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pair of ratlier clofe leaflets, each about an inch long, (lightly 

 falcate backward, wavy at their upper edge, along which 

 runs the line of frudilication. The terminal leajlet is irre- 

 gularly fhaped. 



8. L. hdcrophylla. Dryjndr. n. 4. t. 8. f. i. - Frond pin- 

 nate; leaflets entire or ferratcd; the lower ones fomewhat rhom- 

 boid-lanceolate, pointed; the upper rhomboid and very ob- 

 tufe ; the upperinoll confluent. — Gathered by Mr. Robert- 

 fon at Malacca. A fpan high, with very various, lliglilly 

 dirtant leaflets, the longeft of which meafure fcarcely an inch. 



9. L. iullreila. Swartz. n. 7. (Adiantum cultratum ; 

 Willd. Phytogr. fafc. I. 14. t. 10. f. 2.) Frond pinnate ; 

 leaflets oblong, obtufe, wavy at their upper margin ; the 

 terminal one elongated jagged. Native of the coait of Ma- 

 labar. —i^roW about five inclies high, with a green _//«//■, 10 

 or 12 pair of alternate, (lalked, horizontal leaflets, and a fingu- 

 larly jagged, elongated, upright terminal one. 



10. h. flabellulata. Dryandr. n. 5. t. 8. f. 2. — Frond pin- 

 nate ; leaflets fan-fliaped, finely toothed ; the lower ones of 

 the old plants compound. Native of China, Macao, and 

 Sumatra The leaflets are almolt femicircular at their fructi- 

 fying edge, whicii ilands outwards, not upperinolt. 



11. h. trapeziformis. Dryandr. n. 6. t. 9. —Frond doubly 

 pinnate ; leaflets quadrangular, abrupt ; the lowermolt: fan- 

 ftiaped.— Gathered in Grenada by Smeathman ; fee our n. j. 

 — A large and handfome fern, each branch of whole frond 

 confills of above a dozen pair of oblong quadrangular 

 leaflets, frutlifying at their upper and outer margins. 



12. L.. guiatietifls. Dryandr. n. 7. (Adiantum guianenfe ; 

 Aubl. Guian. 962. t. 365.)— Frond doubly pinnate j its 

 branches fpreading, tapering ; leaflets crowded ; the lower 

 lunate; middle ones fquare ; upper fan-fhaped. — Gathered 

 by Aublet at the bottoms of little hills in the forefts of 

 Guiana. This is a very handfome/rt-n, two or three feet high, 

 ■with a longifli JIa/i, and about fix pair of nearly oppofite, 

 tapering, widely fpreading branches, each compofed of in- 

 numerable, crowded, light green leeiflets, more or lefs rounded 

 in their upper or fore-part, which is bordered nith a broad 

 brown line of truftificatioii. 



13. L.. JlriSa. Dryandr. n. 8. Swaitz Ind. Occ. 1722, 

 (Adiantum llriclum ; Swartz Prodr. 135.) — Frond 

 doubly pinnate ; branches ereft, contrafted ; leaflets tra- 

 peziform.— Native of .Tamaica, Porto Rico, and Panama. 

 —No figure of this fpecies has yet appeared. 



14. 1^. media. Brown n. 3.- Frond doubly pinnate ; del- 

 toid ; leaflets obovato-rhomboid, coriaceous ; the lower 

 ones lobed ; the rell entire ; with a folitary uninterrupted 

 line of fructification at the fore edge ; the barren ones fer- 

 rated at the top ; ftalk fquare — Gathered by Mr. Brown in 

 the tropical pare of New Holland. 



15. L. trichomamidcs. Dryandr. n. 9. t. II. — Frond 

 doubly pinnate ; leaflets membranous, bnear-clubfhapcd, 

 abrupt. — Gathered at Duflcy bay, New Zeeland, by Mr. 

 A. Manzies. A delicate fpecies, a fpan high, with (lender 



'creeping downy roots, and fmooth hrov-njlalh. The leajlets 

 vary in fize and breadth, but are nearly wedge-fliaped, de- 

 current and confluent, of a light green colour and fomevvhat 

 membranous texture, fo as much to refemble a Trkhomanes 

 or Hymenophytlum ; their fummit abrupt, crenate or jagged. 

 Line of fruciificiition fometimes very ihort ; the involutrum 

 broadifti, fcarcely ever reflexcd, but finally deciduous, along 

 with the capfules. 



