D R E 



than the 



foregoing 

 1. 20, r. 316 ; 1. 21 



29, r. 181 1 ; 1. 20, r. 3020 

 10, r. 18,108 and 5032. 



herbaceous. Leaves much narrower 



Flotvers yellow, with a balfamic fcent. 



DONNINGTON, 1. 19, r. 181 1 



r. 1528. 



DOODIA, in Botany, named after Mr. Samuel Doody, 

 F.R.S. one of the earlieft and belt Britifh Cryptogamifts. 

 He was an apothecary in London, and died in 1706. — 

 Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. I. 151. Ait. Hort. Kew. 



V. 5. 523 We fear this genus cannot be feparated from 



WooDWARDiA ; fee that article. 



DOOSHAK, in Geography, the prefent capital, and the 

 refidence of the prince of Seiilan, in N. lat. 31^ 8'. E. long. 

 63° 10', eight or nine miles from the river Heermund. See 

 Zarang. 



DORAK. See Felahi. 

 DORCHESTER, col. 4,1. 

 and 15,980. 



Dorchester, in America, 1. 



Dorchester townlhip, 1. 2, r. 537 ; 1. ult. r. 2930. 

 Dorchester, a town, or rather a village, formerly a 

 city, of Oxfordfliire, between Benfon and Oxford. By the 

 returns of 181 1, the parifh contained 148 houfes, and 754 

 perfons ; 358 being males, and 396 females : 93 families 

 employed in agriculture, and 47 in trade, manufactures, and 

 handicraft. 



DORKING, 1. 29, »•. 1811—589—3*59. 

 DORSET, 1. 4, r. 1294. 



DORSETSHIRE,!. 15 and 16, r. 23,210 and 124,693. 

 DOVER, col. 9, 1. 21, r. 9674 and 1780. 

 Dover, in America, 1. 3,.;-. 548 ; 1. 11, r. 2228 ; 1. 26, 

 r. 18S2 ; 1. 7ih. >: 1882 inhabitants. Add — Alfo, a town - 

 fliip in the diftrift of Ohio, in the county of Tufcarawa, con- 

 taining 461 inhabitants. 



DOUGLAS, in America, 1. 5, r. 1 142 ; 1. 11, r. 687. 

 Add — Alfo, a townlhip of Bucks county, in Pennfylvania, 

 having 660 inhabitants. 



DOWNE. Add — containing 1501 inhabitants. 

 DOWNHAM, 1. 25 and 26, /-. 181 1— 361— 1771. 

 DOWNTON, 1. 24, r. 543—2624. 



DRACOPHYLLUM, in Botany, fo called from the 

 )-efemblance of its leaves to Dracana Draco. — Labill. Voy. 

 Engl. ed. v. 2. 219. t. 40. Br. Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. i. 

 555. — Clafs and order, Penlandr'm Monogynia. Nat. Ord. 

 Epacrideit, Br. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx five-cleft. Corolla tubular ; limb in 

 five deep fpreading fegments, beardlefs. Nedlary five fcales 

 beneath the germen. Receptacles of the feeds hanging 

 loofe from the top of the central column. Br. 



Some flowers are fix-cleft, as Labillardiere obferved in 

 his D. •vertkillatum, found in New Caledonia. Mr. Brown, 

 who met with four fpecies in New Holland, remarks, that 

 Forfter's Epacris longifolia and rofmarinifoUa, Prodr. 13, 

 natives of New Zealand, belong to this genus. 



DRACUT, 1. 2, after county, r. and ilate of MafTachu- 

 fetts ; 1. ult. r. 1301. 



DRAG. See Drowning. 



DRAMATIC Mii/lc 0/ the Greeks, col. 2, 1. 5 from 

 the clofe, r. majks. 



DRAYTON. Add— The part of this parifh that lies 

 in Salop county contained, by the return in l8ll, 599 

 houfes, and 3370 perfons ; the other part, formerly deno- 

 minated Tyrley, now Drayton-in-Hales, fituated in the hun- 

 dred of North Pirehill, in the county of Stafford, confifts 

 of three tovVnfhips, having 104 houfes, and 607 inhabitants. 

 DRESDEN, in America. Add— It contains 1096 

 inhabitants. 



DRESSING, in Rural Economy, and the Manege, de- 

 Vol. XXXIX. 



