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circle of Boleflaw; 16 miles W.N.W. of Jung-Bunt- 
a {mall town : Sena ny, in the circle of ~ 
a quarry of ay ood mill- 
gr ane es by the Elbe. 
Germany, in the circle of 
of Traunftein.—Alfo, a lake of Swif- 
i. 
TBING, in Agriculture, a term fignifying plaftering 
with a in on operations of ploughing, harrowing, 
UBY, a aa _ applied to clayey land when wet, fig- 
nifying claminy, or fticky. 
DA UBENTON, aie Mary, in Biography, doctor 
medicine, member ya | Academy of Sciences at 
Paris, and of the Royal Societies of London and Berlin, was 
born ] agate in Burgundy in 171 Having taken his 
degree of medicine i ent to Paris, and 
he ce leading him aaa to the ees of com- 
parative G as, thro e influence of his 
In this fituation he 
was enabled to con abies very pene to the {plendid na- 
tural hiftory, firft publifhed by M. De Buffon, in 17-49, 
and which kas been feveral times reprinted: every thing v 
men and animals in that 
of 
Flo a e fa rear *6§ A eed View of 
ae ”? with their diftin@ive characters, according to a 
ne which had contrived; he alfo com 
municated to the Academy of Sciences * Obmian ots on 
the Liquor contained in the Allantois of Animals,”’ 
fome ‘* Teeth and Bones remarkable for their Size,’ a nee 
his 'p 
dence, he not only efcaped being maflacred during the revo- 
lution in France, but, in 1799, he was eleted member of 
the confervative fenate. He die ecember, the fame 
year, in the the 84th year of his age, and was honoured with 
an 
a funeral oration by the naturalift, Lacepede. 
Anat. General Biography. 
DAUCHIT A, in Ancient Geography, a people of inte- 
rior Libya. 
DAUCIONES, a people of Scandinavia. 
DAUCUS, in Botany. Carrot, rata Diofc.) Lion. 
ie A3e ue Willd. Sp. Pl. v 1.1389. Jaff. 224. 
Clais and order, pentandria digynia. Nat. 
rth Onl fer or Unie Nate. 
Ch, pound; concave when in es 
Trulacrum of pein par ‘leav ves. Cal {wperior, as 
olete. Cor. Petals five, inverfely heart-fhaped, inflexed ; 
Stam. Filaments five. 
capillary, {preading ; anthers round:fh.: Pi. Germen int: - 
rior, {mall, elliptical, compreffed, rough; ftyles two, reflexed ; 
Peric. none. Fruit ovate, hifpid. Sed, 
iy elliptic-oblong. Central flowers of cach umbel abor- 
Haller Bib. 
diant. aie muricate Central flowers abortiv 
‘arota,. Common Carrot, 
Woody. Med, Bot. t. 161. uff. t. 82. bien- 
nial, frequent in a wild ft he borders a = 
and univerfally cultivated for its jan eee t. The 
are finely divided and fubdivided. Stem owe: hie 
branched. Flowers white, numerous, the central ore only 
in each umbel being of a more or lefs deep blood-red, 
ungl. ran t L574 
b 
vem Ch. Involucrum pinnatifid. Corolla fomewha ra- 
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and abortive. D. Gingidium is a ae broader-Jeaved {pes 
Sra found in the fouth of Europe, from which D. /ucidus, 
uppl. 179, proves not to “ different. D. Vifnaga 
of Pee ufed in Spain for tooth-vicks, is rather a dates 
f Ammi. Several new area of Daucus are announced i 
ihe Prodromus Fl. Grace by Dr. Smith, and gthers ae 
be found in Desforitaines Flora Atlantica. 
Daucus, in Ga — al taunt a plant sh ay tap 
rooted efculent kind ; ommon D. Car 
Method of Culture. ai ele culture of this ufeful ae 
a ee light foil fhould ke employed as much as poflible, 
completely turned in. When this bufinefs is not performed 
in a perfect manner, the roots are. liable to fpread in a 
Sin dire&tion, and become branched, and of but little 
“The fituation fhould be open, and free from the droppings 
of trees, ¢ or other i inconveniences of the fame kind. 
e op fhould always be ih as has been 
ealeaen: f of the preceding year, and which is 
perfeétly freth er well ripened: as old feed never anfwers 
well in this culture, ala of 1 : ae in a ftate ee of 
ee in a proper manne 
the tafte, when dreffed for th 
And the ue varicties aa Ties rown wales variety is 
wanted er fort is made ufe of, it is of much confe-« 
quence to ea qecuie feed. 
As to the times of oe this fort of crops, they muft vary 
anted. 
from January till the beginning o ay; but for the 
principal crop, the fowings fhould eel be performed about 
the aa end of January, or in the beginning - the follow- 
ing m ing may I: ag . a ade ae to 
and a rough ae winter, for 
crop; or-early crops of this fort ma - obtained iy forcing 
them on hot-beds. ‘The principal crop generally becomes 
ready for ufe about the beginning of June. 
In the fowing of the feed, after the forface of the bed 
has been tendered perfeétly {mooth pee even by the rake, 
it fhould be diftributed in as even a manner as poflible 
over the whole, and then carefully eee in. 
ne ou w 
aad thick, efpecially when the foil inclines to be heavy. 
In very light foils it is fometimes the praCtice to tread in the 
feed, to prevent its rifing in heaps, raking the furface over 
er ewardas but this fhould never be done where there is any 
degree of ftiffnefs in the land. The fowings are aay per- 
orm 
