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flic feeds through this land, and that he made great ufe 
of it in chirurgerie, as well in burnings and fealdings, as 
n 1 fb in virulent and maligne ulcers, apoftemes, and.luch^ 
like.” An ointment prepared from the leaves gives 
cafe in external inflammations and haemorrhoids. The 
Edinburgh college direCt an extract from them ; which 
has been given with great advantage in convulfions and 
epileptics ; the dofe from two to fixteen grains a day. 
Thefe and the feeds given internally bring on delirium, 
tremors, fwelling, itchin'g, eruption, and-inflammation, 
on the fkin. This plant is known by a variety of names, 
fuch as Jameftown-weed, gymfin,' ftink-weed, French- 
chefnut. Its aCtive and poifonous properties are now 
pretty generally known ; children have often been in¬ 
jured by eating the feeds. The tube of the flower con¬ 
tains a confiderable quantity of honey; this honey is 
bitter, and has much of the poifonous fmell. Bees quaff' 
it. But admitting that it is cf a poifonous nature, it 
does not follow that our bees will colled!- fo much of 
this honey as to prove injurious to thofe who eat of it. 
But, in particular places, where this plant has been per¬ 
mitted to increafe to a great degree, large quantities of 
honey may be collected from it: and the ufe of this ho¬ 
ney may prove injurious. See Dr. B. S. Barton on the 
Poifonous Honey of North America, in the American 
Tranf. vol. v. and the late Dr. Samuel Cooper’s Inau¬ 
gural Diflertation on the Properties and Effedts of the 
Datura Stramonium, p. 33. Philadelphia, 1797. 
3. Datura tatula, or blue thorn-apple: pericarps 
thorny, eredf, ovate ; leaves cordate, fmooth, toothed. 
This refembles the common fort, but is twice the ffze. 
Stent, purplifh, with white dots, divided at an acute an¬ 
gle, fmooth and even ; corollas pale blue; leaves more 
finely toothed, and, if they be flatted, cordate. Culti¬ 
vated 16S6, by Mr. Ray, in his garden at Cambridge. 
4. Datura faftuofa, or purple thorn-apple : pericarps 
tubercled, nodding, globular; leaves ovate, angular. 
This rifes with a fine polilhed purple (talk four feet high, 
dividing into feveral branches. The flowers are of a 
beautiful purple on their outflde, and a fatiny white 
within ; fome of them are Angle, others have two or 
three flowers handing one within another, and fome are 
double, having four or five petals within each other, of 
dqual length, fo as to appear a full flower at the brim ; 
they have an agreeable odour at firff, but if long fmelt 
to, become lefs agreeable, and are narcotic. The feed- 
veffel is thick and flefhy, as are alfo the partitions cf the 
cells : the outlide is covered with blunt protuberances; 
and the feeds are of a bright brown colour when ripe. 
■ Native of the Eaft Indies and of Egypt. 
5. Datura metel, or hairy thorn-apple: pericarps 
thorny, nodding, globular ; leaves cordate, almoft entire, 
pubefeent. This has a ftrong ftem, three feet high, di¬ 
viding into many woolly branches. Native of Afia, 
Africa, and the Canary iflands. 
6. Datura arborea, or tree thorn-apple : pericarps 
fmooth, unarmed, nodding ; ftem arboreous. This rifes 
with a woody ffalk to the height of twelve or fourteen 
feet, dividing into feveral branches. Native of South 
America ; and one of the greateft ornaments to the gar¬ 
dens in Chili, where the inhabitants propagate it with 
great care. When the flowers are fully blown, they 
make a fine appearance, and a fingle tree will perfume 
the air of a large garden. Introduced 1783, by Monf. 
Thouin. It had,however been cultivated before, both 
in the Chelfea garden, and by lord Petre, from feeds lent 
over by Dr. Houftoun. 
7. Datura lsevis, or fmooth-capfuled thorn-apple : 
pericarps fmooth, unarmed, ereCt ; leaves fmooth ; ftem 
hftular, herbaceous. Native of Africa ; introduced in 
1780, by Monf. Thouin; flowers from July to September. 
