. Meatn. 
DAL 
fim Peric. Legume enclofed in the calyx, of one cell, 
Seed folitary, eek fhaped. 
asand keel a to the ftamens, which 
are mouadelphicd Legume 
inneus, aie having eftablithed this genus in his earlier 
works, referred it fubfequently to Pfaralea, but Jufficu and 
Willdenow ha y reftored it he monadelpho 
the wings and keel , afford a fuflicient cha- 
u core all the fpecies were pentandrous; 
but ‘Willdenow finds only five that arc fo, nine being decan- 
1 fourteen. His Daka ae Linn. 
. (Pforalea Dalea, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1076), : a rare 
haA 
Soar. eae {peeies. Several are found in Nort me 
f, ¢ 
- 
rica, of whic Michaux has made his genus Petaloflemium 3 
others in Mexico, figured in Cavanilies’ cones. The leaves 
t, and glandular be- 
of all are aman with a terminal leafle 
h. Flowers for the moft part of a dull blueifh hue, in 
denfe hairy foi a abit more or lefs fhrubby. 
DALECARLIA, Davanp‘ or ee in Latin 
Dalia, ‘and i in Swedith Dal or Dalarna, ia Geography, a pro- 
ce of Sweden‘in the weftern part of Got land, between the 
Wener lake and a iaibaren of Gothenburg, derives 
its name from the great number of vallies which it con- 
tains. It is ten Suredith miles long, and five and a hal 
broad. 
This country is richly diverfified with an alternate fuce 
ceffion of forefs, rocks,- hills and dales, uplands and plains, 
paftures and ara es ivers ; the beauty 
o: the lan particularly heightened by the river 
. Sillian, its principal lake, is feven Swedifh miles in 
length, b ve a quarter of a mile in bread 
Dalecarlia is fubdivided into the north and fouth part. 
d mountainous; its chief place is 
fimal, and its hig heft mountain the Borekne. The fouth 
part isa cine country, and has no town but Dalaborg. 
‘Towards the fouth it produces corn; but its chief articles 
are cattle, fith, butter, and cheefe. It has a number of 
mines. 
The inhabitants, who are called Dalecarlians, are famous 
firft fupported Guitavus Vafa, and e 
thofe efforts which ended in the al ion of *Chriftian the 
Second, and tn the eftablifhment of the houfe of Vafa on 
dan nee 
e Dalecalian were fo re- 
ce se their coun- 
ner of fag, 
cee and cuftoms, of the 
Dalecarlia may be plea. die claffical ground of Sweden, 
being full of memorials which indicate the veneration of the 
natives for the memory of Guftavus Vafa. 
The four principal villages of Dalecarlia are Leckfand, 
Mora, Raitwik and Tuna. Each of. thefe four ie ai 
has from 7 to 11,0ca inhabitants, and the vicarage of a 
of thefe, particularly of Leck fang, 3 is more defirable me 
many a Swedifh bifhopric in point of revenue 
athe midf of the valley irrigat = by the ‘Dal, is a rock 
called Buller Klac, fcarcely forty fee t high, from the fum 
mit of which t e uaked le difcovers 35 villages, canced 
with an immenfe popula 
The ee of the eee pray fomewhat from 
. the Swedifh, and it has been affert it isa kin to the 
Icelandic. Profeffor Enbergius ne ss "Dalica et Iflandica 
DAE 
per omnia adeo font fimiles, nt, quanda Iflandica accenty 
Dalico legitur, omnes Dalecarlicam effe judicent ; 4 hy od 
experimento certior factus.”? Ihre maintains that it was 
proved at Unfal in 1692, when divine fervice was read to 
the Dalecarlians affemb!: as there, in the icckandic language. 
Some learned Engh fimen are of opinion, that the Dale. 
carhan language is a dialect of the Ceti, like the language 
of Lower Britanny, Wales, and Ire:and; and bifhop Ru- 
den affures us, that a Swedifh ambaflador brought with him 
to England a Dalecarl:an boy, who could converfe with the 
Highlancers. There is indeed fome fimilarity between the 
Dalecar'ian and the Scotch High! and dialect. Ca ieee 
d’un Frangois en Suede par de la Tocnaye, 1801. Coxe 
Travels, vol, v. 
breaking out of the war, which has lately been 
en, the D 
pree oe the enemy’s country without meeting with any 
*’ DA LECHAMP, James, in Biography, a a 
reach phyfician and indefatigable botanift, was born 
in 1513, ftudied medicine and botany at Montpelier, 
was admitted doGor i dicine i 4, and died at 
yous, where he had long pract:ifed phyfic, in 1588. 
15 books of Athenzus 
illuftrated notes ures; and fome of the —_ . 
of Galen and Paul Egineta into French. In 1556 he 
lifhed a talon of “Ccelius Aurelianus de Morbis a acli- 
tis ;”? and in 1569, ‘Chirurgie Francoife, avec plufieurs 
figures Winftraesens,” Svo., which has been feveral times 
reprinted. He principally fo.lowed the practice of Parée, 
from whofe work he borrowed the figures of the imftru- 
ments; but he has added a tranflation into French of the 
feventh book of Parzus, with a fome cu- 
rious a occurring ig his own pra was alfo 
aa edito of an edition of Pliny with es Suehed in. 
1587 s firft work, according to vo 
edition of "Ruelliu s’s Commentary on Diofcorides, which 
appeared at Lyons in 155 
30 {mall figures of plants, at that time but Iittie known. 
His principal performance n univerfal hiltory of 
plants, in Latin, with two thoufand five hundred 
1 
wi , . 
wooden cute, hefde es a aeea publifhed after his death: 
n 2’ folio volumes. lifker, William Rouillé, feems 
- take upon himfelf ie chief credit of collecting 
ranging the materials of this great work, thou; a 
lows that Dalechamp laid its firtt foundations. Haller fay 6, 
the latter was engage r 30 years; his aim bein 
colle& together all the botanical knowledge of his predecef- 
fors, and enrich it with his own difcoveries. 
John Bauhin, thea a young m 
to 2Mifl him; but Bavhin being obliged, on account of his 
sa eer to leave France for Switzerland, like many other 
good and great men of that and the following century, ea 
work in queftion was undertaken by Des Moulins, and foo 
ie Dalechamp died. It is often quoted by the 
tle of “ Hiftoria Lugdunenfis,’’ and hence the merits of its 
oped projector are overlooked, as well as the faults aril. 
me fig 
t plants, an oe 
e-let- 
ace 
occafionally repeated for oO different 
too common in books with wooden cuts; 
