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three, many-cleft, fpreading. Peri: Driipa flcfliy, ratlier 

 kidncy-fhaped, containing a iingle feed. Nut fpirally fur- 

 rowed like a fcrew, the kernel funple. 



Eff. Ch. Male, Calyx of fix leaves. Corolla of three 

 petals. — Female, Calyx of fix leaves. Corolla of fix petals. 

 Stigmas three. Drupa kidney-ihaped, fpiral. 



I. L. fcanJeris. Cay Me ga of the Cochinchinefe, and 

 found in the woods of Cochinchina Stem (hrubby, climb- 

 ing, wilLoitt tendrils, long, much branched. Leaves alter- 

 nate, ovate -oblong, acuminate, entire, fmooth. Flowers, 

 both male and female, yellovvi(h-green. Drupa imall, 

 fwooth, acid and efculent. 



LIMADASI, in Geography, a town of Ciirdiftan, on an 

 ifland in the lake Van. 



LIMANDA, in Ichthyology, a name by which fome 

 anthers have called the flat-filh, which we in Engiifh call the 

 Jab, the paJJr ajper of authors. 



LIMARIA, a name given by Gaza and fnch other 

 writers to the thynnus or tunny-fifli, called the Spanj/lj 

 tnackrel. 



LIMASOVA, in Geography, one of the fmaller Phi- 

 lippine iflands, near Leyta. N. lat. lo i'. E. long. 

 125= 2'. 



LIMASSOL. See LiMESor,. 

 ■ LIMATAMBA, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of 

 Cuzco ; 25 miies W. of Cuzco. 



LIMATURA Martis Pnparata. See InoN". 



LIMAX, in Natural Hiflory, the Hug or fnail, a genus 

 of the Vermes Mollufca, clafs and order, of which the cha- 

 racter is ; — Body oblong, creeping, with a flefiiy kind of 

 Jhield above, and a longitudinal flat difk beneath ; aperture 

 placed on the right lide, within the fiiield ; feelers four, 

 fituated above the mouth, with an eye at the tip of each of 

 the larger ores. 



This genus, of which there are fifteen fpecies mentioned 

 in the Syftema Naturae, comprehends thofe animals that are 

 commonly known by the name of flugs, or naked fnails, 

 which commit fuch depredations in our fields and gardens, 

 efpecially in wet weather. Of the fifteen fpecies Jix arc 

 common in our own country. 



Species. 



I^rvrs. Body black, and almoil wilhoutvvrinkles. It is 

 fbund among mofs late in the autumn, and is about half an 

 inch long. The body is glofly, with undulate tranfverfe 

 ftricE on the {hield ; narrov%-Er, and not fo much wrinkled as 

 the aler, which is the next mentioned. 



Ater, or black (lug ; body black and furrowed with 

 ikep wrinkles. Of this fpecies five varieties are enumerated : 

 3'. The colour of this is deep black and pale beneath. 

 2. Bliiok, with a pale greeniih ridge down the back. 3. Black, 

 beneath white; mouth yeUowiih. 4. Chefnut-brown, be- 

 neath white; mouth yellowifh. J. Dudcy-brown, with a yel- 

 h.iwiih n.O'jth and llreak each fide. This laft is common in 

 woods, meadows, fields, and gardens ; and is from an inch 

 and a half to five inches in length ; it crawls vciy flowly, 

 ;i»d leaves a flime upon whatever it paffes over ; feelers al- 

 ways black ; the back is convex ; the fliield rough, with 

 numerous dors ; abdomen wrinkled. 



Albus. This fpecies, which is characterized by the white- 

 r.efs of its body, contains four varieties. I. llie entirely 

 white. 2. White edged with yellow. ^. White, with an 

 orange margin and hmd-head. 4. White, with black feelers ; 

 it inhabits woods and groves, and is from a quarter to half 

 an inch in length. 



RuFUs. Body, above pale rufous, beneath while; it 

 inhabits fliady damp places, and the botloin of hills, is 



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about an inch and a half long; the body has neither ^cts nci* 

 belts; its feelers are larger than thofe of the ater. 



