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Willifel in Yorkfliire, between Doncafter and Bautrey; 
and by Mr. J. Sherard on Weftfield down, near Haftings. 
Tbefe plants liave the fame property with Dionaa viuf- 
cipula, of entrapping fmall infedts within their folded 
leaves. It was difcovered by Mr. Whately, a furgeon, 
in Auguft 1780. On infpedting fome of the contracted 
leaves, he obferved a fly in clofe imprifonment; and on 
centrically prefling other leaves, yet in their expanded 
form, with a pin, he obferved a fudden elaflic fpring of 
them, fo as to become inverted upwards, and as it were 
encircling the pin. The fame account occurs in a German 
author (Wroth, beytrog. p. 64.) in July 1779. An ant 
was placed on the middle of a leaf; the infedt endea¬ 
voured to efcape, but was held fall by the clammy juice 
at the points of the hairs ; in fome minutes the (hort 
hairs on the dilk of the leaf began to bend, then the long 
hairs, and laid themfelves upon the ant: after a while 
the leaf began to bend, and in fome hours the end of the 
leaf was fo bent inwards as to touch the bafe. The ant 
died in fifteen minutes. 
5. Drofera Capenfis, or Cape fundew : fcapes radicate ; 
leaves lanceolate, fcabrous underneath. Root putting 
out fpiral threads; flowers violet-coloured. Native of 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
6. Drofera Lufitanica, or Portuguefe fundew: fcapes 
radicate; leaves fubulate, convex underneath, flowers 
ten-ftamened. Ray will not allow it to be a Species of 
this genus. Alftroemer obferved that it had conflantly 
ten ftamens ; and therefore it would be an Oxa/is, if the 
flowers were in an umbel, and the peculiar property of 
the leaves, together with its one-celled capfule, did not 
detain it in this genus. Native of Portugal ; collected 
there by Tournefort. 
7. Drofera ciftiflora, or ciftus-flowered fundew : ftera 
Ample, leafy ; leaves lanceolate. Stems a foot high, pu- 
befcent. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
8. Drofera Indica, or Indian fundew : Item branched, 
leafy; leaves linear. Native of the Eaft-Indies : the 
Ceylonefe call it kandulaejfa, from kandula , a tear; the 
leaves being furrounded by drops, as in our European 
fpecies. The (lem is half a foot high, and very (lender. 
9. Drofera umbellata, or umbellated fundew : fcapes 
rooted; leaves ovate, flowers umbelled. Stem none ; 
leaves next the ground only on long petioles. Native of 
China. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants are not eafily 
prelerved in gardens. They mud be taken from their 
native bogs, with a fufficient quantity of bog-earth and 
water-mofs, and planted in pots, fet in pans, conflantly 
fupplied with water. They will fucceed better if de¬ 
fended from the fun, and well enveloped in mofs kept 
conflantly wet. 
DRO'SING, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 
Auftria: fix miles eaft of Zifterfdorf. 
DROSO'MELI,/. [of tyotros, dew, and honey.] 
Honey-dew, or manna. 
DROSS,/, [bpoj', Sax.] The recrement or defpu- 
mation of metals : 
Some fcumm’d the drofs that from the metal came. 
Some ftirr’d the molten ore with ladles great, 
And every one did fwink, and every one did (weat. Spenfer. 
Ruft ; incruftation upon metal.—An emperor, hid under 
a cruft of drofs, after cleanfing, has appeared with all his 
titles frefli and beautiful. Addifon. —Refufe; leavings; 
fweepings ; any thing remaining after the removal of the 
better part; dregs; feculence; corruption.—Such pre¬ 
cepts exceedingly difpofe us to piety and religion, by 
purifying our fouls from the drofs and filth of fenfual de¬ 
lights. Tillotfon. 
