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ee rows of trees, Pci aa great ha lis a nd bras 
Crevier’s Rom. Emp .x. Anc. Univ. Hitt. ¥ 
Gibbon’s Hitt. vol. 1 
DIOCLETIANOPOLIS, in Ancient Geography, an 
epifcopak town of Thrace. — Alo, an epifcopal town of 
hrygia. 
DIOCLIA, in an epifcopal town of Alia, in the Paca- 
tian Phrygia. 
DIOCTAHEDRIA, in Natural Hiffory, the name ofa 
genus of {pars, The w ord j is derived from the Greek ds, 
siwice, abe eight, and idpa, a fide. ‘The bodies of this genus’ 
are {pars compofed of alae cight planes, or two oGtangular 
oa joined bafe to bafe, without any intermediate co-” 
lim il’s Hk. of Foff. 
DIODA 
ATI, Jorn, in Biography, ? Ase ahlty preacher 
-at Geneva, was born at Luc 1589, 
noble family of the Catholic pein ie lane, an 
early age, embraced the Proteftant fai 
rate wr his principal work was a 
tranflation of the whole Bible into the Italian language. He 
publifhed alfo a complete French tranflation of the Bible, 
anda tranflation of « Father Paul’s Hifory of the Council of 
Trent ;”’ and various other works. reri. 
DIODIA, in Botany, (from Avodos, a paffing from one 
-place to another, in allution, as Linnzus informs us, to its 
growing by paw ) Linn. Gen. St aoe 67. Willd. 
Pl. ern. s and order, 
Sp. Pl. v. 1. 580. 197. 25. Clafi 
' Letrandria tongue. Nat. Ord. Sula. ia Rubiacea, 
- Cal. Perianth fuperior, of two or three fome- 
oundifh, with four angles; fly hread-thaped, the len 
of the ftamens; fligma cl Capfule ovate, with 
four angles, crowned with the enlarged calyx, of two célls 
convex, and furrowed on the outfide, fat on the 
. Ch. Calyx two or three-leaved. Corolla of one 
ie " funnel- fhaped. Capfules of two. cells. Seeds foli- 
“D. virginiana. Linn. Sp. Pl. 151. Jacq. Ic. Rar. v. 1. 
t. 29, is the only {pecies which was known to Linnzus, or of 
| which any figure exitts.. It was found by Clayton in Vir- 
ginia, growing in watery places, and has not yet been culti- 
vated in ae olan of Britain. 
It has 
cumbent and rooting, 
hie aso wie enthre leaves 
- each about two ilies lone. ae in a cultivated ftate, rough. 
aa he went to Geneva,’ 
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only at the edge. Stipulas connate, fringed. Flowers axile 
lary, ae crm white, {mall, the upper furface of their 
petals rough, and the one. according to 
online of a larger leaves, and a{maller one, 
{pecimen, gathered by the celebrated John Bartram in Mary- 
land, we find the leaves very rough all over with rigid points, 
ee the fruit clothed with prominent briftles, with three 
leaves to the calyx. Diodia fi niplen, profirata, feandens and 
Sarmentofa, are font Wett Indian {pecies, {mailer than the fore- 
going in theirleaves and bloffoms, of which the ce laft are 
fomewhat woody. They were all gathered by Dr. Swartz, 
re defcribed in his Flora India Occidentalis, v. ie D. 
shel vo Va ymb. v 
yal m the original Diodia 
cues in having . upright ftem. Thefe are all the fpecies 
The t of the chi is fimilar to. that of the 
far more numerous one Sterm 
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senha diingithea ey having the jaws ebony extended, and 
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with white and black, hollow within, a covered w 
common {kin ; no ventral fins. , There are only five fe cies 
of this eaecsle genus at prefe nt known, unlefs fome of the: 
{uppofed varieties of the {pecies Hyfrix ought truly to 
regarded as diftinét {pecies, as we are inclined to ieee. 
“hey.are inhabitants chiefly of the American feas. 
Ss : 
Hysrrix. Spherical;. fpines triangular, Gmel. Ze 
Guara, Bloch. Porcuptne 
he porcupine fith, or, as fometimes called, the fea porcte- 
pine, is a {pecies of large fize, growing to the length of two 
eet. The ufual fhape is {pherical, but it poileffes the power 
of inflating or contraGting itfelf at pkafure, by means of an 
internal fin, or membrane, fituated beneath the exterior, or 
it with afudden {pring ; but finding itfelf fecured, it exhibits 
every mark of anger, inflating its body, and elevating its 
{pines.to the higheft poffible degree, and at intervals rufhing 
with unavailing impetuolity upon the pliable line, or beating 
about, as if endeavouring to wound in all direGtions. Till 
having at laft tired itfelf by ineffeCual ftruggies, it {uddenly 
ap the air from its body, and’ becomes a flaccid ; 
but, o ves, feo 
oubles i its rage, and again inflates its body, and in this fate it 
is allowed a iia cae length aA fufficient to admit.it 
to expend its ftrength in rolling a ore, as it is im- 
offible to ruck it without danger “il after its death. This 
{pecies is a native of the Indian and American feas, and is 
eaten by the inhabitants of the ndian ifla The 
fixin of this fifh is occafionally t off entire, and being 
dried in aa inflated, or diftended ftate, ferves the purpofe of 
a lantern, being fufj ended by the al having the lighted 
candle placed in the infide of the One of the fup-- 
pofed varieties of the fe Seposuniel 18 i a fomewhat rounded 
form, with fhort triangular {pines ; another is roundifi, with 
the fpines triangular at the bafe; and a third conic oblong, 
with the fpinesjong, and a litt!e.rounded. . 
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