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Tliis fpecies is iV.id to bloffom in the ftove at Kcvt in June 

 and July. Little or no bitternefs is perceptible in the drii-d 

 Ipecimen. 



L. cordifollus. Linn. Mant. 43. Browne t. 9. f. 2, is 

 probably but a mere vafiety, having (horter, and pcrfeiStly 

 ■heart-fliaped leaves, which, in our fpecimcn from Brownt, 

 are ratlier more downy, as well as the branches. 



L. latifolius. Suartz. Ind. Occ. v. I. 34S. never feen by 

 us, is not by his account very clearly dillingniilied from 

 thefe ; for lotigifolhts certainly has, by no means, " very long 

 ttower-ftalks, widely fpreading at their diviiions," whicli he 

 attributes to it, but rather ftalks " fimply thrce-.''orked, 

 fcarcely longer than the leaves," fuch as he defcribes in his 

 latifolius. 



lu. glaucifoUus. Jacq. Coll. v. i. 64. Ic. Rar. t. 33. — Ca- 

 lyx taper-pointed, as long as the tube. Leaves elliptic- 

 oblong, feffile, glaucous, fmooth. Stem round. — This 

 feems to agree fufficiently in genus with the above, though 

 its calyx appears not to be keeled. The root is perennial. 

 Stem! herbaceous, annual, (lender, nearly hmple. Flowers 

 purplilh-bl'.ie, on very long limple ftalks. ItbloCTomed witii 

 .lacqiiin in the Hove, from July to September, but he knew 

 not its native country. 



L. alatiis. Aubl. Guian. v. i. 204. t. 80. — Leaves elhptic- 

 oblong, tapering at each end, fmooth. Stem fquare, winged. 

 Segments of the calyx rounded. Corolla declining. — Ga- 

 thered by Aublet in cultivated as well as wafte ground in 

 Guiana and Cayenne. One of his fpecimens before us has 

 the habit of a Clielone. Its calyx is blunt and rounded. 

 Corolla declining, as well as \.\k fiamens and Jlyle, and fome- 

 what irregular. The plant is faid to be bitter, and its qua- 

 lities deobitruent. 



L. cheknoliles. Linn. Siippl. 134. — Leaves oblong, flightly 

 confluent at the bafe, fmooth. Stem round, without wings. 

 Branches of the panicle racemofe. Calyx rounded. — Sent 

 to Linnxns from Surinam, and marke(i No. 141. in the 

 Plantit Surinamenfes. It is fo like a Chelotie or Pcntjlemon, 

 that LinniEus actually took it for fuch. His fon afterwards 

 referred it to Lifiantlnis, miftaking it for the above fpecies 

 of Aublet, from which it differs in the roundy/cm, deltitute 

 of wings ; more elongated and racemofe flowering-branches ; 

 and nearly ftraight regular coro/Za. 



1^. glalter. Linn. Suppl. 134. Sm. Ic. ex Herb. Linn. 

 t. 29. (L. frigidus ; Svvartz. Ind. Occ. v. i. 352.) — Smooth. 

 Leaves ovate, llalked, acute. Flowers fomevvhat corym- 

 bofe. Stem fquare below. — Native of South America and 

 Jamaica. A large and handfome herbaceous plant, with 

 yeWow Jloiuers , whofe corolla is regular and dilated. The 

 iegments of the calyx are indeed more rounded and obtufe 

 in the Jamaica fpecimens than in thofe of Mutis, but we 

 cannot think that difference effential, every other part being 

 fo alike in both. The lower portion of the Jlem is wanting 

 in Miitis's fpecimen, which cauled that part to be defcnbed 

 as round, the branches being fo, as well as in Swartz's. 



L. exfertus. Swart/.. Ind. Occ. v. i. 346. -Leaves ovato- 

 lanceolate, on longifli Italks. Calyx taper-pointed. Sta- 

 mens and llyle much longer than the corolla. — Native of 

 the cloud-capped fuinmits ot the Blue Mountains of Ja- 

 maica. Szvart-z. It is iaid to have been alive at Kew, but 

 not to have flowered. Tliey/f/n is flirubby. Leaves nume- 

 rous, elliptic-lanceolate, tapering at each end, fmooth, on 

 (lender footllalks from half an inch to an inch long. Flowers 

 rather fmall, in three-forked compound panicles ; remark- 

 able for the very long, (lender, projecling orijans of frufti- 

 ficatioii. If this fpecies be carefully conlidered, it will 

 perhaps be found to conciliate, in fome meaiure, the dif- 

 ferences bctweeu the difcordant ones above defcnbed. Its 



lalyx agrees mod with the former, thougli neither kecli-d 

 nor winged ; its corolla with the latter ; its habit is akin t9 

 both ; its /Lmimt peculiar to itielf. 



