DIP 
fRorter than the reft. The colour of the animal is brown 
above, and white beneath; the colours feparated along the 
fides bya yellowifh line. 
Tamaricinus. Fore feet three-toed; hind feet five- 
toed; tail tapering, and obfcurely annulated with brown; 
oo Saeugth. Mus tamaricinus, Pallas. Tamarifk rat, 
The length of this elegant animal is about fix inches, 
meafuring Fons the nofe to the tail, and the tail is nearly 
the fame length; the head is oblong, with large whifkers ; 
the nofe blunt, with the noftrils covered by a flap; the eyes 
large; ears large, oval, and naked; the fpace round the 
nofe and eyes, and alfo beyond the ears, white; the fides of 
the head and neck cinereous ; back and fides yellowih grey; 
breaft and belly white; tail afh-colour, and tinged more 
than half-way from the bafe with brown; the pofterior legs 
Toag in proportion to the fore legs, and the feet longitudinally 
Black ben eath ; fore feet deflitute of the thumb, but fur- 
rcle 
athern Ny of the Cafpia 
the warmer parts of Afia ; it hes 
in low grounds and-falt marfhes, and tee under the roots 
of the tamarifk bufhes, the fruit of which, together with the 
(esas maritime plants which it finds on the coafts, confti- 
tute - Las food. Each burrow has two entrances, 
and is very deep  thefe animals are rarely feen, except in the 
a aes when they quit their burrows in queft of food. 
Canapensis. Fore feet four-toed; pofterior five-toed ; 
tail longer than the body, ringed, and briftly. Jumping 
moufe = Canada. Davies Mem. in Lian. Tranf. Canada 
rat, Pen 
A final sae apparently firft defcribed by general 
Davies, who had an opportunity examining it during his 
refidence in aie eee and who has defcribed it in the fourth 
‘volume of the Linnean TranfaGions. The account is accom- 
panied by drawings, reprefenting-it both in its active and dor- 
mant ftate, from two {pecimens preferved in the general’s col- 
le€tion. With refpeét to the food, or weap of feeding of 
this animal, the general obferves, it is not in his power to 
fpeak with any degree yp neee ; for cheashe the firit was 
taken alive, and lived a a half, it refufed every kind 
woods amon ob- 
ferved to ie eer eee s y bighea The ¢ 
in a dormant flate was found by fome a a in digging 
the faites for a fummer-houfe in a gentleman’s garden, 
within two, miles of Quebec, the latter end of t was 
difcovered inclofed in a bail of clay, about the fine. of a cricket 
ball, at the “age of ibaa eee ae the furface of the 
early an inch in thick- 
thus fou hh terved i in cat sie never revived 3 it 1 
f{uppofed a ae heat of the. apartment .in which it was 
“derivation we are unable to explain.) 
xample ern. ed 
DIR 
placed, and in which a ftove fire was conflantly kept burning, 
was too powerful for its ref{piration. 
Di , in — aleBy The colour of this mineral is 
greyifh or reddifh-white, paffing in t occurs 
either cmpuare or in in forall fafcicu 8, 
sles atic cryfta t hasa ila vitreous luftre, a 
mellar ue Soil to the f a regular Geshe: 
on. It is moderately hard ad Seu. Sp. gr. 
oe 
oe o. 
tt is fufible with ebullition before the blow-pipe, and iss 
compofed, according to Vauquelin’s analyfis, of, 
60 Silex. 
24 Alumine. - 
10 Lime 
2 Waters 
96 
4 Lofs.. 
100 
When pulverized aad vows on a hot coal,it gives a palé 
phefphoric light. It occurs at Mauleon in the Pyrennécs, - 
imbedded in fteatite. 
DIPYRENON, from 34, .and wuemsa berry, in Surgery, - 
the name of a probe, with a double button at the end, ree 
fembling two {mall berries growing togethe 
DIRAG » in Geography, a town of ae Tur- | 
rele in the Arabian Irak; 42 miles S.S, E: of Bag-- 
RE; called alfo Deirea; or Deira, a promaontory and : 
an on the fouth-fide of the ftraits of Babelmandeb, in the ~ 
Arabian 
Diaz in Milage See Furi 
DIRCA, in Botany, Moufe- wed or r Leather-wo0d, (its ° 
Linn. Gen. 192. 
, 260. ek Sp. Pl. v. 2.424. Mart. Mill. Did. 
v. Jul. 77. Clafs and order, Odandria Monogynia. 
Nat. Ord. ie Slee Linn. 7dymelees Jufl. 
Gen. Ch. ne. Cor. monopetalous, club-fhaped 5 
tube {welling Goward 3 limb flight, with an unequal border. 
Stam. Filaments eight, capillary, un 
ube ten 
middle of the tube, and extending beyond the border ; 
anthers roundifh, er ermen fuperior, ovate, with 
an oblique point ; ftyle longer than the ftamens, capillary ; 
fligma timple. Peric. Drupa roundifh. Seed roundifh, 
folitary. 
Eff. Ch. Calyx none. Corolla tubular, with a flighe 
unequal limb. Stamens and ftyle longer than the corolla. 
Acad. v. 3. 12.’te 
Kaln's Travel, v. 2. 148. Ait. iL Kew. 
Du Hamel Arb. v. 1. 211. t. 212.. (Thymelea 
floribus ,albis, primo vere erumpentibus : foliis oblongis 
viminibus et cortice valdé -tenacibus, 
et ree frome ch bud, ne on fhort 
falker ian aa Jiyle protruding. far beyond the co» 
rolla. 
E, in Ancient Geography, the name of a ftream or - 
fountain of Greece, in Boeotia, placed by Plutarch near 
> ‘Trebes, - 
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