. 2,1. i,r. 526 

 and 3177. 



DARTMOUTH, 1. 31, after houfes, infert-in the 

 paridies of St. Petrox, St. Saviour, and Townftall, which 

 form the borough of Clifton Dartmouth Hardnefs, was 

 364 houfes, and that of inhabitants 3595. 



Dartmouth, in America, 1. 9, for 2660 r. 3219. 

 DARWINIA, in Botany, in memory of the late Eras- 

 mus Darwix, M.D. the elegant poet, and ingenious bota- 

 nical phyilologift ; fee that article Rudge Tr. of Linn. 



Soc. v. II. 299 — Clafs and order, Decandria Monogynia. 



Nat. Ord 



Elf. Ch. Calyx none. Corolla tubular, funnel-fhaped, 

 tumid, with five marginal imbricated fegments. Stamens 

 concealed, inferted in two rows into the throat. Anthers 

 kidney-lhaped. Germen fomewhat oblique. Style pro- 

 minent. Stigma fimple. 



I. T). fafckularls. Ibid. t. 22. — Found in New South 

 Wales, by fir .lofeph Banks and Dr. Solander. A branched 

 firub, with crowded needle-like leaves, and terminal denfe 

 tufts, of elegant, fmall, reAflo-wers. 



DASYPOGON, from L^v:, thick andhrijlly, and -rt-^yu.,, 



a beard— Yixown Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. i. 263 Clafs and 



order, Hexandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Juncete? Br. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx inferior, tubular, three-cleft. Petals 

 tjiree, with long claws, conneded with the ftamens. An- 

 thers incumbent. Stigma fimple. Capfule of one cell, not 

 burlting, invefted with the hardened calyx. 



I. p. bromeliifolius. Br. n. I. Terr. Auftr. 76. t. 8 



I-onnd on the Ihoresof King George's found. New Holland. 

 .tieri one and a half or two feet high, fomewhat fhrubby, 



DEC 



with rigid, fimple, lliarply and finely toothed leaves. Flowers^ 

 in a denfe, globular, briftly head. The figure feems to 

 exhibit three/eeds. 



DATOLITE. See Mineralogy, Addenda. 

 DAVENTRY, 1. 2, r. Fawfley ; 1. 4 and 5, infert— 

 Jl Geo. III., 534 houfes, and 2758 inhabitants. 



DAVID'S, St. col. 2, 1. 3, infert after aft— 51 Geo. III. 

 In 1 8 1 1 , the number of houfes for the parifh, containing four 

 hamlets, was 437, and that of inhabitants 1816. 



DAVIDSON, 1. 2, infert— Weft TennefTee ; 1. 6, r. 

 15,608, and 6305. 



DAUM, or Dam, a copper coin in India, equal in value 

 to the fourth part of a rupee. 



DAUPHIN, in America, 1. 6, for nine r. fifteen ; 1. 8, 

 for 22,270 r. 31,883, of whom, in 1810, 26 were flaves. 



DAWLISH. Add — By the returns in 181 1, the parifli 

 of Dawlifh contained 328 houfes, and 1882 perfons. 



DAWSONIA, in Botany, a new and moft curious genus 

 of Moffes, dedicated, by Mr. Brown, to our valued friend 

 Mr. Dawfon Turner, an eminent Englifli botanift, particu- 

 larly diftinguifhed by his cryptogamic writings. — Br. Tr. of 

 Linn. Soc. v. 10. 316. — Clafs and order, Cryptogamia MufcL 

 Nat. Ord. Mufii. 



EflT. Ch. Fringe a tuft of very numerous, ftraight, equal 

 hairs, originating from the central column, as well as from 

 the mouth of the capfule. Outer veil of entangled hairs : 

 inner rough at the fummit. Capfule flat at one fide. 



I. D. polytrichoides. Br. t. 23. f. I. — Found by Mr. 

 Brown, on the (hady banks of rivers, at the foot of the 

 mountains, near Port Jackfon, New South Wales. This 

 mofs exatlly refembles fome of our larger fpecies of Poly- 

 triciium, (fee that article,) while the figure of the capfule 

 approaches Buxbaunua. The fringe is totally unlike every 

 thing previoudy known. The leaves are linear, flat, fringed 

 with (liarp teeth. 



DAYTON. Add— It contains 1746 perfons. 

 DEAL, col. 3, 1. 14, r. 7351, and 1340. 

 DEAN, Michel. In 1811 the panfh contained 121 

 houfes, and 535 perfons ; Wz. 270 males, and 265 females : 

 3 I families being employed in agriculture, and 77 in trade. Sec. 

 DEBENHAM, \.ult. r. 167 and 1224. 

 DECADIA, in Botany, a tree of Amboina and Cochin- 

 china, fo named by Loureiro on account of its ten petals 



Loureir. Cochinch. 315. ( Arbor aluminofa ; Rumph. Amb. 

 v. 3. 160. t. 100. Loureiro moreover cites Bobu ; Burm. 

 Zeyl.26, which is alfo Laurus ferrata, floribus fpicatis, ex 

 foliorum alis provenientibus ; ibid. 139. t. 62 ; Eugenioides ; 

 Linn. Zeyl. 192 : but this does not agree with the plant of 

 Rumpiiius.) — Clafs and order, Icofandria Monogynia, ac- 

 cording to Loureiro, but by his defcription it belongs to 

 Polyandria. Nat. Ord. Guttiferis ajfne. It feems nearly 

 allied to Elicocarpus. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth of three permanent, roundifli, 

 hairy, keeled, fpreading, unequal leaves. Cor. Petals ten, 

 nearly ovate, fomewhat ferrated, ereft, longer than the calyx ; 

 the outer ones largell. Slam. Filaments about 30, almoft 

 as long as the petals, into whofe bafes they are inferted ; 

 anthers two-lobed, roundifli, permanent. Pift. Germen 

 roundifli, fuperior ; ftyle thread-fhaped, the length of the 

 ftamens ; ftigma rather thick. Peric. Drupa ovate, rugged^ 

 fmall. Seed an ovate nut, of three cells. 



EflT. Ch. Calyx of three leaves, inferior. Petals ten. 

 Drupa with a nut of three cells. 



I. D. aluminofa, called in Cochinchina Cay Deung fe, 

 is the only fpecies. This is a middling-fized tree, with a 

 fmooth bark and fpreading branches. Leaves alternate, 

 ftalked, lanceolate, ferrated, fmooth, of a bright green- 



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