LISICZNIK, ill Geography, a town of Poland, in Podo- 

 lia ; 28 miles W. of Kaminiec. 



LISIEUX, a town of France, and prinrina! place of a 

 dillrid, in the department of the Calvados, and before the 

 revolution, the fee of a birtiop. The place contains 10,192, 

 and the canton 28,293 inhabitants, on a territory of 260 

 kiliometres, in 30 coliiuiunes. N. lat. 49'^ 8' 50''. E.long. 

 o 13' 32". 



LISIGNANO, a town of Iftria ; 14 miles E. S.E. of 

 Pola. 



LISKE.^ RD, a borough and market-town in the hun- 

 dred of Weil and county of Cornwall, England, is lituatcd 

 partly on rocky hills asd partly in a bottom ; and through 

 this Inequality of the ground, the flreets have the appeiir- 

 ance of being difpofed with ftudied irregularity. The bafe- 

 ment itories of the houlcs are confcqncntly diverfdied ; the 

 foundations of fome buildings being on a level with the 

 chimnies of others. The church confifts of three ipacions 

 aifles, and has a tower built moiUy of granite ; the foutli 

 fide of the church is ornamented with pinnacles and battle- 

 ments, alio of granite ; but the greater part of the iirufture 

 is compofed of flatc-llone, which likewiFe conltitutes the 

 foundation of the town. The town-hall is fupported on 

 granite columns, in the fpace between which a confiderable 

 market is held on Saturdays. Here are fix annual fairs. 

 On an eminence north of the town are the mouldering found- 

 ations of a callle, but every trace of its fliape ai.d archi- 

 tefture is nearly obliterated : near it is a large lield, ftill 

 called CalUe-park ; but no fragments appear of the " Chapel 

 of our Lady," mentioned by Browne Willis to have flood 

 therein. There is, however, a houfe ftanding at the boltom 

 of the town, which, from its windows, gateway, and (cidp- 

 tured ornaments, feeras to have been connefted with fome 

 religious eflablilhnicnt. Liflieard was conllituted a free bo- 

 rough by Richard, brother to Henry III. by charter dated 

 June ^, 1240. Queen Elizabeth, in the year 1580, granted 

 a charter of incorporation, by which the civil government 

 was veiled in a mayor, recorder, eight capital bnrgeifes, and 

 fifteen affiilants, who, with the other freemen of the borough, 

 elcdl two members of parliament. Lilkeard is 16 miles 

 dillant from Plymouth, and 237 from London : in the year 

 1800 the parifli was returned to parliament as containing 507 

 houies, and 2708 inhabitants. 



In the parifh of St. Cleer (to the north of Liflveard) are 

 various Druidical and other antiquities ; particularly the 

 Hurler?, which conlilled, whei\ perfeft, of three contiguous 

 circles of upright Hones from three to five feet in height ; 

 the Cheefc-Wring, a natural pile of rude rocks, rifuig to the 

 height of thirty-two feet ; the Other Half-ltone, which ap- 

 pears to have been the (haft of a crofs which originally flood 

 upright. To tliefe may be added, a cromlech of great 

 magnitude, called Trevethey-flone. St. Cleer's well, of whicli 

 fome remains are ftill extant, was in the' times of ignor- 

 ance and fuperftition eiieemed a bath of fovereign virtue. 

 South of Lillteard is St. Keyne's well, which is claffed by 

 Carew among the natural wonders of Cornwall. Of this 

 faint, and of the well, many poetical and legendary tales 

 are extant. The fprin<r is arched over, and on the mould 

 which covers this arch five large trees are growing. Beauties 

 of England and Wales, vol. ii. 



LISLAU, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Boleflaw ; 

 fix miles S. of Benatak. 



LISLE, Claude de, in Biograp/.y, a celebrated French 

 writer in hiftorv, was born at Lorrain in the year 1644. 



He 



