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AN ENCYCLOPEDIA 
OF HORTICULTURE. 299 
LOTUS (from Lotos, the old Greek name given by 
Theophrastus and Dioscorides to some leguminous plants). 
Bird's-foot Trefoil. Including Pedrosia and Tetragono- 
lobus. ORD. Leguminose. A large genus (about 100 
species have been described, although not more than fifty 
have any claim to specific rank) of greenhouse or hardy 
herbs or sub-shrubs, widely dispersed over the temperate 
regions of the Northern hemisphere in the Old World, 
the mountains of tropical Asia, and extra-tropical South 
Africa. Flowers yellow, red, purple, pink, or White, 
usually several together in an umbel, on an axillary 
peduncle. Leaves four or five-folioiate; leaflets entire. 
But few species are worth growing, and these are of 
very easy culture in almost any ordinary garden soil. 
L. jacobeus is a greenhouse sub-shrubby plant, but it is 
very liable to die off in winter. It can be increased, 
during early summer, by cuttings, placed in an airy 
situation, and kept carefully watered. The species can 
also be raised annually from seeds, which are ripened 
freely in this country. L. gebelia and L. jacobeus would 
probably prove hardy in the open air, if planted in a 
warm, sheltered spot. 
L. albidus (whitish). A synonym of L. australis, 
L, australis (Southern). ‘oo usualy pink, but varying from white 
to a purple-red. July. leaflets narrower than in L. cornicu- 
latus, and the 3 ones dissimilar, but n from obovate 
to linear. Stems diffuse, ascending, or erect. A, 2ft. Australia, 
10 perennial, (B. M. 1 0 SYN. L. albidus (L. B. C. 
corniculatus (small-horned).* Common Bird’s-foot Trefoil. 
Jl. bright yellow, fading to an o “ues gga vexillum striped 
with red at the base in front ; ped es very long, each beari 
three, four, five, or ten flowers at the apex in a kind of fla 
umbel. Summer and autumn. l, leaflets obovate, acute, entire; 
stipules ovate. Northern hemisphere (Britain), Plant pro- 
cumbent. A very handsome dwarf herbaceous nt weil suited 
for growing on a rockwork. (Sy. En. B. The double- 
flowered form is very desirable. 
L. gebelia <Gohel-chee), * A. at first red, but ultimately pale rose, 
p: heads of long uncles usually three-flowered. June and 
July. L, leaflets and stipules ovate, rather glaucescent. Stems 
Daaa t. Asia Minor, 1816. Greenhouse perennial. 
Fic. 472. Lorus 5 sh 8 —— — 
Portion of Flowers (natural size 
L. jacobæus (St. Jago)“ 8 le, almost black, » with the 
Senter ana kaina 1. 25 lente ant gies Jonger than tbe loaves 
L. - pigeon’s-beak).* loose]: wded 
short shoots Seems x ener oF X the břtnehes; corolla scarlet 
lin. with a narrow- sharply re- 
cary a hood. $ . , 
leaflets (as if h. iffe, 1884. A 
‘and ot shrub. (B. M. 6733.) 
— (pinnate). ot igs mene 
Tetragonolobus Kner "than he’ 
x Bin tS bracts Si vel . to N 
ee ee 
isalo ekovata, saite ovate. h. 6in. to 
coe Hardy annual. SYN. 0 (B. 11.131. 151.) 
loped jaws, that’ i could not be mistaken for any other 
1 LOTUS-TREE, EUROPEAN. Se Diospyros 
LOTZEA. Included under Asplenium. 
LOUSEWORT. See Pedicularis. 
LOVAGE. See Ligusticum scoticum. 
LOVE APPLE. See Lycopersicum. 
LOVE GRASS. See Eragrostis. 
LOVE-IN-A-MIST. ‘See Nigella damascena, N. 
sativa, &. 
LOVE-IN-IDLENESS. See Viola tricolor, 
LOVE - LIES - BLEEDING. Se Amaranthus 
caudatus, 
LOWEA. Included under Rosa (which see). 
LOXANTHES. A synonym of Nerine (which see). 
LOXOCOCCUS (from loros, oblique, and kokkor, a 
berry; fruit oblique). Orp. Palme. A n 
genus, the species being an elegant stove palm, * 5 
flowered, for the first time in England, ot ‘Kew, in 
spring of 1878, For culture, see 
L, rupicola (rck-loving)* and spatho : blood-red into 
stem beneath 
Pag ow agas e — N ot Eto a og to a 
: tes Ht oo, with a gn smooth, shortly : 
ca ; pinnules from t and 
wel 3 
Sort, e N te n ., 
Ptychosperma rupicola, (B. M. asa)” ; e 
LOXOSCAPHE. Included under Davallia (which 
see). 
LOXSOMA (from loros, oblique, and soma, a body; 
the sporangia are girt by an incomplete ring). Onn, 
Filices. A monotypic genus, the species being a re- 
markable and rare greenhouse fern. For culture, see 
- 
L. Cunninghami (C 'unningham's). ca cau. long, 5 H 
15 n hry ma marginal, in si mas se of the teeth or 
LUBINIA. Included under 8 (which 
see). 
UCANUS CERVUS, or STAG BEETLE. This 
1 bee ee tg a ino malar PiE Oe 
473) is so strikingly distinguished by the enormously dev 
cluding the jaws; but they vary greatly in size of body, 
and in length of jaws, the smaller males not exceeding 
half the above size. female 
the 3 but is liko tho lattor, exoopt in having short 
rid as aro black; the jaws —— wing comes 
e wa „ with gv margins. 
The beetles feed on the juices of twigs and vox, which 
ruise their strong jaws. ny appear fond 
pr jos Para ger s female lays her eggs in ge 
i Willows T 
or dying, trunks eee of Oaks or 
live, feeding for three or four years. 
in them the larva ve, 1 
thus do considerable damage. 
The cocoons are — 4 of chips of wood in the tree ; and 
Stag Beetles 
ae plentifal, eg al, and 
„„ in the North of — or in Scot 
nearly related, but smaller insect—the Small Stag 
D (sce Fig. 474)—ofteñ 
with Lucanus c cervus, and is of the same habi 
