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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Lycopodium— continued. 
slender, upright stems, 3in. to Ain. high. New Zealand. A rare 
and handsome, terrestrial, greenhouse species. 
L. Selago toc se Fir Club Moss. Stems erect, Sin. to din. high 
forked. ome es level at the top. I. in eight rows, uniform, 
narrow-lanceolate, acute, entire. Temperate and cold regions of 
both hemispheres (British Isles). 
L. taxifolium (Yew-leaved).* Stems thickly clothed with bright 
n, acuminate leaves, about zin. long. h. din. to 12in. 
amaica, A very handsome stove species; the ends of its 
branches are swollen, and the sporan situated at the base of 
1 7 leaves. It must be suspended head downwards. (B. H. 
e Stems slender, much-branched. l. 
very closely set, bright dark green. h. 6in, Australia. A 
pretty greenhouse species, thriving well in peat and sand, and 
with plenty of drainage. 
verticillatum (whorled). Stems several times forked. l, in 
whorls round the stem, jin. long, acuminate, dark green. 
Mauritius. A very handsome, procumbent, stove species, grow- 
ing from 10in. to 20in. long. 
LYCORIS (named after a beautiful Roman actress, 
mistress of Mare Antony). ORD. Amaryllidew. A genus 
comprising three species of greenhouse bulbous plants, 
natives of China, Japan, and Central Asia, allied to 
Amaryllis, from which they may be distinguished by 
the undulated divisions of the spreading perianth being 
curved upwards, and bearing a simple fringed stigma. 
For culture, &., see Amaryllis. 
L. aurea (golden).* fl. golden-yellow, stalked, e funnel- 
shaped, clavate ; segments 8983 August and Septem- 
ber. l 5 3 h. 1 * 5 — — —— A very 
pretty e flowers appearin: ore the leaves. 
3 (ender which name i is figured in B. M. 409 
L. radiata (rayed). fl. d ink, approaching to scarlet. June. 
. . e . in. wide, h. 1}ft, 
China, 1758. Syn. Nerine japonica. (B. R. ; A. B. R 96, 
under name of Amaryllis radiata.) 
SYN, 
= 
ANN 
o 8 Fig. 492. Lycoris SEWERZOWI, showing Habit, and detached 
a Flower (natural size). 
L. Sewerzowi Sewerzow’s).* fl. brownish-red, fragrant. Sum- 
mer. . ah onthe bluntish. k. Ift. Turkestan, 1877. 
Fig. 492. (R. G. 914.) = 
LYDA. A genus of Sawflies, the larve of which do 
rable damage to trees. The larve have no pro- 
legs, but at the end of the body are two organs some- 
what like true legs, and with the help of these organs 
they move along slowly. They are usually semi-social, 
spinning a web in common over twigs and leaves, but 
also each spinning a separate tube for itself within the 
web, in which it lives. They become pup in the soil. 
L. nemoralis and L. Pyri injure Plums and other stone- 
fruit trees, Apple and Pear- trees, &c., and they also eat 
Hawthorn; other species feed on Willows, Birches, and 
Alder, and several (L. campestris, L. erythrocephala, &.) 
do very considerable injury to conifers. The habits of 
the lar vw facilitate their destruction in the webs, the 
appearance of which is shown at Fig. 493. 
of this genus is a hardy perennial grass. 
Lyda—continued. 
NS 
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L A pe 
Fie. 493. LARVÆ AND WEB OF LYDA PYRI. 
_LYGEUM (from geo, to bend; alluding to the flexi- 
bility of the plant). ORD. Gramineæ. The only species 
x It thrives in 
any light loamy soil, and may be increased by dividing 
at the roots. 
L. r ayrirn Spartum). yl. hermaphrodite; peduncle terminal; 
Py et ma: large, erect or — 5 88 rarely three- 
owered. May. l. rush. like, erect, long, convolute-terete, subu- 
late, acuminate. 
on the seashore), 1776. 
h. 13ft. Mediterranean 3 (rocky places 
valuable material fı ang “Tha plant which yields the 
rial for paper-ma. 4 e which yie. e 
Esparto of the paper-makers is o ELA — 
LYGODICTYON FORSTERI. A synonym of 
Lygodium reticulatum (which see). 
LYGODICTYON HETERODOXUM. A synonym 
of Lygodium heterodoxum (which see). 
LYGODICTYON LINDENI. A synonym of 
Lygodium heterodoxum (which see). 
LYGODIUM (from lygodes, flexible; referring to the 
flexible habit). Orp. Filices. A genus comprising about 
eighteen species of handsome, wide-scandent, twining, mostly 
stove ferns, widely diffused. Capsules solitary (or casu- 
ally in pairs), in the axils of large, imbricated, clasping 
involucres, which form spikes either in separate pinnæ 
or in lax rows along the edge of the leafy ones. The 
species are readily distinguishable from all others by 
their wide-scandent climbing stems; the fronds are per- 
manent, and become interlaced with each other, some- 
times forming, together with other plants, impervious 
thickets. As a rule, the species thrive in a compost of 
peat, loam, and sand, in equal parts. For general cul- 
ture, see Ferns. 
L. articulatum (jointed). primary petiole lin. to zin. long; 
ete Bo —— long ; barren 'pinnules twice forked, = 
— _ligulate-oblong segments, which are 2in. in. 
oea ut zin. broad, blint af ihe point, very distinctly articu- 
poms at t. on a short petiole ; fertile pinnules many times 
ichotomous, the short spike in dense clusters, which are often 
almost destitute of lamina. New Zealand, 1844. 
2218 A synonym of L. dichotomum. 
. (dichotomous).* primary petiole so much re- 
N that the fork seems almost to spring from the main rachis; 
2 5 to 2in. long, firm, naked; pinnules digitate, with 
pon = six lobes reaching nearly down to the base, or once or 
1215 2 forked ; ultimate barren divisions din. to 8in., or even 
a ne 5 pi * = e e 3 an 
> . on, 
Kong, &c. SYNS, L. circinatum 5 ppe : 
L. Forsteri (Forsters). A synonym of L. reticulatum. 
L. hastatum (halbert-shaped). A synonym of L. volubile. 
