DIP 
‘female pudenda; but the figure of the ftone is owing to the 
internal fhape of the fhell in which it has been caft. This 
omia, which has fuch 
ually 
r, have received in different places 
different eae nA He cavity, all which would neceffa- 
rily be of this for ear, among aut oe 
black, and ae aiae Vien of ee kind. Aut thors have 
treated of this hilo in a very idle and fabulous manner; but 
this is its true hifto 
DIPHYL 
two 
afs ca order, 
. Ranunculaceae, Jol. 
. Cal. “Perianth of Hie ae concave, deciduous 
leaves.’ Cor. fies fix, mag than the calyx, {preading, oval, 
concave, deciduo am. Filaments fix, very fhort, flat ; 
anthers stibay aay their cells joined by a membrane 
from top to bottom, by ‘the ie a ee they hci 
fifi, Germen ely any; ftigma 
capitate. Peric. ue) nearly aichulaes “Of one cell, {cfiile. 
Sceds two or three, round:th. 
Eff. Ch. Petals fix. “Caly x of three ge ae 
Berry fuperior, oF one cell, nes = ort ie ee 
.cym X, t. TQ, 2 d by chat botanift 
in the rivniets of ne high ation “of North Carolina, 
flowering early in May. Root creeping, apparently perennial, 
jointed. The herd ee the habit of Podophyllum peltatum. 
Stem fimple, two feet . Leaves two, alternate, ftalked, 
kidney-fhaped, foment peltate, two-lobed, jagged, heat 
veiny, {mooth. Cyme terminal, many-flowered, ere&t. Flower. 
white. Stamens thorter than th petals, and oppofite ie 
them. Berries blucith-black, with purple feeds.— From the 
defcription and figures of Michaux, who thinks this genus 
allied to his Caulophyllum, t. 21, the Leonie thaliarades-of 
Linnzus. € om however belongs to the natural order 
of Berberides in Jui 
DIPHYSA, ( ele a fc a eal from the two 
inflated appendage es) Amer. 205 
Schreb. S00. * Willd, ‘Sp. rk v. 7 1130. Jol. 362. Claf 
and order, sr iad Decandria Nat. Ord. “ae 
Linn. Leguminofe. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. 
compreffed, divided h 
two uppermoft ro 
e 
- the 
lanceolate, pointed, concave, ere&, rather longer than the - 
Cor 
reft. Cor. -papilionaceous. Standard obovate-oblong, large, 
_ notched, flat, with a concave c 
claw 
than the faudard.  oreeline | in in fron coherig behind ae as 
to look like another ftandard, furnifhed with a fmall appen- 
dage at their bafe, tapering down into a flcnder claw, and 
curved backward ina femi-circle ; kee] fickle-fhaped, pointed, 
compreffed, fhorter than the wings, furnifhed with an appen- 
dage on each fide at = bafe, caine behind at the lower part, 
6 flender claws, cur 
with a 
the length of the keel, in a h they are enclofed ; 
Pift. Germen linear, roundith, talked, about 
the length of the keel ; ftyle capillary, defcending, extendin 
beyond the keel; igma fimple, acute. Peric, Legume 
. ne involucrum. 
DIP 
linear,-compreffed almoft flat, obtufe, of one cell; accom 
nied on each fide by a large, longitudinal, membranous, ine 
i bladder, clofed all round, originating from the oppofite 
futures on eac | Seeds a as oblong, obtufe, com~ 
ar ay furnifhed ‘with a {mal aq. 
Eff, Ch. Calyx five-cleft, une mal. Legume of one cell, 
with many feeds, compreffed, accompanied by a large iene 
tudinal bladder at each fide. 
D. fel is. Jacq. Amer, 208.t 181. f. 51. Mart. 
Mill. 2 mon every where in bufhy places 
about ayo ia i Nee w Spain, ails ly at the foot ofa 
hill near the (epee 8 noel bloff ming in Auguft and Sep- 
tember. ‘The inhabitants call it Vionp eca 
Jacquin, from whom alone we have any knowledge of this. 
plant, Linnzus having left it unnoticed, defcribes it asa fhrub, 
about ten i high, of no beauty, and without thorns. Leaves 
piniiate, with an odd one, {mooth, about two bes 
the you Be branches. PM/ower-/lalds axillar 
bearing two or three yellow inodorous lee, ab 
fize of the common via fratefcens. The bladders of the 
a are eee oe The legume is {carcely two inches 
een time on the tree » fading to pieces at 
iat nae, each portion containing one yellowifh 
€ 
DIPLASIASMUS, from isla of dirroos, doubles 
in Medicine, a reduplication of difcafes. 
Diprasiasmus is alfo u - for two mufcles in the army 
which ferve to turn it abou 
LAZ ati in 0 Botany, oka han a. ‘ ca Sag 
mgi. (H oe 
: Fa g. f. 1. Tra as 2 23 le Gat 
and aga Me aie Filices. Nat. a Filices Linn. Juff, 
eo. Ch. Capfules annulated, in difperfed twin ines, 
which a ie ae e or branched, running parallel, and. 
clofe, to the vein f the frond. times 
the bac : ome 
one line j i3 scontinned en than its companion, and in fome 
parts of t nd even entirely fo.itary lines may be found;. 
but it is fufficient for the generic charadter if there be twin 
lines any where. uvoiucrums likewife in pairs, each confit 
ing of an hag ah membrane, originating from each 
fide of the vein, and feparating at its oppofite margin, 
ff. ructi fiction in ttercd lines, each o ni 
double, with a vein running between. Tnvolucrums ee 
nating from the veia and cach Se outwards, 
OLf. This genus was very properly eftablifhed by Dre 
Swartz as diftinét from the original Hemionitis of Linnzus,. 
which he having feen in its native freth ae ound Me = ve 
ee H s not having 
had the fame opportunities of examining ie tao conceived’ 
his fpecimens might have lof this part from age, a 
fore not being able to depend on a negative char ov which: 
it was impoflible to eae he confidered ann 1 ad with ine 
volucrums as the o 
naked, {quare, about a {pan high. Leaf about ber fame lengt thy, 
ovato-lanceolate; rather eee crenate approaching to ferrate 
with a ftrong mid-rib, an merous ac, forked, dif= 
tind veins, along ig die ‘ines of. frudtification run on 
ach fide. 
*D. grandifolium, Sw. Syn. Fil. ot. (Afplenium grandi-. 
folium; Sw. Prod. 130.) ‘* Frond prinnate; leaflets lan-. 
seolate, broad, fomewhat ferrated, angular at the areal 
: : lative 
