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one or two finaller (talks from the fide ; thefe grow erect, 
and have one or two heart-fhaped leaves clofely embrac¬ 
ing the (talk ; this and each branch is terminated by one 
large yellow flower. Thefe appear in May; and. the 
feeds ripen in July. The fcales of the calyx are about 
twenty-fix. The florets of the ray are (freaked with 
green lines, and are from twenty-two or twenty-four to 
thirty in number; in the di(k are about 178. Seeds of 
the ray nearly triangular, and (treaked with ten lines: 
thofe of the difk roundiih, hairy, and crowned with a 
down which is (lightly plumofe ; receptacle convex and 
hairy ; from the burlling of the anthers to the ripening 
of the feeds takes up the fpace of one month ; the 
(tern-leaves towards the bafe become narrower, and then 
again widen into ears clafping about the (tern, fo as to be 
in a manner appendicled. In the great fmooth variety, 
Doronicum radice fcorpii , they are obfcurely ferrate, three 
or four inches broad, and near a (pan in length ; whereas 
in the fmaller one they are fcarcely half the length and 
breadth. Native of France, Swifferland, Germany, Auf- 
tria, Carniola, Hungary, Savoy, and Piedmont. This is 
one of the plants which from the facility with which it 
propagates itfelf has lately efcaped from the gardens to 
increafe the Britifli Flora. Mr. Lightfoot remarked it in 
Scotland, but always near houfes ; and Dr. Stokes near 
Duplin houfe. 
This plant has been ftigmatifed as poifonous, feemingly 
without much reafon. I: had its name, pardalianches, 
(wapoaAi;, a leopard, and to (trangle,) from this 
fuppofed noxious quality. The famous Conrad Gefner 
however took two drachms of the root without injury. 
Others on the contrary would perfuade 11s that it is an 
antidote to poifon, but they are ltill farther from the truth. 
It is not ufed in the prefent practice. Dr. Stokes informs 
us that two drachms occafioned a fenfe of inflation in the 
(tomach, and of general weaknefs, but that thefe fyrnp- 
torns were of (hort duration. That it has been recom¬ 
mended in vertigo, epilepfy, and menftrual obftructions, 
but that thefe powers want the confirmation of a more 
accurate experiment. 
As the Auftrian plant, Doronicum Avjlralis, differs from 
the common one chiefly in having a more woody root 
that fpreads but little, it is no more than a variety. 
2. Doronicum plantagineum, or plantain-leaved leopard’s 
bane: leaves ovate, acute, fomewhat toothed; branches 
alternate. The leaves are indented on their edges towards 
their bale, but their upper parts are entire ; the (talks rife 
about two feet high ; each is terminated by a large yellow 
flower, like that of the preceding : they have two or three 
alternate embracing leaves, not fo hairy as thofe of the 
former fort; it flowers about the fame time; and grows 
naturally in Germany, France, Spain, and Portugal. 
Thefe were both cultivated in 1597 by Gerarde. 
3. Doronicum bellidiaftrum, er daify-leav'ed leopard’s 
bane : (tern naked, very fimple, one-flowered. This has 
a perennial root, as well as the two preceding : the leaves 
are like thofe of the common daify, but longer, and not 
fo broad ; the flower grows on a naked (talk near a foot 
long, and the root feldom fends out more than one ftalk ; 
the ray of the flower is white, very like that of the com¬ 
mon daify ; the di(k yellow. Found on the Swifs, Ty- 
rolefe, and Italian, alps; in Auftria, Carniola, Silefia; 
Bois de Batie near Geneva, April 22, 1779, m dower; 
Haller found it in the lower alps with a deep red flower. 
Cultivated by Mr. Miller, in 1759 ; he received it from 
Verona. 
Propagation and Culture. This plant multiplies very 
fad by its fpreading roots, and if the feeds are permitted 
to fcatter, they will produce plants wherever they happen 
to fall, fo that it becomes a weed where it is once efta- 
bliflied : it loves a moift foil and a (hady fituation. The 
third fort is propagated by parting the roots, for the feeds 
do not ripen well in England. It mud have a (hady 
fituation and a moift foil. The flowers do not make a 
much better appearance than thofe of the common daily. 
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only they (land on much taller (talks. See Arnica^ 
Rudbeckia, Senecio, Septas, and Tussilago. 
