DAV 
five or fix inches ps refembling thofe of feveral Mino/e 
of New Holland, almoft lanceo! a hg tly ablique, entire, 
f{mooth, acute, ue not tippe eee Flower-fialks 
axillary, in pairs, corymbofe, ae unequal, one being 
earlier than the other, both nen than the leaf. Br _ 
one under each partial ftalk, and fome fcattered. Flowe 
apaad their calyx-teeth as nearly equal and regular iis 
they c e in a papilionaceous flower. 8. 
DAV 
gaged in the fervice of the eae republic, by which he 
was employed in duties of the higheft import ; and in thefe 
acquitted himfelf fo well, and fo ach to the fatisfaGiion of 
- ieee heart-fhaped, clafping the ftem, eo cctcd: wit mth comprehends at events 0 years, viz. from the nee of 
veins, Flower-ftaiks axillary, clufered, corymbofe, many- Henry to the peace of Vervins, in oe and is highly 
flowered. Calyx truncated.” Nv This fpecies efteemed for es peripicuity of the 
is very remarxable for its large heatt- fhaped /eaves, three or 
four inches long, clafping the pes angular branches. ‘Th 
are with a prominent net-work 
Flower-flalls corymbofe, —_ 
four or five from the bofom of each leaf, brafteated, many- 
flowere wo upper teeth of the calyx combi: oe an 
trancared as in the 6th fpecies. This 
country near g George’s Sound, 
large{t of its Benes “havi ving the habit of fome great Borbonia 
Crotalar 9. alata. * Stem leaflets, winged. 
Calyx and braéteas fringed.”? Sm. MSS. 
d near Port Jackfon, but 
ought to Europe. The adult 
jiem is triply winged throughont, the wings {mooth, entire, 
2] 
ee 
even, about a line broad, tapering down to the bale of eac 
branch, and only interrupted here and there buds, fcat- 
folitary from 
fe rays 
“feveral larger braGteas, very naka eee or fringed, 
and the elongated, nearly equal, teeth oF he calyx are fringed 
in the fame manner, which is one o of the ftriking peculiarities 
of this plant. 10. D. juncea. * Stem leaflefs, round, fur- 
rowed, naked. Umbeis lateral, Calyx and bra€teas en- 
tire’? Sm. MSS. Brought by Mr. Menzies from King 
George’ s Sound. Its rufhy habit, fomewhat like Spartium 
Junceuin, the flem being round, furrowed, roughifh, without 
any wings, renders it abundantly diftin@ from the laft, to 
which it 13 otherwife next akin he dradeas ard calys, 
oreover, are not at all fringed e former are peculiarly 
concave and ribbed ; the latter eae regular, indeed, but 
the five teeth are fhort, their edges very minutely downy 
only. Petals of both thefe ea as far as can be judged 
from dried fpecimens, of the 
fame colours as in the gene- 
ftyle and 
and for the fidelity and accuracy of th 8; is res 
fletions are judicious and feniible, and his narrative is plea- 
In the following year he was appointed to 
f Crema, and fet out from Venice on his 
journey : an aeeaee difpute ra between him and the 
perfon who was hound to furnifh him with carriages, which 
terminated in the death of Davilla,,.who was fhot dead by 
his brutal opponent in the prefence of his wife and children. 
Some other perfons were killed and wounded in the affray ; 
but one of his fons revenged the death of his father on the 
murderer. The beft editions of Daviila’s hiftory are that of 
the Louvre in 1644 3 . aaa in 1733; and that printed 
in London in 1755. s been oie into feveral 
modern rae ie More 
D S, Joun, an ac navigator, who has given name 
ay, was born at Sandridge, 
difpofition for a mearine life, an ¢ 
after‘he was admitted to follow the es of h 
he acquired great aaa on. In 1585 
with the condu@ of an expedition, ie explori 
weft paflase from Bc to the Eaft In Fics. 
ceeded to Greenland, and after paffing the moft foutherly 
one he came to that ftrait which has ever jince borne his 
And in a third, in 1587, 
failed as far as lat. 73° 
in with American pads ion the circumftances attending 
thefe voyages he became fanguine in the expectation 
finding a paflage; but the threatened S i 
obliged him to return home. He failed, 1591, to the South- 
feas, as captain . = aay jee the comman 
of Mr. 
— of the avendifh, by whom he was charged with mifcondué in 
Propagation ma Culinre.— All the eae are fhrubby, deferting him. his Mr. Davis made five voyages to 
-and, probably, like paplionac cous plants in general, belt e Indies, in the capacity of lot. During the laft 
raifed from feeds, which,-in this tribe aa or the moft he loft his life, in engagement with fome Japanefe, on 
part, be kept long, and (av ane to a great diftance. It 
as rather remarkable that feeds of D. whcina ae as far as 
we are informed, have fueceeded in Euro ope. f the cul- 
tivation of this we have alreadyfpoken. It is tai a to be 
capable of being multiplied by cuttings, which is needlefs, 
as its feeds ripen well in our green-houfes. 
Daviesia denudata. 
NARIA denudata.- 
DAVILLA, Henry Carn yeni in Biography, a cee 
lebrated Ae Pane as born in the year 1576, in 
P: held ena poft in the kingdom 
Venten. Chois.-t. 6. See Vimi- 
ua 
at the defire of his father, and, upon his death, Henry en- 
a rates the nort 
pelea are 
the coalt of Malacca. 
year 1605. He left behind him an account of fome of his 
a and other tracts. Biog. Brit 
ISBURG, in Geography, a a pofttown in Chriftian 
county, v ieentueky’ 816 miles W. of Wafhin 
@, a cove on the weft oa Of the ifland 
1s°s Jnlez, a river or a 
of Labrador, a mouth oo mates in N. lat. 
W. long. 60° 
Davis’s Land. See Easter algae 
Davis’s Quadrant. See Back- 
Davis’s Strait, in Geography, a apa’ v fea which fepa- 
main o ar alee from weftern coaft of 
ng N. W. fr m Cape Farewell N, lat. 60°, 
ile a at. 80°, fee ag to W. long. 
co nicates with Baffin’s bay, which hes to 
che. north of his ftrait, and of Ke none main, es ae 8 
8 fland, 
oaft 
56° 20’, 
to ome 
