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eleCced member = Fermanagh, and = chofen fpeaker in 
the houfe by the court party, Sir n, in his opening 
peech, was faid i be guilty of much Hien toward the 
king, who had fhewn him many tokens of his favour. In 
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He foon after une to England, and went feveral circuits 
as judge. He was now elected member of parliament for 
Newc.- fiedtinder- Line, and fat in the parliament of 1621. 
He died in 1626 in bis fifty-feventh year, after having been 
lately appointed gee of England. The prin- 
cipal profe wor John Davies were publifhed in one 
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DAVIESIA, i in Botany. a New Holland genus of Papi- 
lionaceous plants. with ten diftinét pro named in honour 
of the Rev. Hugh Davies, F.L.S. of Beaumaris, one of the . 
chief contributors in Welfh plants to Mr. Hudfon’s « sa 
nglica,’” »s well as to the ‘*Flora Britannica” ard “¢ E 
Botany” r. Smith and Mr. Sowerby, and author of a 
paper, on four Britifh Lichen, in the 2d vol. of the Lin- 
mean Society’s Tranfactions, Sm. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 4 
_ of : : 1.506. Clais and order, decandria 
monogynia. Nat. Ord. Lesuminofe, fe&. 4. Jul. 
Gen. C Cal. camp2 a ae a n five vario us feg- 
ments. without any append _papilionaccous, of 
five petals; ftandard ey ene eee bro cxed 
wings aga oblaney pair ate 3 - lr fee: fence than 
tooth above, near the 
afe. uae awl-fhaped, 
equal, diftin@, afcending, coaainee anthers roundith. 
Pift, Germen fuperior, an comprefled 5 fiyle afcending, 
anthers 3 figma timple, acute. 
e cell, and two cartilagi- 
kidney-fhaped, com- 
er 
ae varies fimple, pesca: 
Ef. Ca Corolla pa- 
pilionaceous. St} fa awl-fhaped. Stigma fimple, acute. Le- 
ecompreffed. Seed folitar 
1. D. acicularis. Sm. in Sims and Konig’s Annals 
6 
of Bot. v. 1. 506. ¢* Leaves linear, revolute, pungent, 
aia rouzh, with minute tee foli- 
ary.” Stem rubby, branched, rigid. 
ene numerous, 
rough tot 
ver in ate 
concave, ro 
down into Give 
variegated with crimfon, moft pecaliar to this genus, 
that, in drying, the eile t ave white, and the crimfon 
y 
becomes a dull purpiufh brow Legume femi-ovate, fharp- 
pointed, perfectly compreffed, ae a lines long, of a 
rich polifhed chefnut-colonr. ativ South 
wae near Port on. John ‘Vhit, M.D. 2. D. 
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ncrafjata. § Leaves parenas 5 tha 
cel oblique, Wes {pinou 
Sm. MSS. nole fhrub of a thick and peer {uc- 
culent habit. ene perfectly decurrent, fcattered, ver- 
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yellow. Found at King George’s Sound, on the weft 
coat - New — land, by Mr. A. Menzies. 3. 
Sm Anon ot. ve I. 506, 
(D. slicifotia “A. dr. rier . 304.) ‘© Leaves 
flat, pungent, ftraight, {moo 
Sm. MSS. rather more ih fhrab 
dian either of ae former, with feffile, not decurrent, fmall, 
lanceolate, {mooth leaves. Faas copious, fnall, 
brateated, folitary eer yellow, with a eon eae 
fhaped fpot in front of the ftandard, and a ftain 
fame hue at its back, which eb of colouring feeins univer 
ned. ought fro t an 
vaifed from feed by feveral cultivators about Lon 
the only real {pecies of Davisfia aoa in Britain, {t 
thrives in fandy peat earth, witht clter of a green-houfe, 
be fparingly fupplied os water in winter. Jt 
ay or 
hen fides. es in parrs, 
s. Flowers axillary, folita ee mall 
~ branching fhrub, of which we have ee only a “dried pe 
cimen, sae by Mr. Menzies near Kinz Georze’s Sound, 
New Hol Its numerous eaves, rather above half an 
inch ee e moft elegantly reticulated on both fides with 
fine yellow Garertidek ae veins. Stidulas intrafoliaceous, 
or ftanding within the infertion of each eaf, a ver 
able character, this being the only fpecies, except the firft, 
e 
in which thefe organs have been bene at all, and they 
here roach greatly ies nature of the ftivulas of the 
genus Putienea, as alfo do the bradteas of the prefent plant, 
being filky at their cal and clofely imbricated round the 
bafe of the almoit f{cflile flower. The ca/yx, however, des ” 
cides the genus, being eral and deftitute of appendages. 
The legume ia not been f » D. fquarrofa. Sm. in 
Ann. of Bot. v. I. 5 eaves Hen thaped, pungent, 
reflexed, rough in marg gin. — eat axi peel 
ingie-flowered, Bigs! folitary An of th 
not far from P 
t Jack isi New ‘South Wales, ‘whole 
thick woody Senn root thro us, flender, 
see like, furrowed, rough, flightly. branched flems, two 
feet high, clothed from top to bottom with numerons, 
fmall, {cattered, feffile, reflexed, heart-fhaped, /eaves, whofe 
edges are thickened and reugh, and their points fpinous. 
rom the bofompof each leaf {prings one, rarely two, flender, 
{mooth, sp aie about as long as the cor rrefpond- 
ing = ae a 
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ae cae appares 
two-lipped ca . D 
<¢ Leaves lanceolate, flat, pungent. Fiow 
ftalks axillary, {clitary, each bearing an umbel of about cas 
flowers. Allied to the Jaft in habit, 
ves much longer, 
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in having the upper lip - the calyx guy cae 
and not cloven. ‘The calyx in this genus is a part of th e 
frudiification lass moi paraiat oe eae encase 
= neareit a rymbofa- .in Ann. of Bot. 
fr. 507, “ Teaver less ie ic. ean: Flower- 
flalks axillary, i in pairs, corymbofe, many-flowered. Calyx 
regular.” athered by colonel Paterfe on, near Hawk four 
river, New South Wales, It is larger than the lait. ia 
