566 DAL 
2. Dais odtandra, or eight-parted dais : flowers four- 
cleft, eight-fbunened. Native of India. 
.3. Dais difperma, or two-feeded dais : flowers eight and 
ten-ftamened ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate," nerve- 
lefs. Native of Tongataboo ; difcovered by Forfter. 
DAI'SY, f. [baegefeage, day’s eye, Chaucer .] A 
fpring flower. See Bellis, Chrysanthemum, and 
Globularia. —As he palled, the woods put forth their 
blolfoms, the earth her primrofes and days-eyes , to behold 
him. Howell. 
When daifies pied, and violets blue. 
And lady fmocks all over white, 
And cuckoo buds of yellow hue, 
Do paint the meadows much bedight. Shakefpcare. 
DA'KIR,yi See Dicker. 
DA'LA, a river of Swifferland, which runs into the 
Rhone, not far from Leuk, in the Valais. 
DA'LABORG, or Daleborg, a town of Sweden, 
and capital of the province of Dalia, fituated on the weft 
fide of Lake Venner : thirty miles north-eaft of Udvalla. 
DALAC'CA. See Dahhlak. 
DA'LAI. See Coulon. 
DALBER'GIA, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs 
diadelphia, order decandria, natural order papilionacere 
or leguminofas. The generic characters are—Calyx : pe¬ 
rianthium one-leafed, bell-flraped, five-toothed ; teeth 
bluntifh. Corolla: papilionaceous; ftandard large, af- 
cending, cordate-ovate, emarginate-retufe, with a linear 
claw ; wings oblong, ftraight, obtufe, with a reverfed 
tooth above ; keel fcarcely ftiorter than the wings, two- 
parted at the bafe, ftraight, obtufe. Stamina : filaments 
ten, united in two equal lateral bodies, free at top, afeend- 
ing ; antherae roundifti. Piftillum : germ oblong, com. 
prefled, pedicelled ; ftyle fubulate, afeending or reflex; 
ftigmaiimple. Pericarpium: legume oblong, comprefled, 
flat, pedicelled, not gaping, one-celled. Seed: Angle 
or few, remote, kidney-form, comprefled.— EJfential Cha¬ 
racter. Filaments two, four-cleft at the top; fruit pedi¬ 
celled, not opening, leguminofe, membranaceous, com- 
p re lied. 
Species. 1. Dalbergia lanceolaria, or fpear-fruited dal- 
bergia: leaves pinnate; leaflets elliptic, hairy under¬ 
neath ; fruits lanceolate. This is a tree, with wand-like 
pendulous hairy branches. Leaves alternate, unequally 
pinnate ; flowers ferruginous. The fruit is a membrane, 
exactly the figure of a little lance, attenuated at the bafe, 
not opening, not divifible into two (kins by a knife, the 
lengtli of a finger or lefs: in the middle of this mem¬ 
brane a Angle comprefled oval feed is immerfed ; if there 
are two feeds, they are placed at a diftance from each 
other longitudinally. Native of Malabar and Ceylon, 
and obfdrved there by Koenig. 
2. Dalbergia monetaria, or coin dalbergia : leaves ter- 
nate ; leaflets fmooth, ovate ; fruits oval, veinlefs. This 
is a fhrub, with flowers extremely minute, and white. 
The fruit is of an oval form, like a piece of .coin, com¬ 
prefled, cartilaginous within, one-celled, deciduous, not 
opening. Seed (ingle, comprefled, kidney-form. The 
root-when cut yields a purple juice. The wood is red. 
It yields a refin that refembles dragon’s-blood. Native 
of Surinam, in wet places. 
DAL'BY, a town of Sweden, in the province of Scho- 
nen : four miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Lund. 
DALE,yi [ dalei , Goth, dal , Dutch and Germ.] A 
low place between hills ; a vale ; a valley: 
Long toft with ftorms, and beat with bitter winds, 
High over hills, and low adown the dale, 
She wand’red many a wood, and meafur’d many a vale. 
Spenjcr. 
Before the downfall of the fairy date, 
This dale , a pleafmg region, not unbleft, 
This dale poflefs’d they, and had ftill poflefs’d. Tickell. 
He deals along the lonely dale. Thomson's Spring. 
