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LINCTUS, a form of medicine, the fame as lamhatlve, 

 ioboch, and eclegma. 



LINDA, in Geography, a fraall ifland in the Indian fea, 

 n«ar t!ie coal' of Africa, at the n^outu of the Zarrbefe. 



LINDAHL, a town of Norway; 140 miles N. of Chrif- 

 tiania. 



LINDANUS, William, in Biography, a celebrated 

 Dutch divine, was born at Dort, in Holland, in the year 

 152J. He pnrfued his academic 4 ftudies at Louvain, and 

 afterwards went to France to pcrfetl himfelf in the Greek 

 and Hebrew lariguages. Havmjr returned to Lou%-ain,_he 

 was ordained a prieil, and admitted a licentiate in divinity. 

 This was in the yenr 1552, and in the following ye^r he un- 

 dertook the ofEce of leAurer on ihe facred fcriptures at Dil- 

 liii;ien, which poll he filled for tiiree years with high reputa- 

 tion. H'» took his degree of D.D. in I5j6, after which 

 he was appointed dean of the Hague ; counfellor to the 

 .king ; vicar to the bifuop of Utrecht, and inquifitor of the 

 faith within the fame ecclefiailical jurifdidion. On account 

 of his great zeal in the latter office, the duties of which he 

 performed with miich feverity, he was nominated, by the 

 bigotted Philip II. of Spain, to the bilhopric of Rurc- 

 mond. In 1568 he went to Rome, and was received by 

 pope Gregory XIII. and the cardina's with Angular 

 murks of refpeft and efteem. On his return he exercifed 

 the fundlions of a Chrillian bifhopin a very honourable man- 

 ner, applying the revenues of his fee to the relief of the in- 

 digent, aad vifiting every part of his diocefe for the pur- 

 pofe of perfonally comforting, inilrufting, and alTilling thofc 

 who ftood in need of temporal or fpiritual aid. After a fe- 

 cond journey to Rome, he was appointed, in ij8S, to the 

 bilhopric of Ghent, an office which he held but three months, 

 when he died in the fixty-third year of his ag'^. He was 

 reckened a very learned man and an abl* divine. His 

 writings are numerous, confifting of Polemical treatifes ; 

 Paraphrafes on many of the Pfalms, and the Pfalter, il- 

 liiftrated with Greek and Hebrew texts : but his moll valued 

 publication is entitled " Panopha Evanp-elica.'' Moreri. 



LINDAR, in Geography, a town of Illria ; J miles 

 N.E. of Mittenburg. 



LINDAU, an imperial city of Germany, feated on an 

 ifland in the lake of Conftance, and communicating with the 

 continent by means of a bridge. The ifland is fo divided by 

 an arm of the lake, as to form another fmaller ifland, which 

 is feparated from the city, and conliftsof vineyards and gar- 

 den enclofed within a wall. Lindau, from its peculiar fitua- 

 tion, has been called the Venice of Swabia. Moll of the 

 burghers are Lutherans, This city contains, befides a parilh 

 church dedicated to St. Stephen, a well-;'ndowed hofpital, 

 and a grammar-fchool. The callle, and Heyden Maur, or 

 Heathen wall, as it is called, are reckoned Roman works ; 

 the latter being afcribed to Tiberius Nero, and the former 

 to Conllanlinus Chlorus, during their encampments here, in 

 their expeditions againft the Vindelici and Alemanni. It is 

 fuppofed that near this callle formerly flood a cliurch, and 

 that the little church of St. Peter here was built on the firll 

 introduttion of Chridianity into this country. The territory 

 of Lindau comprehends 14 villages ; 19 miles E. of Con- 

 ftance. N. lat. 47- 28'. E. long. 10' 35'. — Alfo, a town 

 <ind callle of Hungary ; 17 miles N.NAV. of Cfakatluirn. 

 — Alfo, a town of Weftphalia, in the territory of Eichfeld, 

 ■jituated on the Rhine ; 1 2 miles N W. of Duderlladt. — 

 .Alfo, a town of Germany, in the principahty of Anhalt 

 Zerbll ; 5 miles N. of ZerblK — Alfo, a town of Germany, 

 in the principality of Bayreuth ; 8 miles N.W. of Bdyrenth. 



LINDE, or Lis'desrf.rg, a town of Sweden, in Well- 

 manknd, filuated between two lakes ; built by q^uccn Chnf- 



a medicinal fpring ; 

 N. lat. 59° 35'. E. 



8r miles 



long. 14'^ 

 circar of 



tina in 1644 ; near it is 

 W.N.W. of Stockholm. 



