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places near Cambridge; near Thame park in Oxford, 
(hire; at Lillefhall abbey in Shropfhire; Eveffiam in 
Worceflerfliire. Gerarde remarked it in the way from 
Braintree to Hedingham, and from Dtinmow to London. 
Garanton park, and Hollinghall wood in Leicederfliire. 
Pleafly forges, in Nottinghamfliire ; and in Scotland. 
Propagation and Culture. This plant is propagated by 
fovving the feeds in March, upon a foil that has been well 
ploughed; about one peck of feed will fow an acre; 
for the plants fliould have room to grow, otherwife the 
heads will not be fo large, nor in fo great quantity. When 
the plants are come up, hoe them in the fame manner as 
is prailifed for turnips, cutting down all the weeds, and 
fingling out the plants to about fix or eight inches dif- 
tance ; and as the plants advance, and the weeds begin 
to grow again, hoe them a fecond time, cutting out the 
plants to a wider didanee, for they Ihould be, at laft, left 
at lead a foot afunder ; and you fliould be particularly 
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 Augufl ; at which time 
they fliould 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 lixty bundles or (laves upon an acre, 
which they fell for about one (hilling a (lave. Some 
people fow caraway and other feeds among their teafels, 
but this is not a good method, for the one fpoils the 
other; nor can you fo ealily clear them from weeds as 
when alone. This however is dill the common practice 
in Elfex, where the teafel is chiefly cultivated, on ac¬ 
count of the neighbouring manufactures of ordinary 
cloth and baize, in which it is ufed for raifing the nap. 
Old pafiure land, the foil of which is a (Irong clayey 
loam, is bed adopted to the culture of the teafel. The 
method of managing the land for their compound crop, 
has been already given under the article Carum or cara¬ 
way. We have only to add therefore, for the indruilion 
of the hoers, that the firfi appearance of teafel is much 
like that of a lettuce ; that the heads being ready about 
the middle of September the fecond year, are to be cut 
as foon as they begin to turn brown, with a dalk a foot 
long, and tied up in bundles or bunches, twenty-five in 
each ; twenty-four of thefe bunches are fixed on a fmall 
dick, and called a row, two hundred and forty of which 
make a load in bulk, equal to a ton of hay from the mea¬ 
dow. The work of cutting and bunching the teafel can 
only be done by thofe who are well acquainted with it. 
The crop mud be looked over, and the heads cut at fe- 
veral times as they ripen. ' The produce is flometimes a 
load on an acre, the average price of which is twelve 
pounds. But often there is not more than one-fourth of 
a load. See Scabiosa. 
DIP'S AS,/. [Lat. from h-^cca, to third. ] A ferpent, 
whofe bite produces the fenfation of unquenchable third. 
See the article Coluber, vol. iv. p. 806. 
Scorpion, and afp, and amphifbcena dire, 
Cerades horn’d, hydros, and elops drear, 
And dipfas. Milton. 
DIP'TERA,/. [from oi?, two, and wing.] In 
entomology, an order of infeils which have only two 
wings, and under each wing a dyle, or oblong body, ter¬ 
minated by a protuberance or head, and called a balancer'. 
See the article Entomology. > 
DIP'TERE,/ [of our, twice or double, and msf/ov, 
Gr. a wing.] A kind of temple or other edifice, among 
the ancients, encompafled with a double row of columns. 
The pfeudodipteron was the fame, except that indead of 
the double row of columns, it was only encompafled with 
a fingle row. 
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DIP'TERON,/ [In architeilure.] A building with 
a double wing or aide. Scott. 
DIP'TERYX, f. [iWhfvl, the fame with 
two-winged; the calyx of the flower having two wings.] 
