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D R O 
D R O 
So thick a drop ferene hath quench’d their orbs, 
Or dim fuffufion veil’d. Milton. 
DRO'PACISM, or Drotax,/! [from ^ettw, to re¬ 
move.] A medicine to deflroy or remove hair; the ap¬ 
plication of the fame. 
DRO'PACIST,/. [from dropax.'] O le that ufes the 
dropsx, or dropacifm. 
DRO'PALACH, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carinthia: twelve miles fouth of Saxenburg. 
DRO'PAX,/ See Dropacism. 
DROP'LET, f A little drop : 
Thou abhorr’dft in us our human griefs, 
Scorn’d our brine’s flow, and thofe our droplets, which 
From niggard nature fall. Skakcfpeare. 
DROP'PING,/! That which falls in drops: 
Thrifty wench ferapes kitchen-duff, 
And barrelling the droppings and the fnuff 
Of wafting candles. Donne. 
That which drops when the continuous dream ceafes : 
Strain out the lad dull- droppings of your fenfe, 
And rhyme with all the rage of impotence. Pope. 
DROPS, f. in architecture, an ornament representing 
drops or little bells. 
DROP'STONE, f. Spar formed into the diape of 
drops. Vdoodward. 
DROP'SICAL, adj. Difeafed with adropfy; hydro- 
pica!; tending to a dropfy.—The diet of nephritic and 
dropfical perfons ought to be fucli as is oppodte to, and 
fubdueth, the alkalefcent nature of the falts in theferum 
of the blood. Arbuthnot. 
DROP'SIED, adj. Difeafed with a dropfy : 
Where great addition fwells, and virtue none, 
It is a dropfied honour: good alone 
Is good. Shakefpeare. 
DROP'SY,/ - . [ hydrops , Lat. whence anciently hidropify, 
thence dropify, dropfy.'] A collection of water in the body, 
from too lax a tone of the folids, whereby digeflion is 
weakened, and all the parts fluffed. For the medical 
treatment of this diforder, fee the article Medicine. 
RROP'WORT, J . in botany. See Spiraea and Oe- 
N AN THE. 
DROS'CHOLM, a town of Denmark, in the ifland of 
Zealand: twelve miles fouth-fouth-wed of Nyekiobing, 
and forty wed of Copenhagen. 
DRO'SENDORF, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auflria, on the river Taya : fifteen miles wed 
of Znaym, and forty-fix north-wed of Vienna. Lat. 48. 
45. N. Ion. 33. 24. E. Ferro. 
DRO'SERA, /. ttyunfoti dewy, from tyotrof, dew; 
drops hanging on the leaves,' like dew.] Sundew; in 
botany, a genus of theclafs pentandria, order pentagynia, 
natural order gruinaies, (capparides, Jiff.) The generic 
characters are—Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, flve- 
cleft, fliarp, upright, permanent. Corolla : funnel-form ; 
petals flve, fomewhat ovate, obtufe, rather larger than 
the calyx, and alternate with it. Stamina: filaments 
five, fubulate, length of the calyx, and alternate with 
the petals; anthene fmall, growing to the filaments. 
Pidillum : germ fuperior, roundifli ; dyles five, Ample, 
length of the flamens ; Aigmas Ample. Pericarpium : 
capfule furrotinded with the calyx, fomewhat ovate, 
one-celled, three, four, or flve-valved at the tip. Seeds : 
very many, very fmall, fomewhat ovate, fcabrous, Axed 
to a brandling loofe receptacle in the centre at bottom. 
.—EJfenlial Ckara&er. Calyx, flve-cleft; petals, five ; 
capfule, one-celled, five (or three) valved at the tip; 
feeds, very many. 
Species. 1. Drofera acaulis, or demlefs fundew : flower 
radical, without any fcape, folitary ; leaves oblong. 2. 
Drofera cuneifolia, or wedge-leaved fundew : fcapes ra¬ 
dicate, leaves wedge-form-rounded. Thefe are herbs of 
a fmall fize, and fingular druCture. The leaves, in mod 
of the fpecies, only next the root, furniflied with glan- 
dulous hairs on the upper furface, and fringed with them 
round the edge : thefe hairs have each a fmall globule of 
a pellucid liquor like dew, continuing even in tiie hotted 
part of the day, and in the fulled expofure to the fun. 
