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colour. On the- fides mod expofed to tlie weather they are 

 eaten into the femblance of honeycomb. The reniairjs of 

 the priory and ofnces lie on the foiith fide. The in(idc of 

 their walls i.s built of whin-ftone, obtained from a rock 

 ■which forms a lofty natural pier on the foutli fliore of the 

 idand. The pedeilal of fit. Cuthbert's crofs, anciently 

 held in great veneration, and now called the pellingjlone, is 

 . fitiiated a Ihort way to the eaft. When a bride cannot itep 

 the length of it, the fuperftitious reckon it ominous of fu- 

 ture unhappinefs in the marriage ftate. The parifli church 

 is a plain but fpacious (Irufture, having feniicircular arches 

 «n the one fide and pointed ones on the other. The win- 

 dows are long and narrow. The caifle ilands upon a lofty 

 whin-ftone rock on the fouth-eaft portion of the illand. At 

 the commencement of the civil wars it was garrifoned by 

 the king's forces, but (hortly after, fell into the hands of 

 the parliament. The Pretender attempted to obtain pof. 

 felfion of it in the year 1 7 15. A detachment of invahds 

 is now ufually ftationed here. Hodgfon's Beauties of 

 Northumberland, 8vo. 181 1. 



LINDO, a town, or rather the remains of a town, in 

 the illand of Rhodes, anciently called Lindus, the native 

 place of Cleobulus, one of the feven wife men of Greece, 

 and of Chares, who made or at leall began the famous co- 

 lolTus, confecrated to the fun, and the fcite of a magnifi- 

 cent temple dedicated to Minerva. This temple is faid to 

 have been built by Danaus, king of Egypt, on landing 

 here in his fligh.t from his own kingdom. A teftival was 

 celebrated here, not with bleffings and prayers, but, as 

 Laftantius fays, with curfes and imprecations ; infoniuch 

 that if a good word efcaped from any perlon prefent, it 

 was deemed a bad omen, and the ceremony was begun anew. 

 The velliges of this city, called L'wdo, are feated in a ham- 

 let nearly in the middle of the E. fide of the illand, and 

 altogether peopled by Greeks ; its harbour, though far 

 from being fpacious, is niucli frequented by the fmall craft 

 of the country ; which there take in the commodities of the 

 iQand and bring thither merchandife from other parts. Ac- 

 cordingly ahnoft all the inhabitants of Lindo are addicted 

 to commerce, or to the carrying trade of the neighbouring 

 coafls and iflands ; they navigate with fmall lall-faihng 

 veflels conftrutled by themfelves, and to which they give 

 greater folidity than the Ihips which come oft the itocks of 

 Rhodes, on account of government. A few Lindians alfo 

 employ themfelves in rural labours, but as the part of the 

 ifland which they inhabit is lefs capable of tillage than any 

 other parts, on account of its ftony foil, their culture prin- 

 cipally confifts of plantations of vines, fig-trees, and iuch 

 others; 14 miles S.S.W. of Rhodes. N. lat. 36 17'. 

 E. long 27' ^8'. Sonnini. 



LINDON, a fmall ifiand on the W,. fide of the gulf of 

 Bothnia. N. lat. 60 5^'. E. long. j6 57'. 



LINDOW, a town of Brandenburg, in the Middle 

 Mark; 33 miles N.N.W. of Berhn. N. lat. 52 57'. E. 

 long. 13 . — Alio, a town of Brandenburg, in the Middle 

 Mark ; 8 miles S.S.W. of Franckfort on the Oder. 



LINDSjEA, in Botany, a genus of ferns, fo named by 

 the late Mr. Dryander, after Mr. John Lindlay, " an 

 affiduous and feillful botanift of Jamaica,'' author of a 

 paper, printed in the Tranfaftions of the Linnxan Soc. 

 V. 2. 9J, on the germination and raifing of ferns from the 

 feed ; as well as of another paper, in the fame vol. p. 313, 

 concerning the raifing of feveral other cryptogamic plants 

 in the fame manner. Dryandr. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 3. 39. 

 Sm. Mem. de I'Acad. de Turin, v. 5. 413. t. 9. f. 4. 

 Trafts on Nat. Kift. 242. t. i. f. 4. Swartz. Fil. 118. 

 Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. i. J5G. -Ciafs and order, 



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Ciyptcamla Fili:?!. Nat. Ord. Filices dorffirx, Lins* 

 Juil. 



