LAGERSTREMIA. 
266. 
LASIOPETALUM. 
Lasu'rnum.—See Cy'risus. 
Lacesark.—See Lace'tTa 
Lacuena ‘tia. — Asphodélee. — 
Cape bulbs, with very showy flow- 
ers. They will not heed taking up 
in winter; but must be grown in 
pets in a greenhouse, and allowed 
very little water at that season. They 
are generally grown inloam and peat, 
mixed with a little leaf-mould. 
La‘panum, or Labdanum. — A 
gum produced by some of the kinds 
of Cistus, different from Laudanum, 
which is a preparation from Opium, 
and made from the Poppy. 
Lapies Bepstraw.—See Ga'‘Lium. 
Lapies Mantie—See ALCHE- 
MILLA. 
Lapies’ Suipper.—See Crprirr’- 
DIUM. 
Lapies’ Traces._See Spina NTHES. 
Lapy Birp.—See Coccine'Lia. 
1# LIA. — Orchidaceae. — A very 
beautiful epiphyte, which may be 
grown with its roots wrapped in| 
moss, and fastened on a piece of | 
'they resemble those of the Meze- 
wood ; or in the husk of a cocoa- 
nut. The flowers are extremely 
beautiful and very delicate. 
Orcuipeous Epipnyres. 
 Lacena‘aia. — Cucurbitacee. — 
The Bottle Gourd. An East Indian 
species of Gourd, which is some- 
times grown on account of its cu- | 
rious shape; but the pulp of which 
is poisonous. 
Lacerstre@ mia.— Lythrariee, or 
Salicarig.—The Pride of India. 
Beautiful trees, with flowers some- 
thing like those of the Clarkia in 
form, but much more brilliant in 
colour. L. indica is generally grown 
in the stove, but the other species 
See | 
fusely during midsummer. At the 
approach of winter, they are again 
placed in their tubs and removed 
into a cool part of the greenhouse 
or a warm cellar. As far north as 
Philadelphia they will endure the 
open air at all seasons, the branches 
and trunks being sheathed with 
straw or mats in winter.—Ep.] 
Lace'rra. — Thymedlee. — The 
Lacebark Tree. A shrub or low 
tree, a native of Jamaica, remark- 
able for its liber or inner bark. This 
inner bark slips off the wood with- 
out difficulty ; and its fibres, which 
are extremely fine, are so tough, that 
they will admit of being spread out 
without breaking or separating, till 
the bark becomes so Jace-like in its 
texture, that Charles II. had a collar 
and ruffles made of it. In England 
the plant requires a stove, and to be 
grown in a mixture of loam and 
peat. It is propagated by cuttings, 
which are rather hard to strike. 
The flowers are white, and in shape 
reon ; but instead of being produced 
in clusters round the stem, they 
grow on a kind of spike, far apart 
from each other. 
La‘mium.—Labidte.—The Dead 
Nettle. Annual and perennial plants 
that are quite hardy in the open 
ground in Britain ; but which suc- 
ceed best in a light rich soil. 
Lanta\na.—- Verbendcee.—-Green- 
house and hothouse plants, with 
pretty flowers, nearly allied to the 
Verbenas ; and the half-hardy ones 
requiring the same treatment. See 
Ve'RBENA. : 
Lareyrou'sta.—Jridécee.—Cape 
succeed if planted in the open ground | bulbs, with pretty flowers, which 
in a conservatory. 
[L. indica is| may be planted in a warm border, 
familiarly known as the Crape Myr- | and left in the ground during win- 
tle ; and both this and the Pome- 
ter, if protected during that season 
granate are favourite half-hardy | by a handglass, &c., from frost or 
shrubs, which add greatly to the | heavy rain. 
beauty of our gardens in summer, 
—being planted out in the open air 
Larxsrur.—See Dexpni'nium. 
Lasiope'TaLuM. — Bytternidcee. 
in spring, where they bloom pro-|—Australian low shrubs, which re- 
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