Datura

[Ar. tatorah.] ( Bot. ) A genus of plants, order Solanacea. The Thorn-apple, D. stramonium, is a well-known plant, about 3 feet high, growing among rubbish, in vast plains, and po e ing extraordinary narcotic properties. It is much employed in medicine as an anodyne and antispasmodic, its effects resembling condition of, or becoming, a daughter. Daugh'terly, a . Becoming a daughter; dutiful. Daule, in Ecuador, a considerable river, rising near San Miguel, in Lat. 35° S., Lon. 80°38′ E., and flowing S. to Guayaquil, where it joins the Guayaquil River. -A village about 32 m. N.N.W. of Guayaquil. Daumer, GEORG FRIED RICH, ( dow'mer ,) a German poet and philosophical writer, B. at Nuremberg, 1800. He studied under Hegel, and subsequently under Schelling, and became profe or at the gymnasium of Nuremberg from 1822 to 1830. After his resignation he devoted himself exclusively to literary labors. His works evince a striking boldne , especially in their rationalism, which is deeply tinctured with the doctrines of his above-named masters.