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LINTNER, in Biography, an excellent performer on the 

 German flute at Berlin, in 1772, a difciple of the late 

 Frederic If king of Prufiia's flute-mafter, Qiraiitz. 



LINTON, in Geography, a fmall market town in the hun- 

 dred of Chilford. Cambridgefhire, England, is fituated ten 

 miles from Cambridge, and forty-fix from London. The 

 toivn confifts of fevcral irregular llreets, the chief of which 

 is about half a mile in length ; the houfes are principally low 

 and covered with thntch ; for/ie however are of brick, and 

 neatly built. The church is a fpacious (Irudlure, and built 

 with Hints, intermixed with ftone and plafter. It confills of 

 two aiOes, a nave, a chancel, and a large tower. It contains 

 feveral monuments and fepulchral memorials, among which 

 is a handfome mural monument by Wilton, to the memory 

 of Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon, and her brother Peter Sand- 

 ley, efq. A Sunday fchool was recently ellabliflied in this 

 town by the exertions of the Rev. Mr. Filher, the vicar ; it 

 now affords tuition to upwards of an hundred children. A 

 market, principally for corn, is held on Thurfdays ; it was 

 originally on Tuefdays, and was granted in the year 1 245, 

 with an annual fair for three days. The fair has been dif- 

 continued, but two others have been eftabliflied ; one for 

 (heep, and one principally for hiring harveft men. In the 

 reign of Edward III. there was an alien priory at Linton, 

 fubordinate to the abbev of St. Jacutus de Infula in Brit- 

 tany ; being feized for the king in the reign of Henry V., 

 it was given by his fucceflbr to the matter and fellows of 

 Pembroke hall, Cambridge. At Barham alfo, in this parifh, 

 was a priory of Crutched Friars, fo early as the year 1292 ; 

 the fcite was granted by Henry VIII. to Philip Panlh, efq. 

 and afterwards to John Millecent, efq. who was before pof- 

 felTed of the manor. In the Millecents the priory and manor 

 continued till the year 1 740, when John Milliccnt, efq. the 

 laft of the family, died ; his widow, afterwards married to 

 the Rev. C. Lonldale, left her ellates to the matter and fel- 

 lows of Pembroke hall. Barham hall, Mrs. Lonfdale's 

 feat, appears to have been formed out of the conventual 

 buildings : the hall, chapel, and cloifters, ftill remain : it was 

 appropriated, by Mrs. Lonfdale's will, as a country feat for 

 the mailer of Pembroke hall for the time being. In the 

 population return to parliament in the year 1801, the parifh 

 of Linton was ftated to contain 183 houfes, and 1157 in- 

 habitants. Lyfons' Magna Britannia, vol. ii. Beauties of 

 England and Wales, vol. ii. 



LINTZ, a town and citadel of Germany, furrounded 

 with an old wall, and fituated on the E. fide of the Rhine, 

 containing about 600 houfes ; 10 miles S.S.E. of Bonn. 

 N. lat. 50- 54'. E. Icng. 7 14'. — Alfo, a well-built and 

 populous town of Auttria, fcated on the Danube; confift- 

 ing of a (ingle ftreet, with fome annexed fuburbs, in which 

 is the fovereign's citadel, fituated on an eminence, com- 

 manding a fine profpeft. The trade of the town is confi- 

 derable, and it has fairs that poffefs privileges under proper 

 regulations, at Eatter and St. Bartholomew's ; 30 miles 

 S.E. of Paffau. N. lat. 48^ iS'. E. long. 14" 15 . 



LINTZENEGG, a town of Auftria ; 10 miles S. of 

 Zwetl. 



LINUFAR, in Botany, a name ufed by fome of the 

 writers of the middle ages, to exprefs the water-lily. The 

 Arabians gave this genus of plants the name of n'llufar, and 

 this word linufar is only formed of that, by tranl'polmg fome 

 of tlie letters. 



LINUM, in Botany, the Xmi of Diofcorides, Theo- 

 phrailus, and other ancient Greek authors, appears to be 

 derived from Xwji,-, to hold, the fibres of this plant being fo 

 remarkable for their tenacity, that its herbage has always 

 been in the greatell eftimation for the manufacture of Imen 



cloth, whilft its feeds by prefTure afi"ord a valuable oiU 

 (See Fla.X.) — Linn. Gen. j/,3. Schrcb. 206. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. V. I. iyj3. Mart. Mill Dift. v. 3. Sm. Fl. 

