LEP 



LEP 



Natural order of Coryclales. Bcrbcrkle?, which "gave the old English naturalists tire 

 Jussieu. Essential character : calyx six- idea of a bird. They ascribed the origin 

 leaved, deciduous ; corolla six-petulied ; of the barnacle-goose to these shells, 

 nectary six leaved, placed on the claws of LEPIDIUM, in botany, pepper-wort, a 



of the Tetradynamia Siliculosa 



the corolla, spreading There are three 

 species. 



LEONTODOX, in botany, dandelion, a 

 genus of the Syngenesiu Polygamia JEqua- 

 lis class and order. Natural order of 

 Composite Semifiosculosi. Cichoraceac, 

 Jussieu. Essential character : calyx im- 

 bricate, with loosish scales ; down capil- 

 lary ; receptacle naked, dotted. There 

 are four species, of which L. taraxacum, 

 dandelion, is common all over Europe, in 

 meadows, on walls, dry banks, Sec.; it 

 flowers from ^pril to September ; the 

 flowers expand about five or six in the 

 morning-, closing- early in the afternoon ; 

 as the flower advances, the calyx is gra- 

 duaflv pressed out at top, and when the 

 flowcrin 



genus 



class and order. Natural order of Sili- 

 quosx, or Cruciformcs. Cruciferzc, Jus- 

 sieu. Essential character: silicle emar- 

 g-inate, cordate, many-seeded; valves 

 keeled, contrary. There are twenty- 

 three species, of which L. perfoliatum, 

 various-leaved pepper-wort, is an annual 

 plant, about a foot in height ; the stem is 

 round, upright, and smooth, tinged with 

 purple, dividing into many slender 

 branches; flowers in corymbs, or long, 

 loose spikes, from the ends of the 

 branches; silicles orbiculate, scarcely 

 emarginate, and the terminating style so 

 short as to be hardly visible. It is" a na- 

 tive of Austria and the Levant. 



LEPIDOPTERA, or scaly-winged, the 



^ is past, it contracts again into a 



conical, form, and finally when the seeds third order of insects, according" to the 



are mature, the calvx is again pushed Linnaean system. The general character 



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tongue involute, 



spiral ; body hairy. It consists of the in- 

 commonly 



back, and the aggregate of down assumes of this order is four wings, covered with 

 a spherical form, till the whole is loosen- fine imbricate scales ; ' 

 ed and dissipated by the wind. 



LEON ORUS, in botany, lion's tail, a ge- 

 nus of the Didynamia (jymnospermia 

 class and order. Natural order of Verti- 

 cillata:. Labiatx, Jussieu. Essential cha- 

 racter: anthers having shining dots sprin 



sects 

 moths. 



termed butterflies and 

 There are three genera, viz. 



Papilio Sphinx 



Phalaena 



kled over them. There are live species. The powder on the wings of these in- 

 LEPAS, in natural history, acorn-shell, sects has been generally described by mi- 

 a genus of the VermesTestacea class and croscopical writers as consisting of small 

 order. Animal a triton ; shell affixed at feathers ; but they are more in the form 

 the base, and consisting of many unequal, of minute scales, of various shapes and 

 erect valves. There are upwards of thir- sizes, on the different species, and even 

 ty species. L. balanus, shell conic, on the different parts of the same animal, 

 grooved ; operculum or lid, sharp-point- Their usual appearance is more or less 

 ed : it inhabits the European and Medi- fan-shaped, and they are disposed in the 

 terranean seas, adhering in the greatest manner of tiles on a roof, lapping over 

 abundance to rocks, shells, &.c. ; general- each other. See PAPILIO, &c. 

 ly whitish; with about six outer valves, LEPISMA, in natural history, a genus 

 three of which are elevated and striate, of insects of the order Aptera ;* lip mem- 

 and three excavated and smoother ; the branaceous, rounded, emarginate ; four 

 pieces composing the lid, are finely ere- feelers, of which two are setaceous, 

 iiate \vilh transverse wrinkles, two lesser and two capitate; antennae setaceous; bo- 

 and two larger, and pointed. L. anatife- dy imbricate, with scales ; tail ending 

 ra, duck-barnacle, shell compressed, five- in setaceous bristles ; six legs, formed for 

 valved, smooth, seated on a peduncle : of running. There are seven species enu- 

 this there are several varieties, which in- me rated, of these the principal is L. sac- 

 habit most seas ; they are generally charina ; scaly, silvery, lead-colour, with 

 found fixed in clusters to the bottoms of a triple tail. " It inhabits America, among 

 vessels and old pieces of floating timber ; sugar, but is naturalized in Europe, and 

 whitish, with a blue cast, the margins of found among old books and furniture ; it 

 the valves yellow, sometimes marked runs exceedingly swift, and is difficult to 

 with a ray or two dotted with black ; pe- catch. In their various stages of exist - 

 cluncle long, coriaceous, black, and very cnce these insects prey upon sugar, de- 

 much wrinkled towards the shell, and cayed wood, and rotten substances ; the 

 growing paler and pellucid towards the larva and pupa are six-footed, active, and 

 base, extensile; sometimes, though not swift, 

 often, red. The tentacula are feathered, LEPROSO amovendo, an ancient writ to 



