L 1 P 



L I P 



fine rich yellow, in terminal heada or umbels. Examples 

 are 



1^. fphtrka. Litin. Mant. 268. Andr. Repof. t. 568. 

 Curt. Mag. t. 1241. — Flowers inimcrous, in brafteated 

 drooping heads. Leaves ellip'ic-lanccolate, ribbed, fmooth. 

 — According to Andrews this was raifed by Mr. Milne, 

 gardener at Fonthill, Wilts. We received it from Mr. 

 Anderfon, curator of the fplendid collcftion of James Vere, 

 efq. at Kenfington Gore. The Jhrub is live or fix feet 

 high, clothed with numerous, fpreading or recurved, glau- 

 cous leaves, above an inch long, entire, and ftrongly ribbed. 

 The large drooping round heads of golden Jlowcrs, are fin- 

 gularly magnificent, accompanied by numerous reddifh 

 braHeeu, differing from the leaves cliiefly in colour and 

 fituation. The whole plant unavoidably turns as black as 

 ink in drying. It bloffoms in May. 



L. gramimfolla. Linn. Mant. 268. — Flowers capitate. 

 Calyx hairy. Leaves linear-lanceolate, fmooth. — Grows in 

 a fandy foil at the Cape. We have feen it in a dry Hate 

 only, nor is any figure extant. The very narrow haves, an 

 inch or inch and u half long, and about a hue wide, are 

 peculiar, as well as the hairy heads aijlowers, much fmaller 

 than thofe of the foregoing. The branches are angular and 

 fmooth. 



LIPARIS, a name given by fomc authors to the pin- 

 guicitla, butter-wort, or Yorkfliire fanicle. 



LiPARIS, in Ichthyology, a fpecies of Cyclopterus ; which 

 fee. 



LiPARis Nojlras, the name of a fmall fifh, common on 

 the coafts of Yorklhire, and fome other parts of England, 

 and called in Englifh the fnail, and limax marinus by fome 

 authors. It is about five fingers long ; on its back and fides it 

 is of a briglit brown, and on the belly of a fine white : thefe 

 are its colours, when frefh taken, for when it has been kept 

 ten or twelve hours, the whole furface of the body, except 

 the fins, becomes of a paler and bright brown. The head 

 is thick, and not flat, but rounded ; it has no teeth, but its 

 jaws are both rough like files. 



The whole fifli, head as well as body, is very foft and 

 unftuous, and eafily melts into a fort of oily liquor. It 

 is caught principally at the mouths of great rivers where 

 they open into the fea. 



LiPAROCELE, from \'T-,:, fat, and y.v.\r, a tumour, 

 in Surgery, any kind of tumour compofed of fat. 



LIPAVINA, m Geography, a town of Croatia; 12 

 miles E.N.E. of Creutz. 



LIPCZANI, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 

 Braclaw ; 60 miles W.S.W. of Braclaw. ^ Alfo, a town of 

 Moravia, on the Pruth ; 24 miles S.S.E. of Choczim. 



LIPENIUS, Martin, in Biography, a German Lu- 

 tberan divine, known only by his works, which are " On 

 the Navigation of Solomon's Ships to Ophir," 1661 ; " A 

 Treatife on Chriilmas-Boxes or New-Year's Gifts :" but 

 his moft important work is entitled " Bibliotheca Realis," 

 in 6 vols, folio ; confifting of a view of all the fubjefts into 

 which the different fciences ars branched, with a catalogue 

 of the names and works of the various authors who have 

 treated concerning them. Moreri. 



LIPES, in Geography, a town of Peru, and capital of 

 a jurifdiftion, under the N-iceroy of Buenos Ayres ; 150 

 miles S.S.W. of Potofi. S. lat. 21^40'. W. long. 68 ' 

 16'. 



LIPETSK, a town of RulTia, in the government of 

 Tambov, on the Voronez ; 40 miles W.N.W. of Tambov. 

 N. lat. 53'. E. long. 40' 24'. 



LIPETZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Konigin- 

 jratz ; 9 miles S. of Neu Biezow, 



LIPINSKOI, a town of Rulfia, in the government of 

 Novgorod ; 16 miles S.E. of Novgorod. 



