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quantities of this plant cultivated in the weft country. 
This plant is propagated by fowing the feeds in 
March, upon a foil that has been well ploughed : 
about one peck of this feed will low an acre •, tor the 
chants fhould have room to grow, otherwife -the neads 
will not be fo large, norm fo great quantity. When 
the plants are come up, you muft hoe them in the 
fame* manner as is practifed for Turneps, cutting 
down all the weeds, and Tingling out the plants to 
about fix or eight inches diftance > and as the plants 
advance, and the weeds begin to grow again, you 
muft hoe them a fecond time, cutting out the 
plants to a wider diftance, for they fhould be, at laft, 
left at leaft a foot afunder : and you fhould be parti- 
cularly careful to clear them from weeds, efpecially 
the firft fummer ; for when the plants have fpread fo 
as to cover the furface of the ground, the weeds will 
not fo readily grow between them. The fecond year 
after fowing, the plants will fhoot up ftalks with heads, 
which will be fit to cut about the beginning of Au- 
guft ; at which time they fhould be cut, and tied up 
in bunches, fetting them in the fun if the weather be 
fair ^ but if not, they muft be fet in rooms to dry. 
The common produce is about an hundred and fixty 
bundles or ftaves upon an acre, which they fell for 
about one fhilling a ftave. Some people fow Caraway 
2nd other feeds among their Teazels, but this is not 
a good method, for the one fpoils the other ; nor 
can you fo eafily clear them from weeds, as when 
alone. Dr. Linnaeus fuppofes this to be only a ie- 
minal variety of the common wild Teazel j but I 
have cultivated both the forts more than forty years, 
and have never found either of them alter, fo that 
there can be no doubt of their being diftinft fpecies. 
DIRCA, Leather Wood. 
The Characters are, 
‘There is no empalement to the flower, which is club- 
fioaped, of one petal , having a Jhort-bellied tube , and an 
unequal border ; it hath eight fender ftamina Jituated in 
the middle of the tube , terminated by erell roundiflo fum- 
rnits , with an oval germen , fupporting a fender ftyle 
which is longer than the Jlamina, crowned by a fimple 
Jligma, The germen afterward becomes a berry with one 
cell, inclofing one feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feflion of 
Linnaeus’s eighth clafs, intitled Oftandria Monogy- 
nia, the flower having eight ftamina and one ftyle. 
We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 
Dirca ( Paluftris ). Amcen. Acad. 3. p. 12. Marjh Lea- 
therwood. Thymelaea floribus albis primo vere erum- 
pentibus, foliis oblongis acuminatis, viminibus & 
cortice valde tenacibus. Flor. Virg. 155. 
This fhrub grows naturally in fwamps in Virginia, 
Canada, and other parts of North America, where 
it feldom rifes more than five or fix feet high, but in 
Europe it rarely is more than half fo high •, it fends 
out many articulated branches near the root, gar- 
nifhed with oval leaves, of a pale yellowilh colour, 
and fmooth ; the flowers come out from the fide of 
the branches, two or three upon each foot-ftalk ; they 
are of a greenifh white colour, and appear early in the 
fpring, juft at the time when the leaves begin to fhoot ; 
the flowers are feldom fucceeded by feeds in England. 
This fhrub is very difficult to propagate in Europe j for 
as it does not produce feeds here, it can only be increaf- 
•ed by layers or cuttings, and thefe are generally two 
years before they put out roots ; for as the fhrubs grow 
naturally in very moift places, they are with difficulty 
preferved in gardens, unlefs they are planted in wet 
ground, but they are feldom injured by cold. 
DITTANY, the white. See Dictamnus. 
DITTANY of Crete. See Origanum. 
DOCK. See Lapathum. 
DODARTIA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 698. Tourn. Cor. 
47. tab. 478. [This plant was fo named by Dr. Tour- 
nefort, from Monfieur Dodart, a member of the A- 
cademy of Sciences at Paris.] We have no Englifh 
name for this plant. 
The Characters are. 
The flower hath a permanent empalement of one leaf. 