56'- 



LINDEAL, a town of Hindooilan, in the 



Cuddaiia ; 25 mileiN. of Gandicotta. 



LIXDECK, a town of the duchy of Siiria ; Smiles 

 N. of Cilley. 



LINDEN, a town of Gci-many, in the. principality of 

 Culmbach ; 6 miles N. of Neuftadt. 



LINDENAU, a town of Pruffia, in the palatinate of 

 Thorn ; 20 miles N.E. of Culm. — Alfo, a town of Siiefia, 

 in the principality of Neifle ; 6 miles N.W. of Patfchkau. 



LINDENBERG, a town of Germany, in the princi- 

 pality of Bavreuth ; 9 miles E.S.E. of Bayreuth. 



LINDENBRUCH, Frederic, m Biogrsphy,A]ezraed 

 philologiil of the feventeenth centurj', was a liative of 

 Flanders, and died in 1658. Fie wrote notes on Terence, 

 on the fragmente of certain Latin poets, and on Ammiant:.s 

 Marcellinus. He alfo publiflied " Codex Legum-Antiqua- 

 rum, feu Leges Wifigothorum, Burgundionum, Longo- 

 bardorum, &c." which is eft;eem.'d a very curious vmfk. 

 Moreri. 



LINDENFELS, in Geography, a town of Gennany, 

 in the palatinate of the Rhine; 14 miles N.N. E., of 

 Manheim. 



LINDENHARDT, a town of Germany, in the prin- 

 cipality of Bayreuth ; 9 miles S. of Bayreuth. 



LINDER, a town of Illria; 12 miles N.N.E. cf 

 Pedena. 



LINDERA, in Botany, a name dedicated by Thua- 

 berg to the memory of John Linder, a phy.lcian at Stock- 

 h.lni, afterwards ennobled bv the name ot Lindellolpe, whu 

 was born in the year 1678, and died in 1724. He was a 

 celebrated Swedifh botaniit, and author of the Flora WiLJher- 

 genfis, publifhed at Stockholm in 1728. His inaugural 

 thefis " de Hefper'idum pomh" was publilhed at Abo :a 

 1702. About fix years afterwards appeared his treatiie 

 " de Venenis" printed at Leyden ; a pollhumous editioi 

 of which was publillied at Leipfic in 1739, under the direc- 

 tion of M. Stenzclius. This is faid to be a mallerly difler- 

 tation on vegetable poifons. — He was alfo the author of aR 

 effay upon the colouring properties of feveral Swedifli 

 plants, particularly of fome Lichens. — Thunb. Jap. 9. Nov. 

 Gen. 64. Schreb. 232. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 230. JulT. 429. 

 Lamarck lUullr. t. 263. — Clafs and order, Hexandria Mo- 

 nogynia. Nat. Ord. Incerttt fedis, JulT. 



Gen. Ch. CaL Perianth none. Cor. Petals fix, ovate, 

 obtufe. Stam. Filaments fix, many times (horter than the 

 corolla ; anthers very Imall. Pifi. Germen fuperior, ovate, 

 fmooth ; llyle erect, a little Ihorter than the corolla ; ftig- 

 mas two, reflexed. Perk Capfule of two cells. Seeds 



EIT. Ch. Corolla of lix petals. Capfule of two cells. 



I. L. vmbellata. Thunb. Japon. 145. t 21. Linn. Syft. 

 Veg. ed 14. 339. (Kuro Nosji ; Ksmpf. Anicen. 908.) 

 Found on the mountains of Japan, flowering in April and 

 May. — Stem ftirubby, branc!i.?d, fpreading .ind weak. 

 Branches alternate, zigzag, fmooth. Z-Mx;fj tlullered at the 

 extremity of the branches, on footftalks, oblong, acute, un- 

 divided, about an inch long ; fmooth and green above ; 

 hairy and paler beneath. Flowers terminal, in Cmple, many- 

 flowered umbels. 



Thunberg informs lis that the .Taponefe make fmall 

 brulhes of the wood ■of this plant for cleaning tlie teeth. 



LiNDF.R.i is alfo the name of a genus in Adanfon, Fi- 

 millcs dcs Plantes, v. 2. 499, by which he feems to have ia- 

 tended to honour Dr. Lmdern. (See LindeRSI.^.) Hil 

 plant appears to be a CharophyHuti. 



M^ LINDtR. 



