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undivided. It seldom rises more than four or five feet high ; 

 flowers white ; wood hard, beautifully veined with gray and 

 pale yellow. Berries large, dark blue, with a purple juice, 

 which stains paper of a strong colour, and perhaps might be 

 useful in dying. Native of Switzerland, Austria, &c. 

 *** Stem upright, peduncles many-flmvered. 



15. Lonicera Mongolica ; Russian Honeysuckle. Peduncles 

 many-flowered ; berries simple, one-flowered ; leaves ovate, 

 serrate, pubescent ; stem upright; corolla yellowish white. 

 Grows in the desert of the Mongols, and in Dauria. 



16. Loiiicera Symphoricarpos ; Shrubby St. Peter'swort. 

 Heads lateral, peduncled; leaves petioled. Height about 

 four feet, sending out many slender branches; flowers of an 

 herbaceous colour, in whorls. They appear in August and 

 September. Native of Virginia and Carolina. 



17. Lonicera Bubalina. Heads terminating, peduncled; 

 leaves oblong, quite entire, smooth ; branches round, smooth. 

 Found by Sparrmann at the Cape of Good Hope, where the 

 Dutch call it Buffelfiarn. 



18. Lonicera Diervilla; Yellow-flowered Upriyht Honey- 

 suckle. Racemes terminating ; leaves serrate. This is a low 

 shrub, seldom rising more than three feet high; flowers small, 

 pale yellow. Native of North America. 



19. Lonicera Corymbosa, Corymbs terminating; leaves 

 ovate-acute. Native of Peru. 



Looking Glass, Venus's. See Campanula. 



Loosestrife. See Aiiayallis and Lysimachia. 



Loosestrife, Codded. See Epilobium Hirsutum. 



Loosestrife, Spiked. See Lythrum. 



Lopezia; a genus of the class Monandria, order Monogy- 

 nia. ESSUNTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: superior, of four 

 unequal leaves. Corolla: irregular, of four petals. Nectary: 

 stalked, folded, opposite to the stamen. Capsule: of four 

 cells ami four valves. Seeds: numerous. The species are, 



1. Lopezia Hirsuta; Hairy Lopezia. Leaves ovate, downy; 

 stem round, hairy. The plant is annual, kept in the stove, 

 and flowers from September to November. The stem is two 

 feet high, branched, pale green, clothed with longish soft 

 hairs; leaves alternate, stalked, about an inch long-; clusters 

 solitary, at the end of every little branch, somewhat corym- 

 bose, leafy ; flowers spreading, prettily variegated with pink, 

 deep red, and white, in shape not unlike some sort of little 

 flies : when touched, they exhibit a striking elasticity, if not 

 irritability. Native of Mexico. 



2. Lopezia Racemosa ; Smooth Lopezia. Stem square, 

 smooth, as well as the leaves ; floral leaves minute. This 

 much resembles the first species, but differs in the squareness 

 of the stem. Native of Mexico. 



3. Lopezia Coronata ; Coronet-flowered Lopezia. Leaves 

 smooth and shining; stem angular, from the decurrent foot- 

 stalks; floral leaves mostly longer than the flower-stalks. 

 Native of Mexico. 



Lopping. It ;s very observable that most old trees are 

 hollow within , which does not proceed from the nature of the 

 trees, but is the fault of those who suffer the tops to grow 

 large before they lop them, as the Ash, Elm, and Hornbeam, 

 and persuade themselves that they may have the more great 

 wood ; but in the mean time do not consider that the cutting 

 off great tops or branches endangers the life of a tree, or at 

 least wounds it so that the trees which are thereby yearly 

 decayed in their bodies, amount to much more than the 

 quantity of tops produced ; hence it is to the loss of the 

 owner to have them so managed. But the lopping of young 

 trees at ten or twelve years old, in general will preserve 

 them much longer, and will occasion the shoots to grow 

 more into wood in one year, than they do in old tops in two 

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or three. As large boughs, clumsily taken off, often spoil 

 the trees, they should always be spared, except in a case of 

 absolute necessity; but when they must be cut off, it should 

 be close and smooth, and not in a slanting manner, and the 

 wound ought to be covered with loam and horse-dung 

 mixed, to prevent the wet from entering the body of the tree. 

 When trees are at their full growth, there are several signs 

 of their decay ; as, the withering or dying of many of their 

 top branches ; or if the wet enters at any knot ; or they are 

 anywise hollow or discoloured ; if they make weakly shoots ; 

 and when the woodpeckers drill holes in them. This lop- 

 ping of trees is only to be understood for pollard trees ; be- 

 cause nothing is more injurious to the growth of timber-trees, 

 than that of lopping or cutting off" great branches from them: 

 whoever will be at the trouble of trying the experiment upon 

 two trees of equal size and age, growing near each other, to 

 lop off the side branches from one of them, and suffer all 

 the branches to grow upon the other, will in a few years 

 find the latter to exceed the other in growth in every way, 

 and that it will not decay so soon. All sorts of resinous 

 trees, or such as abound with a milky juice, should be 

 lopped very sparingly, for they are subject to decay when 

 often cut. The best season for lopping these tree*, is BOOH 

 after Bartholomew tide, at which time they seldom bleed 

 much, and the wound is commonly healed over before the 

 cold weather comes on. But very few sorts of ornamental 

 trees should be lopped, as it greatly injures their beauty and 

 appearance : the only thing necessary is to take off such 

 straggling branches as may grow out in an awkward direction, 

 and render them less ornamental. 



Loranthus; a genus of the class Hexandria, order Mono- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth of the 

 fruit inferior ; margin entire, concave ; of the flower superior, 

 or the margin entire, concave. Corolla: petals six, oblong, 

 revolute, equal. Stamina: filamenta six, awl-shaped, fastened 

 to the bases of the petals, the length of the corolla ; antherse 

 oblong. Pistil: germen oblong, between the two calices, 

 or inferior; style simple, the length of the stamina; stigma 

 blunt. Pericarp: berry oblong, one-celled. Seed: oblong. 

 ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Germen: inferior; calix none. 

 Corolla : six-cleft, revolute. Stamina : at the tips of the 

 petals. Berry: one-seeded. These are mostly parasitical 

 shrubs, the leaves thickish, often opposite, but sometimes 1 

 alternate; flowers axillary, sometimes, but seldom, terminat- 

 ing, corymbed or spiked, or on one-flowered pedicels. 

 The species are, 



1. Loranthus Tetrapetalus. Peduncles one-flowered, sub- 

 solitary; leaves ovate, obtuse, subsessile. Native of New 

 Zealand. 



2. Loranthus Scurrula. Peduncles one-flowered, heaped ; 

 leaves obovate.- Native of China and the Philippine Islands. 



3. Loranthus Uniflorus. Racemes quite simple. Native 

 of St. Domingo, in woods, flowering in November and 

 December. 



4. Loranthus Glaucus. Peduncles axillary, one-flowered; 

 leaves ovate, glaucous. Native of the Cape.' 



5. Loranthus Europseus. Racemes simple, terminating ; 

 flowers dioecous. Native of Austria, parasitical on oaks; and 

 also of Siberia. 



6. Loranthus Americanus. Racemes somewhat branched^ 

 cymed ; flowers nodding; leaves ovate, diftbrm. This spe- 

 cies ramps over the highest trees in Jamaica, Martinico, &c. 

 It especially climbs the Coccoloba Grandifolia, with the root 

 adhering firmly to the bark like Misselto. If a large bough, 

 on which it grows, be cut off, the next day it withers and 

 perishes. 



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