nae 
Veins wavy. Gathere 
ry in St. Domingo. ery handfome f{pecies, whole 
u Pinnee taper-pointed with a regu 
fta! k; apa or leaflets alternate, decurrent, three quarters 
and about half as much in breadth, oblong, 
lip fe, fharply crenate at the top, 
de eee pinn oir yy d with zig-zag hairy ribs and veins. 
Frudifications pale, glo! bofe, each folitary in the finufes of 
the leaflets. Inner involucrum 
i is feems undetermined by 
in the faulee globo fe, 
Av 
which we yno 
of Plumiers unquzttiouably belonging to o lant, he 
places ed t ubrful fpecies, accideatally writing mi- 
nor for . fo eed Fronds arian leaflets {effi'e, 
er tions numerous, globote. Tae invo.ucrum- wery fhort. 
Gathered in the ifland of Honimoa in the ie ee in 
July £797, by the late Me. Chriftopher Smith, to whom the 
author of the prefent article is indebted for mott numerous and 
itt i i e prefent fern feems 
entirely non-defcript. It appears to be four or fve feet high, 
of a fomewhat glaucous yreen. Frond alternately bipinnate ; 
its ftalks pate and {mocthifh beneath, fingularly hairy above. 
Pinnz long and taper-pointed, each compofed of 60 or more 
leaflet which are about an inch long, perfectly feffile but 
ot decurrent, linear-lanc eolate, sense finely and fharply 
el {moothifh ate A aise th, and 
m es cup-thaped, crenate, 
n fely inflexed ; the inner fo fhort as to 
be: a difcernible till the ball of capfules is removed. ; 
: leaflets { file, crowded, oblong, 
fern we know nothing, beiog 
the middle part of its frond, ii: t 
the Sandwich iflands. The nz are numerous, fonts 
f very nu- 
wded, feffile, linear- oblong, falcate, convex, ob- 
tafe, crenate ras which are veiny, and very glaucous 
a each being half an inch, or ra mor 
length. The veins are branched and f{mooth. Fruétifica- 
ions in an uninterrupted feries on the lower part of eac 
leaflet, at each margin, pale wn 1 Outer in 
volucrum truly orig! n 
though diferent in texture and cuvlou 
fhaped, fmooth and quite entire, ences the inner invo- 
lucrum, which is exactly like it, only fomewhat aes and 
more ufeful to defcribe 
remaining 10 1n z, among. 
and Trichomanes flaccidum ot F 
olypo ium whe and 
ahi ip. with Da are linearis of Cav 
‘aof M. Bory de St. Vincent ; ne three 
o Dr. Aieat and to ourfelves, ex- 
cept from defcriptions.- 
Roa 
SL, in pth ie atown of a al of Ceylon, 
Can ; 
r the ay coatt; 102 
WASSET, or a UASH, of Am 
in the cone of New Bente, ie cies iufelf 
into Paffamaquoddy bay. 
7 
-led ins or feed-lobes. 
DIC 
DICLINIA, in Botany, (from 1s, double, and xduvn, a - J 
is ufed by Linnzus in his Syfema Vegetabilium, p. 21, 
fuch claffes or genera of plants as have feparated flowers, the 
his 
oecia 3 or incom n Polygam 
latter clafs having ie \ohee aud vite toge 
others they are feparate. The writer of the prefent article 
has firft fuggefted, that fuch (radon of the effential organs 
of i impregnation in flowers, is of material i 
ms 
y 
the othe ee ihe ee as in the 
In t n 
circum Vance, the Linnzan clafs Polygamia, the burthén 
opprobrium of the fexual fyftem, on account of the uncer- 
tainties and difficulties which attend its determination, amon 
the trees of tropical climates more efpecially, will be brought 
the fame rule be extended to the 
into very narrow limits. he fj 
claffes Monoecia and Diocecia, they will alfo be delivered from. 
umerous genera and fpecies, whofe allies or whole conge- 
ners are in other parts of th Hence the whole are 
rangement will become 
and certain, and the three claffes in queftion will be fo much 
diminithed, that it may be expedient to unite them into one, 
under the title of Dichnta. See Itrodution to Botany, 395; 
470, 485. &e. 
DICOCCUS, Frucrus, a two grained fruit or 
veffel, technically applied to that delet kind of c¢ 
{ule which he as the appearance of being compofed of . a 
roundifh combined capfules, as in the ae iade fo 
named from that very circumftance. A three-grained, or tri- 
coccous, capfule is much more frequent; and a whole natural 
order of plants, to which the Luphorébia belonys, derives its. 
ensue and name from having fuch a fruit. See Tria 
acc 
DICOTYLEDONES, (fr trom obs, double, and xo! aniiig 
a cotyledon 5 which la word is techsically applied to 
= eminal leaf of a plant, dea becaufe its roundifh fo 
fizthy texture refembles the herb Cofyledon or Navel- 
for al fuch plants as have two coty= 
See Coryrepon. This vait and dif- 
cordant tribe makes up the chief part of a natural fyftem of 
arrangement, though indeed the families which have only one 
ft part, none at all, 
ane is a term ufed 
mb 
rs of Palms, Lilies, O rchi i es, G 
natural ord raffes with ‘ie 
a, and te all the Linnean clafs Crypfogamia, Moffes 
excepted. The latter have numerous and compound coty- 
ledons, Saga otherwife clofely related to plants that have 
none. o the Fir tribe, Pinus, &c. have numerous co- 
tyl<dons, though 1 in every other point agreeing with genuine 
dicotyledones. No natu 
; have 
done, with mak iftin@tion abfolute between Acotylea 
dones, Monocotyledsnes, aud ar tien ftill lefs can the 
Polycotyledones t ara ales together; indee 
this laft has never been sea te 
The two-feed-lobes of the Daaties like the numerous 
ones of firs and mofles, ufually rife out of the ground as foon 
s the root has fixed itfelf in the earth, witnefs the Lupines; 
te fome other plants, even of the 
{ LY» 
and F foci bean 2 are icacees while others remain ue itl 
altered: 