In botany, a genus of the clafs diadelphia, order decan- 
dria, natural order papilionacese or legunrinofae. The 
generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, 
turbinate; two upper fegments wing-fhaped, oblong, 
concave, fpreading ; the third lower, fmall, entire, or 
three-toothed. Corolla: papilionaceous; (landard lon¬ 
ger, obovate, bent in at the tides, erect; wings two, ob¬ 
long, (horter than the (landard; keel (liorter, two-petal- 
led. Stamina: filaments eight to ten united into a cy¬ 
linder, cloven at top ; antherae fmall, roundifh. Pidil- 
lum : germ pedicelled, oblong; (tyle awl-fhaped, af- 
cending; ftigma acute. Pericarpium : legume large, 
ovate, comprefTed, thick, one-celled. Seed: fingle, 
ovate.— EJfcntial CharaElcr. Calyx, two upper fegments 
winged ; legume ovate, compreffed, one-feeded. 
Species. 1. Dipteryx odorata, or coumarouna : leaves 
alternate. This is a large tree, (ixty feet high, very much 
branched at the top ; the leaves are large, alternate, and 
pinnate ; the leaflets perfectly entire, two or three on 
each fide, affixed alternately on the midrib. The flowers 
are borne in racemes, which are axillary and terminal ; 
their colour is purple, daffied with violet. The almonds 
or fruits are fragrant, and are put by the Creoles into 
cheffs, in order to drive away infects, as well as for the 
fake of their fmell. It grows in the large forells of 
Guiana. 
2. Dipteryx oppofitifolia, or taralea : leaves oppofite. 
This, like the former, is a tall tree, and very branchy 
at the top. It grows in the woods of Cayenne. 
DIP'TOTE,/. [AirlJla, Gr.] In grammar, a noun 
confiding of two cafes only, 
DIP' i'YCH, f. [^iTTTuaa, of S'la.TTTVcrcrco, to fold up ; or 
of £ir, twice, and 7 rruacru, Gr. to fold; dipycha , I,at.] A 
regider or table, in which the Greek church inrolled the 
names of pious perfons; the dead on one fide, and the 
living on the other ; and out of which the names of fa¬ 
mous men, bifliops and martyrs, were often rehearfed at 
the altar_Tlie commemoration of faints was made out 
of the diptychs of the church, as appears by multitudes 
of places in St. Audin. Stilling fleet. 
DIPU'RENON, f. in furgery, a double headed probe. 
DIPY'RENOS,/. in botany, a plant which has two 
feeds or kernels. 
DI'PUS,/ the Jerboa, a genus of quadrupeds of the 
order of glires. The generic charaiters are, two cutting 
teeth in each jaw : two very ffiort fore-legs: two very 
long hind-legs, refembling thofe of cloven-footed water- 
fowl; and a very long tail, tufted at the end. There are 
feven fpecies now known, viz. 
1. Dipus jaculus, the dart, commonly called the Egyp¬ 
tian jerboa. This curious animal hath thin, ereit, and 
broad, ears; full dark eyes; long whilkers ; fore legs 
an incli long, five toes on each ; the inner, or thumb, 
fcarcely apparent; but that, as well as the red, furnilhed 
with a fliarp claw; hind legs two inches and a quarter 
long, thin, covered with fliort hair, and fomewhat refem¬ 
bling thofe of a bird ; three toes on each, covered above 
and below with hair, the middle toe the longed, on each 
a pretty long fliarp claw ; length, front nofe to tail, feven 
inches one quarter; tail ten-inches, terminated with a 
thick black tuft of hair, the tip white, the red of the 
tail covered with very ffiort coarfe hair; the upper part 
of the body compreffed (ideways ; the part about the 
rump and loins large ; the head, back, (ides, and thighs, 
covered with long hair, adi-coloured at tlie bottom, pale 
tawny at the ends; bread and belly whitilh ; acrofs the 
upper part of the thighs is an obfeure band; the hair 
long and foft. It inhabits Egypt, Barbary, Paledine, 
the deferts between Baflora and Aleppo, the fandy trails 
between the Don and Volga, the hills fouth of the Irtifli, 
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