DOD 
which is bell-f japed, cut into five parts at top $ , tkl 
flower hath one petal, is ringent , having a cylindrical 
diflexed tube much longer than the empalement ; the upper 
lip rifes arid is indented, the lower Up fpreads open and is 
trifid , the middle fegment being narrow. It hath four fta- 
rifina which incline to the upper lip, two of which are 
(barter than the other, and are terminated by fimall roundijb 
fummits. In the center is Jituated a round germen, ./up- 
porting an awl-Jhaped ftyle , crowned by a bifid obtuje 
ftigma. The germen afterward becomes a globular cap- 
ftule with two cells, filled with fimall J'eeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fection 
of Linnaeus’s fourteenth clafs, intitled Didynamia 
Angiofpermia, the flower having two long and two 
fhort ftamina, and the feeds being included in a capfule. 
The Species are, 
1. Dodartia [Orient alis) foliis linearibus integerrirnis 
glabris. Lin. Sp. Plant. 633, Dodartia with very nar- 
row, fmooth , entire leaves. Dodartia Orientalis, flore 
purpurafcente. Tourn. Cor. 47. Eaftern Dodartia with 
apurplijh flower. 
2. Dodartia ( Linaria ) foliis radicalibus oblongo-ova- 
tis, ferratis, caulinis linearibus integerrirnis floribus 
fpicatis terminalibus. Dodartia with oblong, oval , 
flawed leaves at the bottom , thofie on the ftalks marrow and 
entire, and flowers growing in fpikes at the end of the 
ftalks. Linaria bellidis folio. C. B. P. 212. Toad 
Flax with a Daify leaf. 
The firft fort was discovered by Dr. Toiirnefort near 
mount Ararat in Armenia, from whence he fent the 
feeds to the royal garden at Paris, where they fuc- 
ceeded, and from thence molt of the curious gardens 
in Europe have been fuppliedwith this plant. This 
plant having characters which are different from all 
thofe of Tournefort’s Inftitutions, he conftituted this 
genus, and gave it the title from Monfieur Dodart, 
member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, 
and phyfician to her Royal Highnels the Princefs of 
Conti. 
It hath a perennial root which creeps far under the 
furface, and fends out new ftalks at a great diftance 
from the parent plant •, thefe ftalks are firm, a little 
comprefled, and grow a foot and a half high, fend- 
ing out feveral fide branches, garnifhed with long, 
flelhy, narrow leaves placed oppofite, of a deep green 
colour ; thofe on the lower part of the ftalk are fhorter 
and broader than thofe above, but thofe on the up- 
per part of the ftalk are entire ; and at thefe joints 
the flowers come out flngly on each fide the ftalk, 
fitting clofe to it ; thefe are near an inch long •, the 
bottom is tubulous, but divides into two lips above ; 
the upper lip is hollow like a fpoon, the convex fide 
Handing upward, and is divided into two parts ; the 
lower lip is divided into three parts, the middle be- 
ing the narroweft. The flower is of a deep purple 
colour, and appears in July, and is rarely fucceeded 
by feeds in England. It propagates very faft by its 
creeping roots, fo that when it is once eftablifhed in a 
garden, it will multiply faft enough ; it loves a light 
dry foil, and may be tranfplanted either in autumn 
when the ftalks decay, or in the fpring before the new 
ftalks arife. 
The fecond fort is a biennial, or at moft a triennial 
plant, which frequently periffies foon after the feeds 
are ripe. This fends out from the root feveral ob- 
long leaves, which are near four inches long, narrow 
at their bale, but increale in width upward, where 
they are about an inch broad, rounded at the end, and 
deeply fawed on the edges *, between thefe arife the 
ftalks, which grow a foot high, their lower parts be- 
ing garniflied with leaves o i the fame form as the 
lower leaves, but much fmaller •, the upper leaves 
are very narrow and entire. The flowers grow in. 
fpikes on the top of the ftalks ^ they are very fmall 
and white, but are fhaped like thofe of the former fork 
This is propagated by feeds, which fhould be fown 
in autumn foon after they are ripe, uporl a border of 
light earth, where they are defigned to remain. When 
the plants appear the following fpring, they muft be 
thinned, and kept clear from weeds* which is all the 
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