DAL 
cap. 33. one laft of hides or fkins is twelve dozen. 
Dicker. 
we 
See 
AL, or Dant, Dal elbe, Dal elfwe, Dal alf, (the ri- 
ver of ibe sally ), in rei the largeft an 
s which feparate Sweden 
and that which runs Tok the weftern part Welter Dal 
Eifwe. 
After a courfe of about 260 miles, the Dal falls into the 
Gulph of Bothnia, near Elfkarleby, about ten miles to the 
eaft of Gefle. ws in a broad and t:anguil sii ee 
it reaches a ridge ef rocks, and a high ifland a quart 
mile in circumference, where the whole river forms a catar a 
{carcely inferior to that of the Rhine at Schafliaufen. 
L, the ablative cafe of ‘the Teclien sate dn as o Z or 
rs fig. Pag ello, by bal Paefiello; Dall’ Inferno di Dante, 
nte’s 
LA. in pee a river of Switzerland, which 
from ‘the canton of Berne flows into the republic of the Val- 
lais, pafling by the baths of Leuk, and running afterwards 
through an aby{s fo deep and fo obfcure, that, notwithftand- 
ftanding the violence and noife of its current, the river is nei- 
ther eae nor hear oxe’s Switzerla 
nd. 
Syffel, o + Dale Syffel, ery called oe 
de ae from ie e bay of Brey ur, is, according 
to ee hing, the Soa delightful, or rather the only tas 
fant, tract of co has Iceland. The m ains run in two 
parllel lines, ee the valleys between are "watered by a num- 
ber of little brooks and rivulet 
RG, or Davznouna, a {mall and formerly 
fortified town of Sweden, in the fouthern part of the pro- 
vince of Dalecarlia, on the weft fide of the lake Wener, 50 
tiles N. of Gothenbur 
DALAI. See Couton. 
DALATIS, in oS Cererepl » a country of Alia 
in Cilicia, mentioned by 
DALBERGIA, in Botan, “Coamed by Linnzus in ho- 
nour of two brothers of the n f Dalberg, to whom he 
was indebted for many Surinam iat ) Linn. Suppl. 53. 
Schreb. 483. Willd. oe se .9o0o, Jufl. 362. (Eca 
ftaphyllum, Browne es ge: t. 1.) afs and or- 
der, a dean “id. “Rot. Ord Pai, Linn. 
i 
Oy, of one leaf, bell-fhaped, with five bluntith 
teet =‘ ia apilionaceous; ftandard large, afcending, 
ovate inclining to heart- fapely: notched, with a linear 
wy wings oblong, ftraight, obtufe, with a recurved tooth 
flraight, obtufe, cloven at the bafe. 
each in four or five fegments, in fome inftances accompanied 
by a third {mall fimple filament ; ry eight or nine, 
{earcely more, globofe, two-lobed. » Germen ftalked, 
comprefled, aoe ftraight, {mooth; ie afcending or 
reflexed, deciduous; ftigma capitate. eric. Legume 
ftalked, thin, flat, cartilaginous, ovate or oblong, clofe, 
not b burfting g, containing one or more feeds. Seeds compredf- 
Ted, fomewhat kidney-fhape 
Ba. tamens s two qual hi Legume ftalked, 
eenaccout. compreffe t bur 
Two {pecies oats of foe genus - » deferibed. 
D, lance- 
DA L 
olaria, Linn. Suppl. 316. Osan Rheede Hort. Mal. 
v. 6. 39. t. 22.) A native of Malab and Ceylon, seis 
whence Konig ient it to Linneus. is a tree with long, 
wand-like branches, clothed with foft whitifh hairs VES 
numerous, alternate, Gipua. 
owers in axillar 
oa bunc Le 
lon "gs are one feed, rarely two, imbedded in its middie 
par 
Dem monetaria, Linn. Suppl. 317. is found in wet fitua- 
tions in Surinam, The leaves are oe 
cular, deciduous, harder than in the forme 
this tree or fhrub is red, and yields a eae refembling what 
is called Dragon’s-bloo 
LBY, in Geograph , a {mall town of Sweden, in the 
province of Schonen, or Scania, where Suen king o en- 
mark built, in the year 10 5s a convent, in which two kings 
are buried: but in 1512 this convent was-fequeftered to 
the crown by Chriftian III. of Denmark, to whom Scania 
was then fubje 
DALDA, in 1 Ancient Geography, an epifcopal town of 
—— Minor, in Lyd 
ALE, Samu ,M. D.; in Biography, but who ap- 
led himfelf more . ae ftudy, of botany than to the prac- 
tice of medicine, was born in the year 1659. 
fettled as an apothecary, at Braintree, in Aiffex ; 
1730 he became a licentiate of the college of phyficians, in 
ing, w 
which happened in 1739. 
the royal fociety, In 1693 he ies ‘¢ Pharmacologia 
eu manuductio ad materiem — 
ee paffed through many e 
enough to pu blifh an edition of his wo 
much ae and improved, which has alfo been fr equity 
reprinted. In i he has difpofed of the plants in the m 
ner adopted b In the firft part of the work the au- 
thor defcribes | gives an account of the sia role and 
manner of ufing the plants moft efteemed in medic Tn 
the latter part, in a fupplement, plants lefs known aid a 
with fome that had been very lately difcovered in Am 
and other foreign countries, are defcribed. He alfo netic 
in 1732, in 4to, “Silas Taylor’s Hiftory and Antiquities of 
ys 
of the figured foifils of the cliff, 
of a — and vegetables of the neighbouring fea an 
co . Bi 
on E, in 1 Geo eogr raphy, a a river of Ireland, flowing from a 
{mall ee of the fam county of Donegal, 
which runs into the Foyle, a a tice below Lifford. This ri- 
ver is navigable for boats from the Foyle to the village of 
Ballindraite 
ALFA, i in Botany, (after Samuel Dale, a botanift of 
the time of Ray, author of the oe) Linn. 
Hort. Chiff. 363. Juff. 355. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. 1336 
(Pforalea, Linn. Gen. 386. ° Schreb. 508.) "Chats and 
order, diadelphia decandria, fe. 1. Nat. Ord. Papiliona- 
cee, Linn. Leguminofe, Ju 
. Cal. of one leaf, dotted with a glands, 
fee fegments awl-fhaped, ae ae aptlios 
andard roundifh, ere otched; oes {mall, 
obtufe, united to the f nee on is alfo the keel, which 
m. Filaments five or ten 
united into one fet; anthers oni Pift. Germen ob: 
long; ftyle awi- fhaped, as long as the ftamens; bil 
T 2 Mpiees 
