DIO. 7 
Colchis with Jafon, It muft have taken the name Sebafto- 
this town. It is 
. topoli. 
DIOS sae Sear a town of the Peloponnefus, in Phlafia, 
wees to Pol 
DIOS-GYS, a Cua. a town of Hungary; 32 
miles W. of Tokay 
Pres S-HIE RON, 
Geography, a town of Alia Minor, in Lonia, fituat 
~~ dittance fom the fea, between Lebedus and Colophone. 
e 
now in ruins, under the name of Seda/- 
cr 
rN) 
med by Linnzus from ds, 
B10¢. Jove, and ocun, a fiell, on account of its “ divine odour,” 
which inthe Diof/ma hirfuta fee compares to that of the ftarry 
anife, or Lilicium ait “atum § fee Hort. Chiff. 71. Nothing, 
eferse the epithet of divine than the {cent of 
Monogynia. Nat. ord. Multifilique, Linn. though referred 
by lun, Hartogia at leaft, . his Agsreg ple from whence he 
acee. Juff. n o Didamnus, 
by that sete ina ae “feétion, the 
though placed 
ing at the time not well under- 
natural order in queftion bei 
ficod. 
= nC, bela Perianth in five deep, ovate, acute, per- 
ent fey te. Cor. Petals ee coe bluntith, 
feffile 2, fli ae {preading. Nedlary five {csles crowning the 
germen. Stam. Filaments five. awl- ee ; anthers fome- 
what ovate, incumbear. Pif, Germen fuperior, turbinate, 
with thr five angles, crowned with 
the nelary 3 ftyle 
fi nple, ereet, the lenoth of the ftamcns; figma fmall, obtufe. 
d by their inner edge, 
ovate, pointed, comoreffed ; their fummits fpreading ; open- 
ing at the upper margin. Seeds peel oblong, polifhed, 
enclofed in as ela _ ic arilius of two valve 
ie Ch. Peta _— eStary five este crowning the 
germ mple. Cap‘ules three or five, con- 
i wae 
See oe in an clattic bivaive ii 
From this genus are now neceflarily feparated the 
D. uniflora and anscapfularis of Linneus, the aay being 
an Ertoftemon the latrer an Lmpleurum ; fee thefe genera. 
Hence the polymorphous character of Diofna, alluded to 
y Linneas in his Syfema Vegetabilium, is in a great 
meafure obviate 
Willdenow defines 30 ee of Diofma, all natives 7 
the Cape of Good Hope or the adjoining country 
fhrubs of a moderate fize, ane branched with fimple aes 
moftly entire, fometimes elegantly crenate 5 their form aw!- 
aped or linear, rarely elliptical or heart. fhaped. The whole 
as sae abounds with pellucid gisnduiar dots, the feat 
ial ol. Some few have ciliated 
but Hy en habit is fmooth. The 
erated. 
Ob. 
Wwers 
times ee cente 
Nize f{pecies are enumernte) in the Hortus Kewenfis, but 
fome others have been brought into the Enguifh garderis 
. Air fut 
fince ni work appeare ta is one of the oldeft 
{pecies. D. /erratifolia, Cart. Mag. v. 13. t isan 
and aac ne, {aig to come from New South Wales, which 
ig not improbable, as that country piaeontde more Sage 0 
this natural order than any hitherto examin 
in queftion is very near the crenata of Caden wick lal, 
or Temple of Fupiter, in Ancient — 
ed 
DIO 
with D. pulchella.and ericoides, are {aid to be principally 
ufed by the ree os alled by aa ae ero The 
dried and powdered, and w 
leaves are ixed with 
‘greafe ferve to anoint ae beds of oe eovly ghee odour 
ae as difagreeable to profeffor Lannea as our more 
re e to thofe not accuf- 
tom ane them, efpecially fince more cleanly habits have 
se them into di 
D Gardening, comprehends plants of the low 
cee ee exotic kinds ; of which the fpecies moft! 
cuitivated are the oppofite- leaved diofma (D. cbpofifolia) 
the hairy-leaved diof{ma hirfuta) 3 oweie 
D. Reha and 2 Te hike re tee di- 
‘Method we Cubure —Thefe are plants which are capable of 
being increafed by planting out the cuttings of the young 
fhoots in the {pring or aa feafons, in pots filled ie 
ee ne piunging them in a moderate hot- 
ed. Aft 
e plants have flricken hea) roots, hae fhould be corefully 
ken es and placed out feparately in pots, proper watering 
d fhade being afforded; and they afterwards require to be 
aa from the effeéts of bad weether in the green-houfe, 
and to have the sere a of other fhrubby exotic plants 
of a fimilar low fhrubby gr 
e great beauty o i sible and the fragrant {mell of 
many of thefe plants, particularly entitle them to places in 
collections of the fhrub kind. 
OS-OROS, or or MON ° in Ancient Geography, a 
ay 2 Africa Propria. 
Di AGE, a town of Ala, ia n Mefo opotamia, Pliny. 
DIOSPOLIS, a town of Afia,in Syria. Pliny soaci . 
near the town of een on the fea; Strabo places it 
Phrygia. It is the fame town with ee on the — 
and is called alfo Rhoas and Laodicea—Aifo, a town of 
Fey pt, called Digfpa magna, de fame with nie 3 
which fee.—~Alfo, Ka: feopal town of 
" (See Ging. )—Alfo, a town of 
near Mendes, according to peeks ioe 
in ie nome of Bufiris—aAlfo, a of 
Afia Miner, thynia, on the coaft of the Euxine ie. 
Prol. —Alfo, a town ' Arabia, Pseiers called Berytos. 
Steph. Byz —Alfo, an epifcopal town of Thrace.—Ailo, a 
n of Paleftine, ale ee ayaa on an extenfive 
plain, der Je trom E. to t iterranean to 
ns of Judea, feven or aie lage and much 
more Coa S. toN. It was three miles trom.the town of 
Ramle The ay of Antonine leces it be miles 
rufalem, an This place is 
ain the facred writings ; 
and ancientiy forme the kingdom of Ifrael, or Sa- 
maria, according to the iff book of the Maccabees, ch. ii. 
Mention is made of this town in the hiftory of Pom- 
pey’s expedition in Judea 
vil wars of the feco iiead : Ca 
the Eaft, expofed its Levens to pub fale; but Mare 
Antony, by a decree, reftored their liberty, and re-eltablifhed 
he 
cour of king eckons it among the prefec- 
tures of Judza, ‘and ae sees it in the number of the 
When Palefline was divided 
oder the reign of Arcadius, the 
C of Dio cies epiiaied under the metropolis of 
efarea 
DIOSPONTUM, a place of Afia, in the fecond - 
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