Gen. Ch. Capfules annulated, in continued, nearly mar- 

 ginal, lateral or ti-rminal, lines, twaohtcrum ariling from 

 the furface of the leaf, membranous, continued, entire or 

 flightlv ercnate, at length reflexcd, permanent. 



Etl".' Ch. FruBifcatlm in continued, nearly marginal, 

 lines. Infolucrum from the furface of the leaf, continued, 

 feparating at the fide towards the margin. 



Nine ipecies are defcnbed in Mr. Dryander's origin:^ 

 eflfay, to which five are added by Dr. Swartz, one by M. 

 Labillardiere and one by Mr. Brown. 



I. L.. fayjtlata. Dryandr. n. i. (Adiantiim fagittatum ; 

 Aubl. Guian. 964. t. 366 ) — Frond fimple, arrow or heart- 

 fhapcd, with a taper point. — Native of woods and fiiTurei 

 of rocks in Guiana. The roct is creeping, bearing five or 

 iix fronds in a clufter, near a fpan high ; ihejalis black and 

 fhmmg ; leaf fmooth, with dichotomous veins all fpringing 

 from its bale where the ftalk is infcrted ; line of fruftifica- 

 tion about a Itraw's breadth from the edge. 



■2. L. renformis. Dryandr. n. 2. Tr. of Linn. Soc. 

 V, 3. t., 7. f. I. — Frond fimple, kidney-lhaped, obtufe. — 

 Native of Guiana and Surinam. - Much lilie the laft, of 

 which we are inclined to fuipecl it a variety. 



3. L.. enffoHa. Swartz n. 3.- Frond pinnate; leaflets 

 alternate, "fword-lhaped. — From the ifland of Mauritius. 

 We have what anfwers to this charafter, from Madagafcar ; 

 but if right, it is very nearly allied to the following. 



4. L. Lviceolata. Brown, n. 2. Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 2. 

 98. t. 248. f. 1. — Frond pinnate ; le.itlets alternate, linear- 

 lanceolate, fometimes pinnatifid ; ftalk fquare. — Found by 

 Labillardiere at Van Diemen's land ; by Mr. Brown in the 

 tropical part of New Holland. Each leafld is about one 

 and a half inch or two inches long, nearly felTiie. If the dicho- 

 tomous form, and great diftance of the lateral veins from 

 each other, which are very remarkable characters in La- 

 billardiere's plate, be correct, this fpecies is effentially 

 diltinCt from the laft, whofe veins compofe an uniform fort 

 of network, interbranching with each other over the whole 

 difli of the leaf. ' 



J. L.. grand folia. Frond pinnate; leaflets pppofite, ellip- 

 tic-lanceolate, pointed. Fructification lialf way between 

 the rib and the margin. — Gathered in Malacca. — We know 

 this merely from a pencil flvetch taken by the younger Lin- 

 ncEUS, marked with the native country of the plant, and a 

 note faying it " probably conftitutes a new genus, of which 

 Aublet's tab. 365 and 366, and an yldiaiilum of Smcath- 

 man's, are other Ipecies." This was perhaps written at fir 

 Jof. Banks's; but if fo, we cannot account for Mr. Dry- 

 ander's having omitted this fpecies, which appears to be 

 one of the moil rem.arkable of the whole number. The 

 /ron(/ confifts of Iwo pair of oppofite, (lightly ftalk ed, leaflets, 

 three or four inches long, with a terminal one ftiU longer. 

 A fine of fruftification lies midway between the rib and 

 the margin, on each fide of the former; but none of the lines 

 e.'itend either to the baie or the fummit, by near an inch. 



6. L. linearis. Swartz n. 4. 318. t. 3. f. 3. — ^Frond pin- 

 nate, linear; leaflets very numerous, fau-ftiaped, finely cre- 

 nate and fruftifying a; their outer edge. — Native of various 

 parts of New Holland. We have it from Port Jackfon. 

 About a foot high, with a dark polifiiedy/j/i, tapering and 

 zigzag at the bafe. The leajets are imperfedly oppofite, 

 deflexed, fmall, broad and very ftiort, fo as to give a re- 

 markable narrownefs to the fliape of the whole frond. 



7. L.falcata. Dryander. n. 3. t. 7. f. 2. —Frond pinnate; 

 leaflets fomewhat crcfcent-lhaped, entire, wavy,— Gathered 

 by Aublet in Guiana.— About a foot high, with feveral 



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