Fair proud, now tell me why (hould fair be proud, 
Sith all world’s glory is but drofs unclean ; 
And in the (hade of death itfelf (hall (lirond, 
However now thereof ye little ween t Spenfer, 
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DROS'SKN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and New Mark of Brandenburg: twelve 
miles fouth-eaft of Cuftrin, and fourteen eaft of Francfort 
on the Oder. 
DROS'SENFELD, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Franconia, and principality of Culmbach, on the 
Maine: fix miles fouth of Culmbach. 
DROS'SINESS, f. Foulnefs; feculence; ruft.—The 
furnace of affliction refines us from earthly droffnefs, and 
foftens us for the impreflion of God’s (lamp. Boyle. 
DROS'SY, adj. Full of fcorious or recrementitious 
parts : full of drofs.—So doth the fire the droffy gold re¬ 
fine. Davies. —For, by the fire, they emit not only many 
droffy and fcorious parts, but whatfoever they had re¬ 
ceived either from earth or loadltone. Brown, —Worth- 
lefs ; foul; feculent: 
Your intention hold, 
As fire thefe droffy rhymes to purify, 
Or as elixir to change them into gold. Donne. 
DROT, a river of France, which runs into the Ga¬ 
ronne at Gironde. 
DROT'CHELL, /. [corrupted perhaps from dretchel. 
To drdch, in Chaucer, is to idle, to delay. Droch, in Frifick, 
is delay.~] An idle wench ; a (luggard. In Scottifl) it is 
(fill ufed. 
DROT'NINGHOLM, a royal palace of Sweden, fitu- 
ated in an ifland about feven miles from Stockholm. 
DROTZ'DORF, a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of Neyfza: three miles fouth of Grotkaw. 
DRO'VA-DRUE, or Drou, a town of Africa, on the 
Grain Coaft : fixty miles north-weft of Cape Palmas. 
DROU'AIS (M.) a young painter of eminence in th6 
French fchool, who, even when a boy, difcovered uncom¬ 
mon enthufiafm for painting. He was placed under Da¬ 
vid, a moft diftinguifhed painter of the city of Paris. 
Drouais, in 1783, enlifted among the competitors for the 
academical prize, but cut his pidture to pieces when it 
only wanted the finifiiing ftroke, and (hewed to his matter 
fome remnants of it. “ What have you done!” cried 
David, “ you deprive yourfelf of the prize.” “ I am 
fuftkiently rewarded,” replied the pupil, “ by meeting 
with your approbation : next year I (hall endeavour to 
be dill more worthy of you.” He kept his word, for he 
obtained the prize of 1784, which was awarded to him 
by the academy; and had not the regulations of the aca¬ 
demy oppofed it, he would have been immediately ad¬ 
mitted of their body : but he was conduced in triumph 
to his matter, and thence to his mother. On David’s 
tour to Rome, Drouais accompanied him. Although he 
polfefled a yearly revenue of 20,000 livres, the ufual plea¬ 
sures of youth had no charms for him, whpfe idol wac 
Raphael. He would be at his ftudies from four in the 
morning till night. “ Painting, or nothing,” was the 
ufual reply which he made to David, who frequently re- 
monftrated with him on his too unremitted application. 
“ Firft, fame; then, amufement;” he would often add. 
David leaving him at Rome, Drouais (hortly afterward 
completed his Marius, a picture which aftonifhed all 
Paris: but while he was engaged in a fubjedt, the exe¬ 
cution of which promifed the greateft honour to him, his, 
conftitution began to decline. His glowing zeal for his 
profelfion had dried up the vital juices of his frame, and 
he died of a putrid fever at the age of twenty-five. 
DROU'E, a town of France, in the department of the 
Loire and Cher, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tridt of Montdoubleau : nine miles north-eaft of Mont- 
doubleau. 
DROVE,/. A body or number of cattle: generally 
ufed of oxen or black cattle.—They brought to their 
Rations many droves of cattle; and within a few days were 
brought out of the country two thoufand muttons. Hay. 
ward. —A number of flieep driven. To an herd of oxen 
we regularly oppofe, not a drove, but ex flock, of (keep.-— 