8. Datura innoxia, or harmlefs thorn-apple : pericarps 
ovate, nodding, fet with harmlefs fpines ; leaves cordate, 
pubefeent,. This rifes witli a purplifh ftem, three or four 
/feet high, dividing into feveral ftrong branches, Stems, 
Vol, V, No. 299. 
D A u (m 
branches, and leaves, covered with foft hairs. The 
flowers come out at the divifions of the ftalk and branches, 
ftanding erect ; they are large, white, and are fucceeded 
'by oval fruit, covered with long, foft, innocuous, (pines, 
and opening within in four cells, full of brown feeds. 
It grows naturally at Vera Cruz, whence Miller received 
the feeds. / 
Propagation and Culture. Mofl of the fpecies, coming 
from hot countries, require the protection of a (love or 
glafs-cafe. The fecond and third only are hardy, and, 
if permitted to feed, will furnifh a fupply of plants for 
feveral years to come; for the feeds will be long in the 
ground, and when tut'ned up to the air will vegetate. 
Thefirft, fourth, and fifth, may be raifed, by fowingthe 
feeds upon a gentle hot-bed in the fpring, and afterw ards 
treating the plants in the fame manner as the marvel of 
Peru and other hardier kinds of annuals; tranfplantiijg 
them into the full ground the latter end of May. They 
will flower in July; and if fome of the plants be placed 
in a glafs-cafe, they will produce ripe feeds in autumn. 
The fixth and feventh require to be kept in a ftove, being 
more tender than the reft. The eighth, in a favourable 
feafon, will rife in the fpring from lcattered feeds ; and, 
if the fummer prove warm, it will flower, and even per¬ 
fect its feeds. 
DAU GLED'HEU, or Two Swoaos, a river of 
South Wales, which runs into the river Clethy, near 
Milford Haven. 
DA'VA, or Uspo, a province of Japan. 
DAVANZA'TI (Bernard,)a Florentine, bornin 1529, 
and died in 1606. As a writer he is principally known 
for his tranflation of Tacitus, which obtained great re¬ 
putation. Davanzati alfo publifhed an elegant work, 
On Tufcan Agriculture, and a Hiftory of the Englifh 
Schifm ; which laft is faid to be an abridged tranflation 
of that of the Jefuit Sanders. His Notitia de' Camli, or 
Account of Exchanges, is one of the earlieft pieces on 
that fubject. 
To DAUB, v.a. \_dabben, Dut. dauber , Fr.J To fmear 
with fomething adhefive.—She took for him an ark of 
bulrufhes, and daubed it with dime and with pitch. Ex. 
odus. —To paint coarfely.—If a picture is daubed with 
many bright and glaring colours, the vulgar admire it as 
an excellent piece. Watts. —To cover with fomething fpe- 
cious orgrofs, fomething that difguifes what it lies upon : 
So fmooth he daub'd Ills vice with fliew of virtue, 
He liv'd from all attainder of fufpect. Shake/pearc. 
To lay on any thing gaudily or oftentatioufly.—Since 
princes will have fuch things, it is better they fhould be 
graced with elegance, than daubed with coft. Bacon. 
Let him be daub'd with lace, live high, and whore ; 
Sometimes be loufy, but be never poor. Drydeit. 
To flatter grofsly.—Let every one, therefore, attend the 
fentence of his confluence ; for, he may be hire it will 
not daub nor flatter. South. 
To DAUB, v. n. To play the hypocrite : this fenje is 
not in vfe: 
J[ cannot daub it further ; 
And yet I muff. Shakefpcare. 
DAU'BA, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Bole- 
flaw : fixteen miles weft-north-weft of Jung Buntzel. 
DAU'BENSEE, a lake of Germany, in the circle of 
Bavaria : ten miles fouth of Traunftein. 
DAU'BENSEE, a lake of- .SwifTerland, on mount 
Gemmi. 
DAU'BENTON (M.) an eminent naturalift and ana- 
tomift, born in 1716, at Montbard in Burgundy. When 
his townfman, the illuftrious De Button, was made fu- 
per.intendant of the royal garden, he perfuaded Dauben- 
ton to fettle near him, and to become his coadjutor in 
the ftudy of natural hiftory. This took place in 1740, 
when he was made keeper of the king’s mufeum, and he 
thenceforth devoted himfelf, with unremitting affiduity, 
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