DORONIN'SK, a town of Ruffia, in Siberia, and go¬ 
vernment of Irkutfch, on the Ingoda: 190 miles eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Verch Udinftc, and 280 eaft-fouth-eaft of Ir¬ 
kutfch. 
DORON'K, a town of Egypt: two miles fouth of Siut. 
DOROSTAY', a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Volhynia : fixteen miles fouth-eaft of Lucko. 
DO'ROTHY, [AwpoSsa, Gr. i. c. the gift of God.] A 
proper name of women. 
DORP, f. \_DorJf. Dut.] A country town or village. 
DORP AU'BEIT, a town of Arabia, in the country 
of Yemen : forty-four miles north of Chamir. 
DOR'PAT, or Dorpt, a town of Ruflia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Riga; formerly the fee of a bi (hop, in the 
palatinate of Livonia. It was feized by the tzar Ivan 
Bafilovitz, in 1558, and afterwards ceded to Poland : the 
Swedes took it in 1625. But Peter the Great finally an¬ 
nexed to it Ruflia: 116 miles north-north-eaft of Riga, 
and 132 fouth-weft of Peterfburg. 
To DORR, v. a. [tor, ftupid, Teut.J To deafen or ftu- 
pify with noife. Skinner. 
DORR,y. [fo named probably from the noife which it 
makes.] The chafer, or common dorr-beetle. See the 
article Scarabjexjs. 
DOR'R A, a town of Perfia, in the province of Segef- 
tan : eighteen miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Kin. 
DOR'SAL, adj. [from the Lat. dorjum, the back.] Be¬ 
longing to the back, pertaining to thofe difeafes which 
are fuppofed to have their feat in the back. 
DOR'SANE (Antony), a French divine, born at If- 
foudun, in Lower Berry. He became doctor of the Sor- 
bonne, chanter of the church of Paris, and grand vicar 
and official of that diocefe, under the cardinal de Noail- 
les. He died in 1728, leaving behind him a work ex¬ 
tremely ufeful to ecclefiaftical hiftorians. It was pub- 
liflied under the name of A Journal, and prefents us with 
the hiftory, and the moft interefting circumftances which 
took place at Rome and in France, during the celebrated 
negociation refpedting the conftitution, or bull, Unigeui- 
tus, in 2 vols. 410. or in 6 vols. nmo. The beft edition 
is the fecond, which was publifhed in 1756. 
DORSCI-I (Ch.riftopher), fon of an engraver on gems, 
born at Nuremberg in 1.676. In his youth he was placed 
at the Latin fchool; acquired fome knowledge of geo¬ 
metry, attended the academy of painting, frequented pro- 
feffor Heifter’s leftures on anatomy at Altdorf, and gra¬ 
dually attained to great perfection in the art of engraving 
on (tones. As his father had been feveral years in a weak 
and infirm condition, he executed a great many pieces 
under his name, as he already begun to excel him in that 
art. His talents, however, did not long remain unknown, 
and his works foon began to be in great requeft. He cut 
not only coats of arms, which were finifhed with fo much 
neatnefs, that all the figures, though exceedingly fmall, 
could be plainly diftinguifhed, as well as the colours and 
metals exprelfed according to the ufual rules of heraldry; 
but alfo portraits, which he executed immediately from 
the life, without any previous drawing, and which bore a 
finking refemblance to the originals. Though his pieces 
were deeply cut, the figures on them, when held towards 
the light, appeared as if in relief. The heads of moft of 
the heathen deities and eminent men, hieroglyphics, amu¬ 
lets, and hiftories, given in both parts of Martin von 
Ebertnayer’s ThcJ'aurus Gemmarum, and of which J. J. 
Bayer of Altdorf, and E. Reufcli of Helmftadt, publifhed 
a defcription in 1720 and 1721, were cat by him on gems 
in fo mafterly a manner, that they were perfect-imitations 
of the antique models which he copied. In this manner 
he executed whole cabinets: Inch as, 1. all the Roman 
emperors from Julius Csfar to Charles VI. 2. the whole 
archducal houfe of Habfburg-Auftria ; 3. all the kings 
of France ; 4. all the popes to Benedict XIII. 5. all the 
doges of Venice ; 6. all the ducal and electoral houfe of 
Bavaria; 