Flavu.s. Body am.bcr-colour fpotted with white, and 

 is found in herbage. 



Maximus. Body cinereous, with or withoat fpots ; 

 there are fix varieties, ijiz. 1. Body immaculate; (hield 

 black-blue. 2. Shield fpotted with black ; body with 

 black longitudinal ftripes. 3. Shield and body fpotted 

 with black. 4. Body with five whitifh llreaks, the lower 

 one interrupted. 5. Body with white and cinereous 

 wrinkles, and black fputs in a double row. 6. Bodir 

 edged with v.'hite ; inhabits woods, gardens, and damp cel- 

 lars ; is from four to five inches long. 



Hyalinus, takes itsj name from the colour of its body,- 

 which has a hyaline or glafly appearance ; feelers obfolete;,- 

 with a brown line reaching from the feelers to the fliield ; 

 this is found in damp molfy places, and is very deilructive 

 to the young fhoots of kidney-beans; belly with numerous- 

 interrupted wrinkles. 



Agre.st!s. Ruftic fliig; body whitifh, with black- 

 feelers ; this fpecies is divided into four varieties, of which 

 the I, is entirely whitifh, immaculate; 2, whitifli, with a 

 yellowifli fiiield ; 3, whitifh, with a black head ; 4, whitifh, 

 with a cinereous back; 5, whitifli, with fcattercd black- 

 fpecks. 



The mofl curious of the above varieties is the fecond, 

 that with a yellowifh Ihield, or that which is characterized 

 by Miiller, in his Hill. Verm. " Limax albidus clypeo 

 flavefcente," or by Gmelin, " Limax albus, clypeo flavef- 

 cente ;" it has been figured by Liller, but more accurately, 

 and with great care, in the fourth volume of the Linnxan 

 Tranfadfions, in which it is exhibited in a ftate of repole, • 

 as it is feen in its progrefTive motion on the ground ; and 

 alfo as it is obferved fufpended from the branch of a tree,. 

 &c. both with refpect to its upper and nnder furfaces. . 

 This variety is denominated in our own language the /pin- ■ 

 ^''"'S.f^"S' ^'"^ ^^ commonly about three quarters of an iucll^ 

 long ; it inhabits woods and other fhady places. It vrzs 

 particularly noticed by Mr. Hoy, and defcribed in the ilrft 

 volume of the Tranfactions of the Linn-Tan Society ; at firlt 

 he faw it ful'pended from the branch of a fir tree, and was not 

 aware that it was a living creature. It was hanging by a 

 fingle line or thread attached to its tail. This thread was 

 in the upper part extremely fine, bnt near the animal it be- • 

 cam.e thicker and broader, till at length it exactly cor-- 

 refponded with the tail. Its defccnt was at the rate of an ■ 

 inch in three minutes, a motion fufficiently flow for the 

 minutell obfcrvations. The line by which it defeended was 

 drawn from the fiimy exudation gradually fecreted from ■ 

 the pores that covered its whole body. .Apparently there 

 was much exertion required to produce a fufficient kipply 

 of the liquid, and to force it towards the tail ; it alter- 

 nately drew back its head, and turned it as far as poffible, 

 firfl to one fide, and then to the other, as if to prefs its 

 fides, and thus promote fecretion. 



In addition to Mr. Hov's account, w« fhall give fome 

 farther particulars, taken iiom a curious paper by Dr. John-' 

 Latham, in the fourth volume of the Linnsran TranfacTtiuns; 

 a work that contains abundance of interelting matter, but 

 which is too expenfive to liave a ver}' general circulation be- 

 yond the members of the focicty. .Speaking of the curious 

 property belonging to the fpinning flng, the-dtjclor fays, 

 " that it is a cullom not unuiual for this fpecies of hniax: 

 to pafs from an height fecurcly to the ground, by means of 

 a thread of its own coultiudion feems manifeft ; for, on my 

 friend's (Colonel Montague, F.L.S.) putting one of them 

 on. the projecting frame of a w indow, it jwiuediatcly crawled 



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