LIPNISKI, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 

 Wilna ; 20 miles E.N.E. of Lida. 



LIPNITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Czaflau ; 

 6 miles W. of Teutfch-Brod. 



LIPNO, a town of the duchy of Warfaw ; 12 miles N. 

 of Dobrzyii. 



LIPODERMUS, or Leipodermos, (from Xhtu, to 

 leave, and iipua, the Jim,) in Surgery, wanting the prepuce. 



LIPORANO, m Geography, a town of Naples, in the 

 province of Otranto ; 3 miles S. of Tarento. 



LIPOTHYMIA, or LipopSYCHlA, in Medicine, from 

 ^!lTw, deficio, and Si/juoj, animus, or vLi/j^r;, anitna, fignifies a 

 fudden faintnefs, or temporary deficiency of the nervous 

 power, and of all the funftions depending upon it. It is 

 called alfo deliquium animi, fwooning, fyncopc, &c. See 

 Syncopk. 



LIPOWE, in Geography, a town of Lithuania ; 25 miles 

 N.N.E. of Braclaw. 



LIPOWIEC, a town of Auftrian Poland, on the Vif- 

 tula, to which belongs a caftle on a rock, ufed as a prifon 

 for ecclefiaftical offenders ; 20 miles W. of Cracow. 



LIPPA, a town of Hungary, on the Maros ; 22 miles 

 N. of Temefwar. 



LIPPE-Shaumbrrg, AVilliam, Count, in Biography, 

 fon of Albert Wolfgang, ceunt Lippe and Shaumberg, 

 by a daughter of count Oynhaufen, was born in 1724 

 at London, but was fent, in 1735, to Geneva, to complete 

 his education. Here he devoted much of his time to the 

 ftudy of mathematics, as connected with the military art. 

 In 1740 he returned with his brother, ar.d in the following 

 year they were both fent to the univerfity of Leyden, from 

 which they removed in a ftlort time to MontpcUier, in France. 

 At the age of eighteen he repaired to England, and obtained 

 an enfign's commiflion in the firft regiment of guards. On 

 the death of his elded brother he returned to Buekebourg, 

 the family refidcnce, in Germany, and foon after accompanied 

 his father, a lieutenant-general in the Dutch fervice, during 

 the campaign in the Netherlands, and was prefent as a vo- 

 lunteer at the battle of Dettingen, where he was diftin- 

 guilhed as well for his good conduft as for his bravery. In 

 the year 1745 he joined the Auftrian army in Italy, and was 

 promoted, in confequence of his fervices, to be a colonel in 

 the Auftrian army, but he declined adling under the commif- 

 fion. In 1746 he travelled over a confiderable part of the 

 continent, and from thence he came to England, where he 

 remained till he fucceeded to his paternal eftates in 1748, 

 when he repaired to Berlin, to furrendcr into the hands of 

 his Pruflian majefty the order of the Black Eagle, which 

 had been conferred on his father. Here he formed an ac- 

 quaintance with many perfons of diftinguifhed literary merit, 

 and he was elefted a member of the .Academy of Sciences. 

 After this he was diftinguiftied as a military man in the Pruf- 

 fian army, raifed a regiment of grenadiers from among his 

 own fubiefts, and was honoured by Frederic with the order 

 of the Black Eagle. In 1754 he etlabliftied a foundery at 

 Buekebourg, where he had all the cannon call which he af- 

 terwards employed in the feven yeari' war againft the 

 French. In 1756 he entered into a treaty with Great 

 Britain, by which he engaged to alTift liis Britannic majefty 

 in the defence of his German dominions againft the arms of 

 the French, and to furnifti for that purpofe a regiment of 

 infantry of a t>lioufand men, a corps of artillery, and another 

 of carbineers and chaffeurs. He was prefent at the battle 

 of Minden, and in many other pofts of much danger. In 

 1 7 j8 he was ordered to withdraw his forces from the allied 



army. 



