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Virgin. There, in his fixty-fcvcnth year, he was poifoned 

 by the relations ot the lady whole favours he was iuppofcd 

 to enjoy. Lorenzo di Mi'dici eroded a marble tomb in the 

 cathedral to his memory, which Aiigelo Politiano adorned 

 with a Latin cpitapli. 



Ln'i'i FiLirro, fou of the former, was renowned for ex- 

 cellent imitations of architeftural ornaments, ile died in 

 150J, at the age of 45. 



Lii'Pl LonKNZO, alio a Florentine painter, born in 1606. 

 He was hkewife a great mullciaM and a poet. In the latter 

 charafter he pubhfhed " II Malmantile racquiftato." He 

 died in 1664. 



LIPPIA, in Botany, was fo named by Houftoun, in ho- 

 nour of A\igullinc Lippi, a French botanifl, as we learn 

 from Linnxus's Critica BoUnica, p. 93. He is alfo men- 

 tioned by Bothmer, in his diifertation di plant'is in ciiltonnn mc- 

 mor'iam nominaUs, as having travelled into Egypt, ai.d as 

 having died in Abvffini.i. — Reliq. Houit. 6. Linn. Gen. 

 32:. Schreb. 399. 'WiUd. Sp. PI. V. 3. 356. Mart. Mill. 

 Diet. V. 3. Micl^aux Boreal. A mer. v. 2. 15. Jacq. Amer. 

 176. Juir. 109. Lamarck Ihillr. t. 539. Gaertn. t. 56.— 

 Clafs and order, Didyr.jinia Gymnofjy.'rmia . Nat. Ord. Stel- 

 late, Linn. Vitkes, JuiT. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of two diftant, acu- 

 minated, keel-fliaped, erecfl, permanent leaves. Cor. of one 

 petal, unequal ; limb divided into four fegments, the upper 

 and lower ones larger, the upper one erect. Stam. Fila- 

 ments four, (horter than the corolla, two of them ihorter 

 than the reft ; anthers fimple. Pifl. Germen fuperior, ovate, 

 compreffed or flattifh ; ftyle thread-fhaped, Handing between 

 the ilamens, and of equal length ; itigma oblique. •Perk. 

 none, except the permanent calyx in which the feeds are 

 enveloped. Seeds two, adhering together, ovate, fomewhat 

 bony, convex on one fide, ratlier fmooth, flat on the other 

 fide, or fomewhat concave, wliitiih. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx four-toothed, two-valved when mature. 



Corolla funnel-fhaped, four-cleft. Seeds enveloped in the 



calyx. 



1. L. amerkana. Linn. Sp. PI. SR3. Reliq. Houft. t. 12. 

 — Heads of flowers forming a pyramid. Leaves ovate, 

 ferrated. — Found by Dr. Houlloun at Vera Cruz, and 

 cultivated by Mr. Miller before 1733- -This is a_/f'r!/i which 

 rifes to a confidcrable height. Stems round, comprefied at 

 their joints. Leaves lanceolate, ovate, rugged. Flowers 

 forming little oblong heads, about the free of a large 

 pea. 



2. L. henufphtrka. Linn. Sp. PI. S83. Jafq. Amcr. 

 t. 179. f. 100. — Heads of flowers hemifpherical. Leaves 

 oblong, entire. — A native of South America. — -Stems eight 

 or ten feet high. Branches woody, bending down uniefs 

 fupported. Leaves oppofile, two or three inches long, 

 fmooth. Flo'Ujers fmall and white. The whole fhrub is 

 odorous and aromatic. 



3. la. hirfuta. Linn. Suppl. 288. Willd. n. 2. (L. um- 

 bellata; Willd. n. 4. Cavan. Ic. 7^.1. 174.) — Heads of 



■ flowers ovate. Leaves oblong, broad, ferrated, downy be- 

 neath. — A native of Mexico and other parts of America. — 

 Stem four-fided, rough with white hairs. Leaves oppofite, 

 long, hair)' above, downy and hoary beneath. Floiuers 

 fmall. 



From examining the Linnsean fpecimcn of L. hirfuta, lent 

 originally by ETcallon, a pupil of Mutis, we are enabled to 

 tlate that L. umbellata of Willdenow and Cavanilles is not 

 a diftinft fpecles. The flowers of that are faid to be of a 

 deep yellow, and v/e find thofe of hirfuta tinged with the 

 £ame colour, in a dried (ialo. As the younger Linnxus faw 



it in no other condition, he appears to have gueffed thctn to 

 be white, but crroneoufly. 