DRY 



notes the periodical application of friftion, by means of 

 brufhes, cloths, &c. to tFie hides of animals, with a view both 

 to cleanhnefs and health. (See Cvrryixg. ) Friction on the 

 furface of the body, by means of the curry-comb jnd brufh, 

 contributes to promote the circulation of the fluids, and 

 that infenfible perfpiration through the pores of the fkin, 

 which greatly conduce to the health and activity of the 

 animal. Columella obferves, that the bodies of cattle 

 ought to be rubbed down daily, as well as the bodies of 

 men ; and frequently it does them more good to have their 

 backs well rubbed down, than to have their bellies filled 

 with large quantities of provender. Of the practice which 

 is fo common on the poll-roads of throwing pailfuls of cold 

 water on horfes when they are over-heated at the clofe of 

 a ftage, Mr. Clark fpeaks doubtfully ; although it is faid 

 that no bad confequences enfue, probably becaufe they have 

 little interruption of exercife ; but he is of opinion, that if 

 they are well rubbed down after exercife, there will be no 

 occafion for wafliing, or rather drencliing them with cold 

 water. See Horse. 



DRIFFIELD, 1. 4, r. 399, and 1857. 



DRIMIA, in Botany, from ^fiuuf, acrid, alluding to 

 the qualities of the root. — Jacq. Coll. v. 5. 38. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. V. 2. 165. Ait. Hort. Kew. V. 2. 281. — Clafs 

 and order, Hexandna Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Coronaria, 

 Linn. Afphodel'i, Juff. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx none. Corolla inferior, bell-fhaped, in 

 fix deep revolute fegments. Stamens inferted into the co- 

 rolla. Stigma three-lobed. Capfule abrupt, fomewhat 

 triangular. Seeds few, oblong. 



Five fpecies, from Southern Africa, are defcribed by 

 Jacquin and Willdenow, and figured in Jacq. Ic. t. 373 — 

 377. They have fcaly lulls, hnear-lanceolate leaves, 

 coming after the tall, ilalked clujler, of numerous greenifh 

 flowers. D. elata. Curt. Mag. t. 822, and D. pufllla, Jacq. 

 t. 37-1-, are the only ones in Hort. Kew. 



DROITWICH, X.penult. r. 423, and 2079. 



DROMORE, 1.3, r. 1295. 



DRONFIELD, I.4, r. 267 and 1343. 



DRYANDRA, in Botany, received its name from 

 Mr. Brown, in honour of his friend Jonas Dryander, M.A. 

 a diilinguifhed pupil of the great Linnceus, who fucceeded 

 the celebrated Solander in the place of librarian to fir Jofeph 

 Banks ; and after rendering eminent fervices to fcience, died 

 under the roof of his illullrious friend and patron, in October 

 1 8 10, aged 62. Mr. Dryander has erected to himfelf a 

 lafting monument in his Catalogus Bibltotheca Hijlorko-naturalis 

 Jofepht Banks, the moil elaborate and complete work of the 

 kind, and the mofl perfect fpecimen of correft execution, 

 that perhaps any department of fcience can boail. His 

 papers on Begonia, Lindftea, and other fubjeCts, in the Tranf- 

 aftions of the Linnasan Society, richly entitle him to botanical 

 commemoration ; to fay nothing of his abihties as editor of 

 the firfl; edition, and part of the fecond, of Mr. A\toi\'i Hortus 

 Keivenjis, as well as of Dr. Roxburgh's Plants of Coroman- 

 del ; or his various fervices to natural fcience m other 

 refpefts. Thunberg had long ago publiHied a Drvax- 

 DR\ (fee our former article) ; but that provmg not dif- 

 tintl from Forfter's Aleurites, previoudy eilabhfhed, Mr. 

 Brown has happily chofen a moft diftincl genus, next akm 

 to Banksia, and fcarcely lefs rich in number and beauty 

 of fpecies.— Brown Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 10. 211. t. 3. 

 Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. I. 396. Ait. Hort. Kew. v^^ i 219. 

 —Clafs and order, Tetrandria Monogynia. Nat. Urd. Ag- 

 Sregata, Linn. Proteacea, Jufl". Brown. 



Gen.Ch. Common C«6'.v-hemifphencal, of numerous, per- 



ment, imbricated fcales, many-flowered. Cor. of one 

 3 O petal, 



manent, 



