DIC 
confpicuous D. adiantoides, t. 264, found in watery boggy 
sroun 
From this genus the learned Piel mer pon removed D. 
Ga of Fi. Brit. to Péer ount of its 
ateral fruit-flalks and — fealv the ae ; ard hej is followed 
in Engl. Bot. t. 1993. D. pulvtiaten of Swartz el Fi. 
ric. 18 aD rem aived to Grimmia in Esgl. Bot. t. 17283 
omum 3 fee Ex ied, 
" ae 7 ae is pi 
m, Fi. Bee and of Dickfon, is found not to d 
ae Engl. Bot. t. 14393 while the Anglefea plant i 
the Rev -s, from which the full defcription was 
made, 1S 3D.a rium 
; ene in part for thefe defalcations, we have to 
announce, that D. Jongifolium, Tedw. Crypt. v. 3. t. 
anne in Scotland b Mr. George Don; a {pecies of which 
ad no certain intelligence, as Britifh, wuen the 3d vol, 
a Fl. Brit. was publith: S 
DICRICH. See Dreexiee H. 
DICROTUS, in Natural Hiftory, a word ufed by the 
g wheo in its third year’s 
me 
aw 
firk year, puttolea , dicrota in the third, and 
in the isles. ie all its life stermards ceraftes 
Dic m dss, fevice, and xpew, T firike, § inthe Me- 
dicinal iW ritings of the A wcients, the epithet given to a pe- 
e, which Dr. Nihill calls very properly in 
In this kind of pulfe the 
artery hea as it w 
a future critical hemorrhage by the nofe. 
Pu 
DICTAMNUS, in Botany, (fo called by Linneus after 
the didlayor or cvdizpvos of Theophraftus and Diofcorides, 
neither does his 
e 
‘wiley, to bring tide confirm 
tion o rfuitable that explanation might be to 
the rea al Ditt ae of Crete, Origanum Diétamnus, and the 
hittory of its ws ai arrows from the wounded goats, it 
has no reference to lant. Hence Tournefort, and o 
tolerable, as a generic name, to 
have taken the plant in queflion for the Jexysoy of Diorides, 
but with no great appearance of probability ; nor ha 
Sibthorp, though he gathered it in vain eft us oe in- 
formation concerning its Greek name, antient or modern.) 
FraxinelJa, or aa Sapeeh Linn Ca. 2cg. Schreb. 
287. Wild. 544. Jul. 297. (Fraxinella ; 
Gertn. t. Pa " Clafs ac Order, Decandria Monogynia. 
Nat. aly Le ba Rutacee, Jul. 
h of five {mall oblong pointed 
octal s 5, ovato-lanceolate, pointed, 
twifted up- 
war 
h. paahs 
“laments - {prinkied with refinous glan 
a finiple Capfules five, conjoined. 
Vou, XI. 
DIC 
The only {pecies is D. a/bus. Linn. Sp. Pl. 548. 
Sp. Pl. v. 2. 541. Jacq. Aufir. t. 428. Bavh. Pin 
(Fraxinella ; ; Ge er, em. 1245.) A native of fhady ee ee 
e, Switzerland, Italy, 
bee 
” illd 
ae 
name Poids 
whitenels of the root. The who 
{trong aromatic effential oil, fmelling hke lem 
a refincus flavour, to many perfons a agreeable, 
ry weather, a highly inflammable vapour is emizted by 
the flowers or their vilcid flalks, which explodes on the ap- 
proach of a flame. 
Dicramnus capenfis. 
DictTamnus creticu ce 
RIGANUM. 
as US i, or Pfeudodidamnus. 
ou. + 
See CALODENDRUM. 
See Marrue 
bo 
amnus, in Gardening, comprizes a plant of the 
herbaceous, hard erennial, F 
inella, or White Dittany, (D.a 
two feet in height, with — ae and the 
when gently rubbed, emits an odour fimilar to cae afforded 
by sae but when ied has fomething of a bal- 
famic {m 
R 
Qa a 
—“ 
hee varieties with white ea, hee red and purple 
become ripe, o the Spring; but th 
beft feafon, as the plants rife ftronger, and with more 
certainty. Th nts fhould afterwards be kept per- 
fetly clean from weeds, and have their flems cut down 
and cleared away every year in the Autumn, as well as 
he earth dug round them in the early Spring. 
to be taken 
inches diftance each way, to 
up and planted out in {mall beds, at fix or eight 
ftand two or i three years, till 
to remain. Piney wn at length of time, and 
require little are except that of ie kept free from 
weeds, and trimmed as above in the tumnal feafon 
hey are plants which are well oe to the middle parts 
of beds, a clumps, and other compartments of orna« 
mented grounds. 
DICT concen in the come a ts 
— or fet t of a man’s confcic A ace 
n becomes evil, “i done eontaut to ~ Gane ae one’s 
own concien nce. 
ATE, Didata, is likewife ufed in the Schoo/s for a 
ieffon, or exercife, wherein the mafter reading, or fpeaking 
fomething, the fcholars me it down tn writing after him. 
Here the aé of the mafter is likewife called diftating. 
DICTATOR, a Roman magiftrate, creaced by the 
fenate, or people, on fome extraordinary and eminent occa- 
fion, to command, with fovereign authority, for a certain 
time, abegene! limited to fix moaths, though the office was 
fometimes continued to ieee 
Th he nomination of this magiftrate appears to have been 
affigned by law to either of the two coniuls; but the choice 
4G was 
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