4. L. cymofa. Willd. n. 5. Swartz. Prod. 93. Ind. 

 Occ. V, 2. 1066. (SpirtEK congener, fpinofa, &c. Sloan. 

 Jam. V. 2. 30. t. 174. f. 3 and 4.) — Flowers in cymes. 

 I^earcs ovate, acute, nearly entire. — A native of woody 

 favannahs, in the fouthern parts of Jamaica, flowering in 

 May. — Stems feveral from three to fix feet iiigli, about the 

 fize of a goofe-quill. Leaves almoft round, yellowilh-grcen, 

 fmooth, fceiited like thofe of Penny-Royal. Floivers many 

 together, of the colour and fomewhat refembling thofe of 

 Spiraa Theophrnjli. 



L. ovala. Linn. Syft. Veg. ed. 14. 574. Mant. 89, is 

 properly referred by I'Heritier and Willdenow to Sclago. — 

 Michaux places Verbena Nodiflora of Linnxus in Lippia, 

 though with doubt, and adds another fpecies, L. lanceolata, 

 which we prefume is nearly allied to y notliflora 



LIPPIE, a corn meafure in Scotland ; four lippies being 

 equal to one peck. 



LIPPITUDO, (from %«x, blear-eyed.) The fignifica- 

 tion of this term, iii Surgery, is rather indeterminate. Celfus 

 attaches the fame meaning to it as ophthalmy. Lippitude, 

 or blearednefs, according to Wifeman, is a Hate of the eyes, 

 in which they are dimmed with rheum. We believe that, at 

 prefent, furgeons generally underftand by lippitudu a chro- 

 nic inflammation of the ciliary glands, and of the edges and 

 iiifide of the eye-lids, attended with a fecretion of vifcid 

 matter, by which the eye-lids are glued together during 

 flecp, and cannot be opened in the morning without trouble, 

 pain, and a copious emiilion of tears. The cale is frequently 

 accompanied by more or lefs inflammation of the conjunftiva, 

 and always by a weak impaired fight. In bad calcs, the 

 margins of the eye-lids are lludded with little ulcerations ; 

 the eye-laflies fall off; and either an entropium or an eftro- 

 piiim taking place, the difeafe is rendered more complicated. 

 One of the bell remedies for lippitudo is the unguentum 

 hydrargyri nitrati, a fmall quantity of which is to be applied 

 once or twice every day to the edges and inner furfacts of 

 the eye-lids. Care is to be taken that thele parts Hre well 

 fmeared with the ointment, which Ih.ould be melted in a 

 fpoon, and apphed by means of a camel-hair pencil. Se- 

 veral other ointments will anfwer the purpofe, particularly 

 fuch as contain hydrargyrus nitratus ruber, tutty, Arme- 

 nian bole, &c.; but that above recommended will always 

 anfwer when others will, and very often fuccccds when they 

 will not. The eflFefl; of the ointment may frequently be ad- 

 vantageoufly promoted, by wafhing the eye feveral times a 

 day with a collyrium, compofed of rofe-water ^viij and zin- 

 cum vitriolatum, from gr. x to gr. xx, according to the 

 fenfibility of the organ. 



Writers on furgery mention cafes of difeafe of the ciliary 

 glands, which are faid to depend upon icrofula, a fcorbutic 

 habit, and the venereal difeafe. We cannot vouch for the 

 accuracy of this ilatement, but we think it certain that nu- 

 merous inftances are kept up by conilitutional caufes, which 

 prevent the eflScacy of local applications and fimple me- 

 thods, and often create a necefilty for relorting to intei- 

 nal as well as external treatment. In the examples alluded 

 to, it wasjulUy remarked by Mr. Warner, that the ordinary 

 means will fail uniefs affilled by proper regimen in diet, and 

 alteratives of different kinds, fuch as calomel, Plummer's 

 pills, extraftum cicutK, alkaline abforbents, decodtions of 

 the woods prepared in lime-water, or common water, bark, 

 vinum antimoniale, &c. Coftivenefs is at all times to be pre- 

 vented. Warner alfo approves of applying, in certain cafes, 

 blillers to the head, neck, or betwixt the ihoulders. He 

 thought that they aited not only as ilimulants and eva- 



cu?.nts. 



