DAT 
it, and called it Philippi. It became famous for the battle 
ee under its vee Loa the troo igi 
Gohud; 96 niles 
DATURA, in Bing. *thorn-apple (from the American 
name of this piant, of fimilar found, made claffical by Lin 
neus from do, dare, daturus, becaufe it is saver asa = 
pea ae en. 98. Schreb. 3. Willd. S dL 
Ju 3. Clafs and aa eee ae 
Nat, Ord. bee Linn. Solanea, Juls 
Gen. Ch. re of one = “nkion, pe pl five-angied, 
five-toothed ; its bafe permanent. C e petal, funnel. 
ube pare a sues as long as hee calyx ; limb 
d, five little acute teeth. 
obt ufe. Pil. 
Peri ric. " Capfale 5 
two cells and four v 
fhape 
Bt "Ch. Corolla funnel fhaped, plaited. Calyx tubular, 
angular, partly deciduous. cel 
and four valves. 
ground in various erie of Eur is am annual, 
rank growth, and of a feetid {mell when bruifed. Leaves 
flaccid, ovate, finuated, recta Flowers folitary, ftalked, 
white, fragrant at times. Fruit very {pinous. Its 
qualities are narcotic a dange . fafinof2,, purple 
ftov 
rous. 
€, from the ee nee is Calas in our 
re 
a le ernie. D. a 
eee Cincee a native 
fules {mooth. 
it = becomes a weed. 
kno 
It is eafily cated in a bar 
Six or feven more fpecies are 
metel ), a 
cultu 
Method of Culture —Thefe are plants which are propa- 
gated annually, by aay pn feeds of the two firft or hardy 
other places where the plants 
tting air to them fre ely i in their early growt 
Some inches high, removing. them into feparate pots, rex 
Capfule fuperior, of two cells. ,, 
' called 3 
DAV 
i tple ep gs in the hot-bed, fo formed as to draw them 
etty tail-growth, When the weather becomes 
as about June, they may be removed into the 
cing previon{ly hardened in a gradual manner by 
ue expofure, 
ders or other places, with balls of earth about their roots. 
he two oo kinds are the belt faited to ae Tal method of 
manageme 
Both ihe fit and fecond ae are adapted to the large 
borders of pleafure-grounds, where they have a good effec 
in mixture with others of a fimilar growth; but th 
is fometimes troublefome as a weed. The other kinds, from 
fe) 
3 
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the beauty of their flowers, produce a pleafing variety in 
ane with other ee annual plants. 
4 Stramonium, inthe Materia Medica. The whole 
of this plant i is pow eens arcote and poifonous. It was firft 
introduced into medicine by toerck, and employed b 
afes of mania with fuccefs. It is occafionally 
in epileptic | other convulfive diforders, fome- 
obvious eparation commonly 
, if recent and we 
ie 
apan 
DAVACA Terra, a portion of land in Scotland, fo 
apud prifcos Scotos, dawach of land, quod 
contin ane gente aratra terre, quorum unum quodque tra» 
hitur o€to b 
DAV. ALLTA, in oo a genus of dorfiferous ferns, 
named by Dr. Smit Memoirs of the urin Aca 
pare in ioncae of Mr Edmund Davall, I. L.S. late of 
O n Switzerland, a moft acute and a. botanitt, 
whofe illodrations or " Swifs plants, cust left at his death, 
in 1798, in an incomplete ftate, ne one day be found wor- 
thy of being a to : public. Sm. in Mem. 
. PAcad. de ny v.5-414.t.9.f.6. Tracts, 245, 
-f.6, Sw oa Fi. 130, * Gals and order, i ae 
fice feet. ye ate. Nat. Ord. sie dorfife sib 
Eff, Ch. Cap/ules in roundith, feparate dots, near the m 
gin. Cover like a feale, ie the are difting, ae 
a aes nating av 
The habit of this ce is as polifhed, and compaét, not 
a baal membranous and expanfive like a trichomanes or 
adiantu The involucrum or cover is often lunate, always 
folitar at each sauid congeries of capfules, ge each cap- 
{ule is — ed by a Siar gra en ed ri 
p.1. D. heterophylla, Sm. 2504 Si. Fil 
(Humata ophioglotia; avan. Loca 245). 
ovate, acute, undiv 
ma 
ig are 
midrib and many fine vein 
but narrower, finuated like he leaf ofa  sosgaalak each lobe 
bearing feveral {pots of fru&ification, every one c ef which i 
concealed by its own kidney- ah cover. 2 D, pina, 
either in the Petes or ona out in the bor-- 
ided, entire 3 fertile ones linear arlaeeoat, 
atra, and alfo in. 
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