‘DID 
-each ear is a black patch furrounded with white. The tail, 
which is prehenfile, 1s of the fame colour with the body for 
half its length, but the remainder is black; it is remarkably 
ull of hair, and tapers in a flight ha towards its ex- 
tremity, but does not terminate ac 
oe 
black, rounded, and very full; 
n wer part of the 
pofterior feet are furnifhed with a rounded 
unarmed ens This’ curious animal is of the noéturzal 
kind, remaining during the greateft part of the day in a flate 
of torpidity, but appearing in the night time sa of vigour 
and activity. {pecies inhabits New Hol 
Dr. Shav 
Sides “frnihed with a flying membrane; 
body cinereous above, white; tail very long and 
black. Didelphis iin, sane ope: Shaw 
‘Zool. New Holl. 
This {pecies is about the fize of a black rat, and is of a 
dark or brownifh grey above, the lower furface white; the 
head and neck are alfo whitifh ; a dufky firipe runs along t 
the top of the head, almoit to the nofe; the ears are whitifh, 
moderately large, and flightly rounded; the upper parts of 
e fore feet are whitifh, a a pofterior half of the tail 
sa eae than the other Native of New Holland. 
Sides fu cited with a flying memb rane ; 
‘tail fee innate and linear. ‘Didelphs pygmea, pigmy 
a w Zool. New Holl. 
Lhe aot cma of the opoffum tribe, its fize being 
equal only to that of the common moufe. This elegant 
little animal is furnifhed on each fide the body with an ex- 
panfile membrane, like that of the flying {quirrel, and by 
the affiftance of which it is enabled to {pring to a confidera- 
ae dittance. The fur is extremely fine; its colour a foft 
d palifh brown above, beneath almoft w eed ae nefe, 
eS eet, and ears, internally, are light pink. The 
TAs 
ae 
vend hairy and : ack. idols pene “ing vail Opa, ein 
“Shaw G 
The pre aie colour of this pcre ig cinereous, 0 
ben grey; the nofe is rather st a 
‘large, and of a very flightly pointed form at the tips ; 
fides cf the mouth are furnifhed with very long fine brifles 
and others, fomewh at een are fituated under each eye. 
membrane. The tail is 
LPINA. Terrvginous ; tail hairy and black. rei 
—— ie tae oe Phillip’s Voy. New South Wales 
one of arger {pecies of opoffum, a tere 
about fecgt inches from the nofe to the bafe of the 
DID 
tail, and the tail itfelf being fifteen inches in length. The 
pencral colour is dufky grey, with a rufous tinge — and 
being tawny buff colour, deepeft on the — Tne tarl 
is of the fame colour with the back for about one- ae of 
It is con- 
reality be no other than the lemu- 
rine opoffum, Didelphis een 
Yeilowifh, with the upper lip bifid. Shaw 
ho ae of large fize very lately difcovered in New 
Han 
It fagald be lafily obferved, that Gmelin includes the 
kanguroo in the didelphis aed under the fpecific name of 
gigantea, a circumitance that muft have sien from pean 
tion to the ftruGture and arenpea of the teeth and o 
effential characters, which at once remove a fingular aa 
mal from the didelphis tribe. See Kancuroo. 
LTA, in Botany, (from dis, double, and d:xix, the 
Greek letter A, in allution to the form of the fructifying 
dif, which refembles ay equilateral triangle within ano- 
ther;) L’nerit. Stirp. t. 2 it. Kew. v. 3. 256. 
chreb. 590 Willd. Sp. Pl. 2262. Juff. 182. La. 
arck t. Claf 
- 3: 
m and o ee Synge a polygamia-fruf= 
tranea. Nat. Ord. Cory nb hele Sed. eagle we sry 
en. Ch. Cal. t mon one penne outermof in 
three deep, ovate, widely Iprecting fegments ; inner in 11 or 
12 sa 7 pointed, 
c to it nterna m 
tam. Five j in all the florets of the difk; filaments capil 
very fhort ; anthers united into a tube: in thofz of the rad 
folitary and obfolete. Pift, Germen'in the external florets 
of the difk oblong, compreffed, immerfed in the receptacle ; 
ftyle thread-fhaped ; ftigma cloven, revolute: in the central 
rmen is minute and roundith: in the marginal 
the edict fc) 
pat) 
ae) 
<< 
ww 
fhort, fimple, rigid. e€ common receptacle is triangular, 
divided into four triangular parts, of which the central one 
is naked, the reft fungous and briftly. Eff. Ch. Recepta- 
cle briftly, pigs tne its centre triangular and barren. 
own of many fcales. Outer calyx es cae eo 
nner in many. .carnofa. Ait 56. 
Wi lid. Sp. Pl. v. 3 2202. (Ds tragoniefli Teherit. 
Stirp. Nae 
55-t. 28. Polymnia carnofa; Linn. Suppl. 
384. Choriftea Gaal . 163.) Succulent- 
leaved Didelta. “* Leaves alternate, lanceolate < oblon 
y.” Grows at the Cape of Good Hope in fandy ground. 
ie ts fent to Kew garden in 1774, by Mr. Maffon, and is 
kept in the green-houfe, flowering in July. Stem fhrubby, 
branched, angular, {preading. Leaves from an inch to two 
‘inches long, thick and juicy, entire, obtufe, fomewhat 
downy beneath. Flowers on long, fimple, folitary, aa 
ftalks, ae and handfome, yellow or aie alyx with 
pr ickly teeth. 2. = ale Ait. Hort. Kew 256. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. v 2262. 
Sup 
Po ade eee ; rere 
pl. 384. Choriftes eats Thunb. Prod. 163.) O 
polite ed Didelt 
pS 
«“ Leaves doa ibe half clafp- 
ing the fem’ 
are the Cape ood Hope, by 
Thunberg 
