DEN 
cultivated are the five-leaved dentaria, or tooth-wort (D. 
pe) bulbiferous dentaria, or coral-wort, (D. bule 
bifera 
The fir fort rifes with a ftrong ftalk a foot and a half 
high, with a leaf at each joint, aa of five lobes, four 
inches long, and near two broad in the wideft part, eee 
in acute points, and deeply ferrate they are imooth, 
fland on loag footitalks; the fi flowers grow in loofe ies a 
the top of the ftalks, are a and of a blufh colour. Itis 
a native of Switzerland, & 
The fecond kind has a peer root: the ftem is fimple, 
a foot in height ; the lower leaves have three pairs of leaflets, 
and an odd one, which is confluent with the pair below it ; 
eae are ge lanceolate and ferrate ; 
on nthe tops of the ae and fleth’coloured or purple. ‘The 
fcaly bulbs in the axils of the upper leaves, falling off, take 
root, and propagate new plants ; fo that it t rarely produces 
It is a native of Sweden, flowering in April and 
“Method /. oe —In thefe plants the propagation is 
ff g the feeds in a light fandy foil, where - 
3 th 
able of being increafed by 
planting them out, a there is a due degree of 
and fhade, in the autumn or {pring 5 ard in the latter fort 
they may be iol by Gina the bulbs produced on the 
fides of the ftem 
Afterwards, the only culture — —_ ftand in need of, 
weeds, and in the firit 
are alfo capa 
to proper fituations in the {prin They moftly flower and 
produce feeds in the fecond year’s growth. 
Thefe are a fort of plants which are well adapted to the 
borders and other ea of fhady walks, and other fimilar 
they grow well; and have an ornas 
ty. 
VERTEBRA, in Anatomy, the fecond ver- 
tebra of the neck ; fo called from a peculiar procefs, which 
See Le 
DENTED, Invenrep, soothed. See IxpewtED, 
Dentev Wheel, in Mechanics. See 
DENTELLA, in Botany, (in allufion a the minute 
teeth of the corolla, om which the generic charater is 
b 
founded.) Tort. 13. t. 13. Schreb. 124. Wil 
Sp. Pl. v. 1. 972. Jufl. 200. eae and order, Pentandria 
Monogynia, Nat. Ord. Rubia 
Geu . Cal. Perianth aaa in eave deep awl-fhaped 
etal, funnel-fhaped, longer aa 
; b recular, 
ftyle. 
the he. ee feveral, ova 
ff. Ch. Calyx fuperior, in nave deep fegments. 
Corol 
funnel-fhaped, in five fegmente, — with three Airey 
Capfule of two cells, with many fee 
e only known fpecies is D. repe rod. 17. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. v. t. 972. (Oldenlandia si Linn, 
Maria 
DEN 
Mant, 40. puke Ind. 38. t. 15. f. 2, very bad, with ar 
erroneous {yn r Vv, 10. t. 37. -Alfine 
f{pergula ind. or. &c.; » 10..t 356. f 5: 
a ole oe Rumph. Amboin. v. 6. 4 170, 
f. 4, good.) A native of various pats 0 oe the Ea indice: ; 
found ie Forfter in 2 New Caledonia. It is faid by Rum- 
Diager aie. foli- 
Corolla rather longer than the leaves, 
ender, white, often with a purpli nh tinge. Capfule 
nearly globular, the fize of a pepper-corn, clothed all over 
with prominent, jointed, obtufe, peilucid hairs, which 
render it very confpicuous and remarkable. The plant is 
not known in our gardens, nor has it been found of any 
for} 
ufe. 
DENTELLARIA. See Prumsaco sae 
DENTES, in Anatomy. See Cranrum and T 
i, the firk, or bacon. “Tet 
of teeth; for an account of whiah, fee aren 
DENTEX, in Ichthyology, a {pecies of Sparus; which 
TICI, Luter, in Biography, a Neapolitan gent - 
man, who publifhed at Rome, in 1553, two dialogues on 
mufic. Of thefe, though the fabject tuins chiefly upon’ 
the mufical proportions, and modes of the ancients; in at- 
tempting to explain which, Boethius feems to have been the 
author’s principal guide; yet, in the fecond dialogue, we 
have an account of what was then a modern concert, from 
aang ae {peaking with rapture of a performance which 
ad heard at the palace of Donna Giovanna d’Arragona, 
tells us that the ote muficians who played on iniftru- 
ments, and were of the firft clafs, were Giovan Leonarda de 
1’ Harpa Napolitano, Pai da oS Battifta Siciliano, 
Ferrara ; and that the fingers were Giulio 
ncifco Bifballe, Conte de Briatico, 
oc 
nito di cont tl 
nella i ha aa o nella a pronontiatione, re) nel fuonare, o ae: 
fare i paflaggi, a vero nel remettere & rinforz vo 
quando een c 
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per a arte per 
e few mulicians,” fays 
the author, “ who fing to their inftruments, that have 
entirely fatisfied me: as they ea almoft ail. fome defect 
of intonation, utterance, accomp 
Donna 
di Cras Marchefe della Padula, ey Signora 
Fagiola, as being poffefled of all the requifites of vocal per 
oO 
may be concluded from this converfation, that the 
Sora among the male fingers was an evirato; that much 
art and refinement were expected in vocal performers, ; befides 
finging in time and tune; and that, by the titles of count 
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