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nsrui lAmoJorum to liis CymblJ'wm, very properly reftorss 

 the name to the original plant of Clufiua, whicli proves 

 dilliiict in (lenus from Orchis, as Tiiirnefort had done before 

 him. Cliif. Hid. V. I. 270. Toiirn. t. 2yo. Swartz. 

 Orchid, in Schrad. N. .Tourn. v. i. 84. t. I. f. 4. Ind. 

 Occ. 15:19. Willd. Sp. PI. V. 4. 122 — Clafs and order, 

 Cynandria Monandna. Nat. Ord. Orchuleic, Linn. Jufl". 

 Brown. Prodr. Nov. HoU. v. 1. 309. 



Gen. Ch. reformed. C<il. Perianth of three, generally 

 fprcading, equal leaves, rarely reverfed. Cor. Petals two, 

 generally fmaller than the calyx-Kaves. Neftary a fprcad- 

 ing lip, undivided or lobcd, concave at the bafe, projecting 

 hcliind in a fpiir, various in figure and lenffth. Stam. An- 

 ther an hemifpherical, fomctimes pointed, terminal, deciduous 

 lid, of two or four.celii; maflej of pollen ilalked, in pairs. 

 J'ijl. Germen inferior, oblong, or obovate. nearly upright, 

 furrowed ; ftyle femi-cvlindncal, often gibboiif, concave in 

 front ; lligma concave or convex, in the front of the ftvle 

 near the top. 'Per'ic. Capfule oblong, with three or fix ribs, 

 with one cell and three valves, opening by clefts between the 

 ribs. Seeds numerous, minute, each clothed with n chaflTy 

 tunic, inferted into the downy internal ridges of the valves. 



E(f. Ch. reformed. Calyx-leaves fotnewhat fpreading. 

 Lip fpreading, elongated at the bafe behind into a fpur. 

 Anther a terminal lid, deciduous. 



Dr. Swartz enumerates twenty-one fpecies, befides a 

 doubtful one, which is RodnguiT.ia of the Prodr. Fl. I'cruv. 

 etChil. t. TJ. Profeflbr Willdenow has twcnty-fcven fpecies, 

 •for though he omits the fix laft of Swart/.'s, having, perhaps, 

 not feen Schrader's New .Journal, in which, and in its re- 

 impreffion the Genera et Species Orchidcanm, ordy, they are 

 dclcribcd ; he has added twelve others, which Swartz had 

 only i" part indicated as doubtful. All thefe are adopted 

 by Willdenow from books ; the fix wliofe defcriptions he 

 had not feen, were all gathered by Dr. Af'zclius at Sierra 

 Leone. 



This genus differs from Cymb'ulium in having a fpur to 

 the nectary, in whofe cavity the honey is lodged. We have 

 however already mentioned, (fee CvMiimiuM,) that this 

 chara(fter, though apparently decifive, is overfet by fome 

 iiondefcript Orchtdeu:, found by Dr. Buchanan in the liaft 

 Indies. Thefe, by every mark, except the abfence or pre- 

 -fencc of a fpur in which they totally differ among thcmfelves, 

 -mull form one genus, differing in habit from every thing 

 already known ; and we have little doubt that a critical 

 examination of them recent, would be the meai^s of detetl- 

 ing fonic oveiT-ruling charafter, which would ftamp this 

 genus, independent of all that concerns the fpur. In that 

 cafe, the latter might Hill remain a fufficient difUndlion 

 •between lAmodnrum and Cymildium. 



Some remarkable fpecies of Umodorum are 



L. TdiihervUlits. Banks in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. i. v. ^. 

 302. t. 12. Andr. Repof. t. 426. Willd. n. i. (Phauis 

 grandifolius ; Loureir. Cochinch. 529.) — Leaves radical, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, pointed, ribbed, plaited. Stalk fimple, 



many-flowered. Lip convoluted, with a very (liort fpur 



Native of China. It is treated in Europe as a (love plant, 

 flowering in th." fpring. We firll faw it at Lady Tanker- 

 ville's in 17S6, and it bloffomed that year at Haerlem. 

 The great li^e of the whole plant, which much exceeds 

 that of any other of rliis natural order, whether wild or 

 cultivated in Britain, and the fplendidly contralled colours 

 of the jlowers, render it mwon admired. The infide of 

 the calyx and petals is cinnamon-coloured, the outfidc of 

 the mod brilliant polilhcd white ; the netiary crimfon, 

 often compared, though certainly inferior in beauty, to the 

 foxglove. 