 Brit. 342. Prod. Fl. Grace, v. I. 214. Ait. Hort. Kcw. 

 ed. 2. V. 2. 184. Tournef. t. 176. Jiiff. 303. Lamarck 

 Illuttr. t. 2ig. Gsrtn. t. 112. — Clafa and order, Pentan- 

 dria Pftita^ynia. N.it. Ord. Gruinales, Linn. Caryophyl- 

 lacex, Jufi. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of five leaves, lanceo- 

 late, erect, fmali, permanent. Cor. funnel-fliaped ; petals 

 five, oblong, gradually broader towards the upper part, 

 obtufe, much fpreading, large. Stam. Filaments five, awl- 

 (haped, ereCt, the leng:h of the caiy.x ; (alfo five rudi- 

 ments alternating with -heir.) anthers fimple, arrow-fliaped. 

 Pifl. Germen fuperior, ovate ; ftyk-s five, thiead-fiiaped, 

 ereft, as long as the ftamens ; ttigmas fimj.le, reflexcd. 

 Perk. Capfule globofe, bluntly five-lided, of ten cells and 

 ten valves. Seeds folitary, ovate or flattifli, acuminated, 

 fmooth. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx five-leaved. Petals five. Capfule fupe- 

 rior, witii ten valves and ten cells. Seeds folitary. 



In the 14th edition of Linnasus's Syjlema Vegclabilium we 

 meet with twenty-two fpecies oi Litium. Willdcnow has 

 twenty-nine, belides which, four, not mentioned by him, 

 occur in the Hortits Kcwenfis, and one in the Prodromus 

 Florte Gncc<s. But from the litt is to be deduSed L. Ra- 

 dio/a- which is the Radiola millcgrana of Dr. Smith's Flora 

 Britannka, 202. — The genus is divided into two fedlions,- 

 the firtt having alternate, the fecond oppofite^ leaves. — Es- 

 amples of the firft fedlion are 



"L. ufitatiffimum - Common Flax. Linn. Sp. PI, 397. Engl. 



Bot. t. 133-7, Curt. Lond. fafc. 5. t. 22 Calyx-leaves 



ovate, acute, three-nerved. Petals crenate. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, alternate. Stem moftly folitary.— Not uifrequent- 

 in fields throughout the more temperate parts of Europe, in 

 confequence probably of its being a plant of fuch general 

 cultivation, flowering in July. Root annual, fibrous, fmall. 

 Stem erett, round, fmooth, leafy. Leaves entire, three- 

 nerved, fmooth. Floivers on ftalks, erett, of a Iky-b'ue 

 colour. Seeds elliptical, very finning. For the ufes and 

 management of this valuable plant, we need not repeat what 

 is already given under the article Fl.\x. 



L. trigymm Three-ftyled golden Flax. Sm. Exot. Bot. 

 t. 17. iur. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. n. 3. Curt. Mag. 



t. 1 100 Leaves alternate, elliptical, ferratcd, acute. 



Styles tlxree. Capfule of fix cells. — A native of the Eaft 

 Indies, where it was gathered by colonel Hardwicke on the 

 fides of mountains flowering in December. Tl;e natives 

 call it Gul Afiorfte, from its fine golden hue, Ga/fignifying 

 a flower, and /fjborfee a coin of the fame metal current in 

 India, of the value of 2/. tterling. — i'/.-w flirubby. Branches 

 round and leaty. Leaves fmootli, dark green, jointed, on a 

 ihort footltalk. Flowers large and handfome, nearly ino- 

 dorous. 



L. hirj'ulum. Hairy Flax. Linn. Sp. PI. 39S. Willd- 

 n. 4. .lacq. Aiulr. t. 31.— Calyx hirfute, acuminate. 

 Flowers fefi~i!e, alternate. Leaves on the branches oppo-- 

 file. — A native of riuttriaaud Hungary, flowering in June 

 and July. i?oo/ perennial, woody. Stems from a foot and 

 a half to two feet in height, branching towards the top. 

 Leaves lanceolate or ovate, hairy at tlieir edges and on the.* 

 backs, fomctinies nearly fmooth. Floiuers blue ; the petr.ls . 

 fo clofcly united at the bafe as to refemble a moiiopetalous, 

 funnel-fliaped flower. Linmus remarks that this is very 

 cloiely allied to L. iiodijlorum. 



L. hyptrkifelium Mallow-flowered Flax, Curt. Mag. 



t. 104S, 



