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tht cavUff in which it is lodged, is never found to be very 

 gioat. 



This fceins the only known inflance of a gall formed by 

 a genuine caterpillar, the inhabitants of the willow galls, 

 though iifiially eftecmid fmooth caterpillars, being not fo, 

 but the worms of a four-winged fly. Reaumur'* Hill, of 

 Infeds, vol. vi. p. 2:7. 



LIMOSA, in Oinhhohgy, the fcolopax glottis of Lin- 

 niws, the name of a long-legged water-bird, common in 

 Italy, and callei-1 by fome glottis, and pluvm/it major. See 

 alfo >Si;oi oi'Ax limofa, fufca and Fedoa, Tetanus, &c. &c_ 

 and Recl'rviuostk \ Amtricana. 



LiMOSA, iH Icliihyoli};y, a name given by Salvian to the 

 common' mackarel, and in his figures to the thynniis, or 

 tiiiiny-fiili, called the Sj>ani/h mciclarel. See Thynnvs 



SrOMBKIl. 



LIMOSANO, in Groj;raphy, a town of Naples, in the 

 county of Molife ; 17 miles N.E. of Molife. 



LIMOSELLA, in Botany, derived from Umus, mud, 

 from the circumllancc of its growing and thriving in muddy 

 pools and ditches. For the fame caufe it lias obtained the 

 Englifli appellation Mudwort. — Linn. Gen. 320. Schrcb. 

 419. Willd. Sp. PL V. 3. 541. Mart. Mill. Did. v. 3. 

 Sm. Fl. Brit. 668. Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. 359. Brown 

 Prod. Nov. Holl. 443. Juff. 96. Lamarck lUullr. t. 53,. 

 .G^rtn. t. JO. — Clafs and order, D'tdyuamla ^ngiofpcrmia. 

 Nat. Ord. Precis, Linn. LyfimachU, JulT. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth of one leaf, five-cIeft, ercft, 

 acute, permanent. Cor. of one petal, bell-fliaped, ereft, 

 equal, five-cleft, acute; divifions fpreading. Stum. Fila- 

 ments four, erect, two of them adhering to the iame fide, 

 •(horter than the corolla ; anthers fimple. Fiji. Germen 

 •fuperior, oblong, obtufe ; flyle fimple, as long as the lla- 

 Tneus, reclining ; ftigma globofe. Feric. Capfiile ovate, 

 half covered -by the calyx, of one cell and two valves. Seeds 

 iljumerous, o^ai. Rccept. ovate, very large. 



Elf. Ch. Calyx five-cleft. Corolla five-cleft, equal. 

 ■Stamens approaching each other in pairs. Caplule with 

 ene cell, two valves, and many feeds. 



I. L. nquatica. Common Mudwort. Linn. Sp. PI. 881. 

 Engl. But. t. 357. Fl. Dan. t. 69. (Spergula perpufilla 

 ianceatis foliolis ; Loes. Pruf 261. t. 81.)— Leaves lanceo- 

 late. — Found in muddy pools where water has been Hand- 

 ing. Dr. Abbot fcnt it to Mr. Sowerby from Bedfordfliire, 

 and Dr. Smith has gathered it on the Denes at Loweib)ft 

 in Suffolk. It flowers in. July and Auguft. — /foo/ annual, 

 creeping. Stems prollrate, cylindrical. Leaves radical, on 

 ■Jong footftiilks, fmooth, entire, not involute. Floiuers 

 finall, fleih-coloured. Calyx fomcwhat irregular, acute, 

 ^fmooth. Capfule with a groove along its upper fide. 



1. L. diandra. Diandrous Mudwort. Linn. Mant. 2J2. 

 "Kccnig — Leaves fomewhat linear. — A native of the Ealf 

 Indies and the Cape of Good Hope. — The habit of this 

 fpecies i« exactly fimilar to that of the lalf , but the plant 

 is only about a fourth as large in all its parts, fo that it 

 in may be confidered as one of the fmalleft of all plants. Stems 

 creeping, fliort. Leaves radical, linear, fcarcely widening 

 in the middle, obtufe. Linnjcus complains that on account 

 of the minutenefs of the Jlowers he could not defcribe them 

 ■from a dried fpecimen, but that the acute difcoverer of this 

 •fpecies, Kocnig, found them to be diandrous. 