16. L. tenera. Dryandr. n. 10. t. 10. — Frond triply pin- 

 nate, triangular ; leaflets obovate, fomewhat rhomboid, 



.^ut. — Native of the Eaft Indies ; fent to fir Jofeph Banks 

 by the Moravian miffionaries from the ifland of Nicobar. 

 il appears to us as truly pinnate as any of the others, rather 



than pinnatifid, though the ultimate divifions, or leajlets, are 

 decurrent ; ihefe are broader and more rounded than in tlic 

 lail, as well as lobed or cut. 



17. L. mierophylla. Swartz n. 14. 319. —Frond lanceo- 

 late, trJply pinnate ; leaflets wedge-lhapcd, dilated and cre- 

 nate at the top. Gathered near Port .lackfon, New South 

 Wales, by Dr. White. This elegant fpecies is a foot and 

 a half, or more, in height j the whole frond of a narrow 

 lanceolate figure, with flender, lax, pinnate branches, and 

 fmall, light green dotted leajlets, which are wedge-lhaped, 

 tapering at the bafe, always crenate at the fummit, as is alfo 

 the involucrtim. Every leaflet is fuddenly dilated oppofite to 

 eac\i end of the frudlifying line. 



Tlic three lad fpecies are naturally allied to the 'genus 

 Davallia (fee that article), with which they agree as to habit, 

 and occafionally even in the fhort round ligure of their 

 fructification and involncrum, which in general however are 

 continued in a fubmarginal line. 



LINDSAY, John, in Biography, a learned nonjuring 

 divine, who was educated at St. Mary-Hail, Oxford. He 

 had a congregation in London, among whom he regularly 

 ofRciated, and was employed by Mr. Bowyer as a corrector 

 of the prefs. He tranflated Mafon's " Vindication of the 

 Church of England;'' and wrote "A Short Hiltory of 

 the Royal Succeflion ;" and " Remarks on Whillon's Scrip- 

 ture Politics.'" He died in 1768, aged 82. 



Lindsay, 5/r David, a Scotch poet, was a native of 

 the county of Fife, and educated at the univerfity of St. 

 Andrews. He was at the battle of Pavia, and on his re- 

 turn to Scotland James V. appointed him mailer of the 

 herald's office. He wrote feveral poems, fome of which 

 have been printed, particularly his Sa'ires on the Clergy. 

 He died in 1557, aged 61. There was another of this 

 family named David likewife, who was born about the year 

 1527 : he was a zealous promoter of the reformation, and 

 died in 1592. He wrote the Hillory of Scotland from 1437 

 to 1 ^42. 



LINDSEY, Theopiiii.us, was born at Miudlewich, 

 in Chefhire, June 20th, 1723, old ilyle. His father, 

 Mr. Robert Lindley, was an opulent proprietor of the 

 falt-works in that neighbourhood ; his mother's name was 

 Spencer, a younger branch of the Spencer family, in the 

 county of Buckingham. Thcophilus was the fecond of 

 three children, and f ) named after his godfather, Thcophi- 

 lus, earl of Huntingdon. He received the rudiments of 

 grammar learning at Middlewich, and from his early attach- 

 ment to books, and the habitual feriouinels of his mind, he 

 was intended by his mother for the church. He loll fome 

 time by a change of ichools, till he was put under the care 

 of Mr. Ijarnard of the free-ichool of Leeds, under whom he 

 made a rapid progrefs in clafTical learning. At the age 

 of eighteen he was admitted of St. John's college, Cambridge, 

 where, by exemplary dihgence and moral conduft, he obtained 

 the entire approbation of his tutors. As ioon as he had finifhed 

 his lludies at college, taken his firll degree, and had been 

 admitted to deacon's orders, he was nominated by fir George 

 Wheeler to a chapel in Spital fquare, London. Soon after 

 this, he was, by the recommendation of the earl of Hunt- 

 ill^;don, appointed domeftic chaplain to Algernon, duke 

 of Somerfet. The duke, from a great regard for his merit, 

 determined to procure him a high rank in the church, but 

 an early death deprived Mr. Liudfey of liis illuilrious pa- 

 tron. In 1754, he accompanied the prefent duke of Nor- 

 thumberland to the continent, and on his return he fupplied, 

 for fome time, the temporary vacancy of a good living in the 

 north of England, called Kirkby-Wilk : here he became ac- 

 quainted with Mr. archdeacon Blackburne, and in 1 760 mar- 

 ried 