L. alorhvinn. Willd. n. 26. (L. auHriacnm ; Tourn. 

 Inft. 437. Orchis abortiva ; Linn Sp. PI. 1 336. Jacq. 

 Audr. t. 193. Epipaftis, n. 1288. t. 36. Hall. Hdvet. 

 V. 2. 148.) — Leaves none. Stalk with feveral tubular 

 fhcaths. Flowers but little fpreading. Lip wavy. Spur 

 awl-fhaped, the length of the germen. — Native of fhady 

 woods in Germany, Italy, the fouth of France, and fome 

 parts of Switzerland, but rare even in that country of 

 Orehidca. That it has no right to a place in the Flora of 

 Britain, though admitted by Ray and Hudfon, is now 

 generally allowed. The millake arofe from its being con- 

 founded in old books with Orohnvche citrulca, Engl. Bot. 

 t. 423, as is minutely explained at length in Tr. of Linn. 

 Soc. v. 4. 164 — 169, and it appears that Lobel's Orcbanche 

 major, e Gramunl'w luco Alonfjxllienfiiim, Lob. Ic. v. 2. 269. 

 f. I, which is Orobanche monfpeliuca jlor'ibus oblongis, Ger. 

 em. 1 3 12, is cert^iinly this Limodorum. The root conhils 

 of two biennial cinders of thick, cylindrical, divaricated 

 fibres. Tlipjfali is fimpie and folitarv, eighteen to twenty, 

 four inches high, clothed with a few clofe pi!rplidi Ihealhs, 

 and terminating in a clofe Ipike of rather large jioivcrs, 

 variegated with paler and deeper purple. 



L. Epipog'wm. Willd. n. 27. (Epipogium ; Gmel. Sib, 

 V. I. II. t. 2. f. 2. Satyrinm Epipogium ; IJnn. Sp. PI. 

 1338. Jacq. Audr. t. 84. Epipadtis, r, 12S9. Hall. 

 Helvet. V. 2. 149.) — Leaves none. Stalk Iheathed. Floweis 

 few, pendulous, reverfed. Lip three-lobcd, concave. Spur 



ovate, afcending This fingular and rare plant grows in 



foine (hady barren forells in Siberia, Germany, and .Swit- 

 zerland. Its pale hue and tlefhy habit, fo like EfipaRis 

 Nidus- A'c'is, indicate its being a parafitical attendant on the 

 roots of trees. See EpiPAni.s, n 9; and Epipooum. 



Dr. Swartz refers alio to this fame genus the Cvprip'-dh.-m 

 hulhofum, Linn .Sp. PI. 1347. Sm. Spicil. t. n, a moft 

 curious plant, found in Lapland and Nova Scotia, of which 

 very little is known ; but the propriety of this mealure is 

 in our opinion very doubt rul. 



LlMODOUi'M, in Gardejihi'^, contains plants of the bulbo- 

 tuberous rooted herbaceous perennial kind, of which the 

 fpecies commonly cultivated are the tuberous-rooted limo- 

 dorum ( L. tuberofnm) ; the tall limodorum (L. altum) ; 

 and the Cliinefe limodorum (L. Tankerviilix.) 



Method of Culture. — Thefe plants are increafed by plant- 

 ing the offsets from the roots in pots of bog-earth, and 

 plunging them, in the firil fort, in a mild tan-pit, and in the 

 others, in the tan hot-bed of the Hove. The proper time of 

 taking them off is \^•hen the plants are the molt deftitute of 

 leaves. 



But the two lad forts fliould have a loamy mould, and 

 but little water in the winter feafon. And the fird requires 

 the proteAion of a good green-houfe in winter, but the 

 two lad fliould be kept in the bark-bed of the Hove. 



All thefe plants afford variety in green-houfe and dove 

 collections. 



LIMOGES, in Geography, a city of France, and capital 

 of the department of the Upper Vienne ; and before the 

 revolution, the fee of a bifhop. It is a place of coiiliderable 

 trade, and contains about 20,550 inhabitants, and 25,466 m 

 the t)vo cantons, on a territory of 292* kiliometres, in 11 

 communes. N. ht. 45 50'. E. long, i" 20'. 



LIMON, in Botany, Tourn. 397, the Lemon. See Cr- 

 TRU.s inedica ,? 



LiMoN, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the W. fidis of the' 

 gulf of Bothnia. N. lat. 60 44'. E. long. 17= 9'. 



I^IMONA de la I'rou, a town near the N. coait of the 

 ifland of Hifpaniola ; 10 miles S.E. of Cape Franjois. 



LIMONE, a town of France, in the department of the 



Maritime 