3. L. anjlralis. New Holland Mudwort. Brown. Prod. 

 Nov. Holl. 44J. — Leaves fpatulate linear. — We know no- 

 ■thing of this fpecies, but we infert it, on the authority of 

 Mr. Brown, as a native of New Holland, whojuilly obfervcs 

 that all the fpecies (land in need of further invelligation. 

 LIMOUIiS, in Ce-o^raphy, a town of France, in the 



department of tlie Seine and Oife, and chief plare of a can- 

 ton, \u the diftritt of Verfailies ; nine niiies S. of Verlailles. 

 The place contains 858, and the canton 7304 inhabitants, 

 on a territory of 147! kiliometres, in 14 communes 



LIMOUX, a town of France, and principal place of a 

 dillrid, in the department of tiie Aude. N. lat 43 ' 3'. 

 E. long. 2° 18'. The place contains 5142, and the canton 

 J 2, j;6 inhabitants, on a territory of 240 kiliometres, in 

 13 communes. 



LIMPET, in Conchyliolegy. See Patella and Cos- 

 ciioirwiv. 



LIMUS, among the Romans, a garment reaching to the 

 ground, and worn by the priells, who on that account were 

 called Umocindi. 



LINACAGAN, in Geography, one of the iHands in the 

 Eall Indian fca, called Calamianes. N. lat. 1 1 40'. E. 

 long. 120' 10'. 



LINACRE, Thomas, in Biography, an eminent phy- 

 fician, and one of the moft elegant fcliolars of iii.i age, was 

 born at Canterbury about the year 1460. Having com. 

 pleted his fcliool-education, under a very emii.ent mailer, in 

 his native city, he entered at Oxford, and was chofen fel- 

 low of All-Souls' college in 14S4. His defire of farther 

 advancement in learning induced him to accompany his 

 former Ichoolmader, De Selling, into Italy, whither the 

 latter was feiit on an embaffy to the court of Rome by 

 Henry VII. De Selling left him at Bologna, with llrong 

 recommendations to Angelo Poliziano, who was at that 

 time accounted one of the moft elegant Latiniftsin Europe; 

 but whom our young ftudent, by his alTiduous application, 

 at length excelled in the purity of his ilyle in that language. 

 At Florence, Linacre had the good fortune to acquire the 

 favour of that munificent patron of literature, Lorcn-/,o de 

 Medicis, who granted him the privilege of attending the 

 fame preceptors with his own fons. He knew hsw to profit 

 by fuch an opportunity ; and under Demetrius Chalcon- 

 dylas, who had fled from Conllantinople when it was taken 

 by the Turks, he acquired a perfcA knowledge of the 

 Greek language. Thus accompliflied in claffical learning, 

 he went to Rome, and ftudled medicine and natural philolo- 

 phy under Hermolaus Barbarus. He applied particularly 

 to the works of Ariftotle and Galen, and is faid to have been 

 the firft Englifliman who was well acquainted with thofe writers 

 in the original Greek. On his return to England, he took 

 the degree of dottor of phyfic at Oxford, and gave lec- 

 tures on phyfic and taughtg the Greek language in that 

 univerfity. His reputation loon became fo high, that king 

 Henry VII. called him to court, and entrulled him with 

 the care both of the health and education of his fon, prince 

 Arthur. He is faid alfo to have inftrufted princefs Callieriiie 

 in the Italian language. He was made fucceflively pby- 

 lician to the kings Henry VII., Henry VIII., and Edward 

 VI., and to the princefs Mary. 



In the reign of Henry VIII., indeed, he appears to have 

 flood above all ri\liiniip at the head of his profeffion ; and 

 he evinced his attachment to its interells, as well as to the 

 public good, by various acls ; but efpecially bv founding 

 two lectures on phyfic in the univerfity of Oxford, and one 

 in that of Cambridge, and by obtaining the inftitution of 

 the Royal Colleg'^ of I'hyficians in London. He faw with 

 concern, that the praftice of medicine was chiefly engrofl"ed 

 by illiterate monks and empirics, licences being eafily ob- 

 tained by improper perfons, when the bifhops were autho- 

 rifed to examine and licenle praftitioncrs in an art of which 

 they could not be competent judges. Through the intereit 

 of cardinal Wolfey, thcretore, Linacre obtained letters pa- 

 tent iit ijiy from Henry VIII., conllituting a corporiite 



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