DIO 
“The only known fpecies is D. Mufcipula, figured by Ellis 
‘in the places above cite , copied in Shaw’s Nat. Mife. t. 40 
But Venten. Jardin de la Malmaifon, t. 29. and - in 
urt. Mag. v. 20. t. 8. » are original figures. It gro 
the fwamps of North Carolina, lat. 35° sorth, and was i 
inadried fate by John Bartram to Peter Collinfon, who, in 
1765, fent the fameto Ellis. Solander communicated a ipe- 
cimen to Linnzus, from which, and Ellis’s paper, the charac- 
ters in the fecond Mantifa were drawn up. William 
Young fent living plants to Kew in-1768, fince which time 
others have frequ uently been brought to England, where they 
seta one feafon in a ttove, by means of Seats heat 
oifture, but feldom furvive our winters. great 
fapulaity of ‘the plant confitts 1 in its ark which are radical, 
num 8, {pre vate, — oe 
an 0 once appendage, an or more in breadth 
when expanded, but compofed oF ao beaters lobes, 
‘ftrongly toothed at their outer edge, coloured and glandular 
within. On the infide of cach lobe ftand about three highly 
irritable ereét briftles, which, when touched, caufe the two 
> 
fa) 
m. Introd. 
deferibed 
a {pan hig , bearing a a cor ae oe nes Eee {no 
flowers, fomewhat refembling, i in general afpe&, thofe of ie 
Parnaffia, the petals moreover being, like theirs, ftriped with 
.pellucid parallel veins. Our knowledge of the fruit is im- 
perfeét, but it feems very much to accord in general ftru€ture 
with thofe of Parnafia and Drofera, at leaft fo as to f{tamp 
them all of the fame natural order, while ar aaa 
v. 2.t. 82, he theory 
-a {cience of conjeCture to jultify dog matical conclufions, and 
any univerfal fyitems founded upon it can as yet be but arti- 
cial and incomplete. Such attempts, however, conducted 
with due modelty, are lauZable, and muft in the end lead to 
fome truths. S 
1on#A, 10 Gardening, comprifes a plant of the low 
growing herbaceous perennial exotic kind; the Venus’s Fly. 
trap, D. mufcipula. 
It rifes in a fimple flem to the height of about fix a 
-which ends ina fpike of milk-white flowers. It has tw 
seed at the oe joint of the leaf, which sont a fort 
trap, hence its name. 
© Method of Clie —This is a plant which is increafed by 
— 
owth, the ey 
e removed into feparat 
bog earth, dew water, oe thade, cen given till they become 
well rooted. 
The plants cia require to be placed in a frame or 
green-houfe, fo as to be protected from the full fun during 
‘the fummer heat, and have a free air, with proper waterings ; 
poe in the beginning of autumn, placed in the green-houfe, fo 
s to be guarded from oe effets of froft being very mode- 
iy watered at that per 
efe are plants hci are of the fenfitive kind, affording 
variety among others of the exotic green-houfe f 
DIONE, in aa a a ne nymph, the daughter of 
Ocean and Thet and the mother of ia by Jupiter. 
Dione, in Bie yy 2 Gate of Co.u 
_ DIONTA, in Ancient Geography, a mee of the ifland of 
Cyprus, 
BIO 
‘DIONIS, Perer, in Biography, educated to the prae< 
tice of furgery, in which he acquired confiderable fame; be- 
came firft known by being appointed hal of the leGtures 
in anatomy and furgery in the royal ens at Paris, initi- 
This i 
and che royal children, 
a ede to the 16th of December, t 
his death. His firft publication contained the hiftory oe a 
woman, who was fuppofed to have died in confequence of a 
rupture of the uterus. She was only in the fixth month of 
her pregnancy. On cpening the body, there appeared, the 
author fays, to be two uteri, one of which was ruptured. 
But as*the woman was only in the fixth month of her preg- 
nancy, it is probable the foetus had never reached the uterus, 
e 
re are no - of ruptured 
curring at fo early a period of pregn ; This was pub- 
lithed in 1683. In 1690 he publifhed OA one de Phomme, 
futvant la circulation du fang, et les nouvelles decouvertes,” 
ufeful epitome, icp a: al t was then 
j as well received, and frequently 
It was tran fated, in 
order o 
Caen of his fubjects 
s has bie reprinted 
{till more frequently than the former eae, and has been 
tranflated into nearly all the modern languages. Heitter 
gave an edition of it ia Latin, with notes, and,yit fill retains 
pS 
“Ss 
ee 
— 
a 
a 
oO. Traite sain a accouchmens,’? 
8vo. This ‘aMfo pa "been tranflated i oft modern jan- 
guages, though it contains little more erga an abridyment 
of the practice of oo and is now almolt e entirely 
unnoticed. Hall. Chir. Eloy. Hitt 
DIONYSI Pra Fin ecacslerngs ot Civitas, in Halieié Geo= 
sraplys a promontory or town, fituated in ie fouthern part 
o ifland of 'Taprobana, according to feveral copies of 
ea 
NYSIA, an ee of the Mediterranean ve over» 
againft the coalt of Etolia.—Alfo, an ifland of the fame ae 
over-againit the coaft yee. in Afia Minor. Pliny 
that it was fometimes called Caretha.—Alfo, an Ba eed 
town of Afia, under the metropolis of Boftra—Alfo, a town 
of Greece, in in {aid to have been built by Bacchus: — 
Alfo, a town o 
Diony dade or Dion folemn feafts, held among the an- 
cients, in hono 
The word is onned con ae Gr 
alas “and ee 
eek Asovueiz, of Aigwoory 
of Atos, the genitive of Zsus, Jupiter, and 
/y fa. city in Egypt, on the frontiers of Arabia, where 
Bacchus is faid to have been educated by the n se 
The Dionyfia are - fame with what are other called 
Orgia, and by the Romans Bacchanalia and Liber 
here are divers feftivalsunder the denomination i Stone 
. The anci 
where it was held in the 
month of Elapbebolion, This feftival was celebrated by the 
Athenians with extraordinary magnificence ; a and 
omedies 
