DAWN 
ich, and a i town of Cappadocta,. where Cyrus fo- 
joursed three days 
DANABA,a town of Afia. in Syri ass ‘antag by Ptolemy 
in the Palmyrene territory, S.W. of Palmyra 
DA or DANATI, a town of “A fin, in the Pontus 
Polemoniacuss fituated near the uae of the river Tris, in 
the 41f degree of latitude, accordi ing to Ptolemy. 
ANAE, or ae 2, davon, or davexn, in Antiquity, a coin 
‘current ani0 the rane a being fomewhat more than 
‘the obolus a his they put into the mouths = dead people, 
to pay for their paflage over the river Acher 
Danas, in Fabulous Hiflory, the only daughterof Acrifins 
who, having learnt from the oracle, that his grandfon would 
bereave him of his crown and life, fhut her 1 up in a beaees 
.defperately in love with his niece, corrupted the fidelity of 
er keepers by means of money, and having obtained accefs 
to her, fhe became the mother of Perfeus. This fable is 
comprehended by Ovidin a fingle ne Aas 1; ) ** Perfea 
quam pluvio Danaé c onceperat au e has given 
-it a moral application, in order to cmon i power of 
-gold over mankind: 
‘© Aurum per medios ire fatellites 
ovit, &c.” 
In order to palliate the difgrace of ses intrigue, it was 
given out, that Jupiter, enamoured of 
a ee rai 
himfelf into a fhower of gold; 4 wa e probable, 
that Sey if we may believe Voffius, (De ‘Gna et Progr. 
‘Idol took upon him the furname of Jupiter. Pau- 
fanias (in as h. eee the tower, or rather apartment 
f brafs, in which Danae had been fhut up, and affures us, 
that it fubfifted till hes time of Perilaus, the tyrant of Argos, 
who demolifhed it; adding, that even-in his time, fome 
remains of the fubterraneous palace, containing Danae’s 
chamber, were to be feen. Danae, being delivered of Per- 
feus, was expofed, by Acrifius, with her fon, to the dangers 
of the fea, but, at Jength, hofpitably received by the king 
of Seriphus,-one of the Cyclades iflands, who educated 
After feveral adventures, Perfeus went with 
“oO 
a") 
and re-eftablifhed his grandfather, iia ag who 
pried in his dominions 3 but e was endeavouring 
to s dexterity in playing at eis he flung his 
ae ‘by eu ae Acrifius and flew him. Paufan. in 
‘DANEA,} n Botany, a moft curious genus of dorfiferous 
ferns, was-firft feparated by Dr. Smith from the “{jplenium of 
Lin to which it has as little affinity as any two plants 
of the “fame ie order can have to each other, and was 
named im 
de 
eeu. 
a in 
ae eo Geaes, Filic. ie Clas and ces ey es je 
fices 3 a Exannulate. Nat. Ord. Filices dorfifere 
Eff. Ch. Capfules of one cell, burfting ee a pore at the 
fummit, rcunetated together in two pa ie 
double row of crowded capfules is sranged along each 
vein of the frudtifying leaflets, iabae all together an ob- 
bedy, mts with 
urface, which are 
the orifices of the capfules. Thefe are not, as Dr. Swartz 
fuppofed, ek open, but continue clofed ‘iD the feeds are 
DAN 
ripe, which are iad minute and abundant, refembling 
the fineft duit. The 
prefume to think, in pit thefe rows or congeries of 
capfules as fingle capfules of many cells. 
ove, not without much 
from their perfe@tly 
indeterminate number of thefe ade capfules, which is 
limited chiefly by the fhape or dimenfions of the leaf, and 
the rows being oe hough ‘rarely, from accidental 
circumftances, interrupte 
Sp. 1 nodofa. Sm. Traéts, 260. Swartz Fil. 167. 
Lcd. 281. (Afplenium nodofum ; Linn. as 
1, 1539. Lingua cervina nodefa m major. Plum. Fil. go. 
; leaflets linear-oblong, (efile, 
arly — ae with capfules to the edge. 
Root creeping, thick and knotty, producing two alternate 
rows of Mee ert accompanied at their bafe ee acute undivided 
fcales. Each rond is about four soe high, 
ftraight, tran{verfe, sari ers moftly in pairs. . 
clofely covering the leafle 
Capfules 
of fome {maller ftonds, from 
. whofe veins they tie of a lightifh brown when ripe, 
. each row extending from t 
e main rib very nearly to the 
sl ie with rudiments of a membranous partition between 
emai 
2. D. * eliiptica. (Filix major, in pinnas tantum divifa, 
raras, latiores, oblongas, — €x ae a et non 
crenatas. Sloane Jamaic ; talk 
winged ; leaflets elliptic. oblong, ‘Ralked, nie, 
ine Ob 
ructification nee t 
#he 
ti 
in the former, and their leaflets half as long, though f 
a broader and elliptical. The latter, moreover, ftand on 
fhort partial footftalke. The rows of cap/ules {carcely extend 
fo near to the edge of the leaflet on which they grow, but: 
are more remarkably feparated from each other, at leaft in a. 
half-ripe flate, by a double prominent undulated membrane, 
The frond in our fpecimen is clothed with minute jungermans- 
nie, evincing its moift and fhady place of ae Sy 
alata. Om. 
cervina nodofa minor. 
towards the top ; leaflets ferrated, bare of frutification near . 
the margin. Radical {cales _ and jagged. A native of 
Martinico. Fronds about two or three feet bigh, fcaly. 
Leaflets nu , fro to nches long, on fhor 
ftalks, eblonee ea ae fenatd feteay pointed. Rows 
ortion than in aa of" 
. ia thorter and broader 
tormer, with double, ftraight, eReunE a: nes, 
ot extending to the margins of the leaflets, (meine 
a ‘confderabl diftance 
D. fimplicifolia. Rudge Pl. Guian. 24. t. 36. Frond 
fimple, elliptic-lanceolate, entire. Communicated by T. F. 
Forfter, Ef who received it from Guiana. This 
differs from all the reft in its fimple fronds, which are Sx or 
eight inches long, lanceolate, inclining to creed acute, . 
entire, {mooth, fomewhat oblique, each ftandin a red- 
difh fcaly falk, above its own length. The fee fronds 
are covered with crowded flender double: lines of {mall cape 
ful 
ess 