Hence their Englidi name of fundew. The two flrfl {'pe¬ 
des are natives of the Cape of Good Hope, where they 
were firfl obferved by Thunberg. 
3. Drofera rotundifolia, or round-leaved fundew : fcapes 
radicate; leaves orbiculate, dyles dx. Root perennial, 
black ; flowers from dx to eleven in number, white ; they 
are open from nine to twelve ; the young leaves, before 
they are expanded, are rolled inwards, and at the fame time 
bent in to the very peduncle. Drofera and Utricularia 
are the only two plants which are common to Sweden 
and the Eafl Indies, and they are both water plants : 
Linnteus remarks that Drofera is a native of all the four 
continents, on bogs. The Ead Indian plant, however, 
is probably ditferent from the European, and Vahl has 
feparated it under the name of Drofera Burmanhi. It is 
diflindl: from the preceding fpecies D. cuneifolia, in the 
fmoothnefs of the fcape and pedicels, and in being only 
one third of the flze. With us,.D. rotundifolia flowers 
in July and Augufl ; and is found on Hampdead heath; 
at Battle’s well near Harefleld, and Iver heath ; on Hin¬ 
ton and Teverdiam moors, and Gamlingay bogs in Cam¬ 
bridge fli ire; on Malvern chace ; Birmingham heath; 
Selborne^in Hampfliire ; Ludgvan Lee, on the Barton 
and Moors; and Senan, in Torvorian Commons, Corn¬ 
wall ; Halflon in Northamptonfiiire ; near Mansfield and 
Oxton in Nottinghamfliire ; and in Scotland frequent. 
The whole plant is acrid, andfufficientiy cauflic to erode 
the lkin ; foine ladies, however, know how to mix the 
juice with milk, fo as to make it an innocent and fafe ap¬ 
plication to remove freckles and fun-burn. The juice 
that exfudes from it unmixed will deflroy warts and 
corns. The plant has the fame ededt upon milk as the 
pinguicula vulgaris ; and like that, too, is- fuppofed to 
occaflon the rot in IlVeep. Is not the four coagulated 
milk of the Syrians, called leban or leven, at flrd prepared 
with fome plant of this kind > It is called in Englidi 
fundew, youlh-woort ; in the north parts red-rot, and in York- 
fliire mooregrajfe-, in German, Jonncnthau, findaw, lofflein- 
kraut-, in Dutch, zonnedaanw, or loopigkruid ; in Danifh, 
foeldug or himrfieldug ; in Swedifli, Mariaflefiar ; in Smo- 
land, daggort-, in Italian, rugiada delJ'olc ; in Spanifh, 
rociada or rocio del foil, in Portuguefe, rojjolina ; in Rtf. 
dan, folneznaja trawa. 
4. Drofera longifolia, or long-leaved fundew : fcapes 
radicate ; leaves ovate-oblong. Linnaeus is of opinion 
that this "is fcarcely fpecifically diftindl from the fore¬ 
going, flnee they agree in every thing except the form of 
the leaves. Scopoli does not hedtate to join this and 
the round-leaved fundew together, and affirms that he 
has many fpecimens diewing a gradual change from the 
one to the other. Haller will not allow that they ever 
change one to the other. This feems not to be fo 
common as the round-leaved fort; Mr. Woodward, how¬ 
ever, informs us that it is frequent in Norfolk ; and Mr. 
Lightfoor, that it is fo alfo in Scotland; on Brigdear 
mofs, near Kendal, it grows to twice or thrice the lize it 
does about London ; it is alfo found on Hinton moor near 
.Cambridge ; on Bagdiot heath in Surrey ; and at Selborne 
in Hants. 
( 3 . D. Anglica, or great fundew, which Mr. Hudfon 
makes a diflindt fpecies, becaufe it is larger, has eight 
dyles, and four-valved capfules : is common, as he in¬ 
forms us, in the northern counties ; alfo in Devonffiire, 
Hampfliire, and Norfolk ; three miles from Carlifle to¬ 
wards Scotland, where Mr. Dickfon found it near Fort 
Auguftus; near Ellefniere in Shropfliire, and in Ireland. 
The variety deferibed by Ray, was found by Thomas 
a Willifel 