DAL 
DALE (Samuel), a medical writer, born in 1659. Hfe 
was the friend of our celebrated naturalift Ray, and pro¬ 
bably imbibed from him a tafte for the ftudies of natural 
hiftory. He appears to have practifed as an apothecary 
at Braintree in Effex, till about 1730, when he became 
a licentiate of the London college of phyfidans, and was 
admitted into the royal fociety. He afterwards fettled 
as a phyfician at Docking, where he pradtifed till his 
his death, in 173.9. He is chiefly known by his Pharma- 
cologia, f. Manududlio ad Materiam Medicam, of which 
the firft edition was printed in 1693, Svo. it was feveral 
times reprinted both in London and abroad ; the laft edi¬ 
tion, much improved and enlarged, is that of London, 
1737, 4to. This is one of the earlieft rational works 
upon the fubjedt. It is arranged according to the me¬ 
thod of Ray, and to each chapter, in the vegetable king¬ 
dom, is prefixed that botanift’s charadter of the genus. 
He alfo publiftted, in 1730, The Antiquities of Harwich 
and Dover Court, 4to, written by Silas Taylor in 1676, 
but to which he added notes of Iris own, compofing the 
greater part of the volume. Dr. Dale alfo communi¬ 
cated feveral papers to the royal fociety, which are pub- 
liftied in their Tranfadtions. 
DALE, a river of Ireland, in the county of Donegal, 
which runs into the Foyl, a little below Lifford. 
DALE, a lake of Ireland, in the county of Donegal, 
fixteen miles weft of Lifford. 
DALE'A,yi in botany. See Eupatorium, Lifpia, 
and Psoralea. 
DALECAR'LIA, a province of Sweden, bounded on 
the north by Hellingland, on the eaft by Geftricia and 
Weftmanland, on the fouth by Warmland, and on the 
weft by Norway; eighty leagues in length, and from fif¬ 
teen to forty in breadth ; containing rr^any mountains, in 
which ard mines of filver, copper, and iron, intermixed 
with fertile paftures. The principal productions are corn, 
wood, and hemp. The principal towns are Hedemora, 
Tuna, and Sater. 
D ALECIIAM'PIA, f. [given by Plumier, in honour 
of Jacobus Dalechampius, a phyfician of Lyons, a commen¬ 
tator on Diofcorides and Pliny; author of Hijloria Planta- 
rv.m, 1387.] In botany, a genus of the clafs monoecia, 
order monadelphia, natural order of tricoccae. The ge¬ 
neric charadjers are—Involucre common exterior fmaller; 
leaflets four, lanceolate, fpreading : interior very large; 
leaflets two, heart-fhaped, three-cleft, converging. For 
the male flowers a footftalked umbel, Ample, ten-flow¬ 
ered, fliorter than the interior involucre. (Linn. Suppl.) 
Calyx : involucel two-leaved, eredt, blunt; leaflets fome- 
wliat three-lobed ; feales numerous, obovate, preffed in 
an imbricate manner to the exterior fide of the involu¬ 
cel, and of the fame length with it; perianthium proper, 
five-leaved, footftalked; leaflets ovate, acute; deciduous. 
Corolla: none. Stamina: filaments very many, growing 
together into a column longer than the calyx ; antherse 
roundifti. In the females three florets within the fame 
common involucre, approximate to the inferior fide. 
(Linn. Suppl.) Calyx: involucel three-leaved; leaflets 
emarginate, fmall; perianthium proper, inferior; leaf¬ 
lets eleven, linear, toothed, acute, converging, perma¬ 
nent. Corolla: none. Piftillum: germ roundifti, fliorter 
than the perianth ; ftyle filiform, afeending, length of 
the males ; ftigma fomewhat headed, perforated. Peri¬ 
carpium: capfule roundifti, three-berried, three-celled; 
cells two-valved. Seed: folitary, globofe.— EJfential Cha¬ 
racter. Outer common involucre with four leaflets; inner 
with two trifid leaves. Male. Umbellule ten-flowered; 
involucel two-leaved, with numerous chaffs; proper pe¬ 
rianth five-leaved ; corolla, none ; filaments very many, 
connate. Female. Flofcules three; involucel three¬ 
leaved; proper perianth with eleven leaflets; corolla, 
none; ftyle, filiform; capfule, tricoccous. 
Species, i. Dalechampia colorata, or coloured dale- 
champia: leaves quite entire. This refembles the fe- 
cond fpecies, and the leaves are three-lobed, but lefs 
deeply 
