LOB 



LOB 



this didric^ ; he can forefee the ufe of that which he is 

 forming, with a fcrccn of planting ; cinbofoniing tlie entire 

 farmery, in fuch a manner as to llieltcr it tfl'cttually from 

 th,; north and eatl winds." 



LOBE, or LoBUS, m Jnatomy, an epithet apphcd to 

 the more or lefs feparate parts, of which the glands of the 

 body are compofed. Tlius we have lobes of the brain, lungs, 

 Lver, &c. 



Lobe is alfo ufed for the tip of the ear ; which is more 

 ■fat and flediy than any other part thereof. 



Du Laurent fays, that the word lolx, in this lad fcnfe, 

 comes from the Greek, Xi?<r., to Jbame, or be ii/]jamed; 

 this part of the ear being faid to blu(h when the perfon is 

 athamed. 



LouE is dlfo ufed in fpeaking of fruits and grains. 

 Thus the bean canlilU of two equal parts, called lobes, 

 which compofe the body thereof, and are encompallcd with 

 -the other Ikin. And all other grains, even the fniallcll, are 

 divided, like the bean, into the two lobes, or equal parts ; as 

 Dr. Grew has fliewn in his Anatomy of Pbnts. See Louus. 

 LOBEDA, in Gcogrttphy, a town of Germany in the 

 .principality of Eifenach ; three miles S.S.E. of Jena. 



LOBEDIUN, a town of Rufiia, in the government of 

 Tambov t 100 miles W.N.W. of Tambov. N. lat. ^t,"" 

 28'. E.long. 38' 50'. 



LOBEGUN, a town of Wcftphalia, in the duchy of 

 Magdeburg ; 25 miles N. of Leipfic. 



LOBEIRA, VAsro, m Biographv, z\\\.\\or oi " Amadis 

 of Gaul," was born at Porta about the middle of the 

 fourteenth century. He was knighted upon the field of 

 battle at Aljubar'rota by king Joam I. in the year 1386, 

 ani died at Elvas, where he pofTefred a good eftate. Ac- 

 cording to Mr. Southey nothing more has been coUeftcd by 

 the Portuguefe biographers of Lobeira. It has been 

 queftioned whether he was the author of the Amadis de 

 Gaul, and whether that poem was not written in France 

 rather than in Portugal; to which the translator replies, 

 «' Some weight muft be allowed to the authority of the 

 Portuguefe writers, who have all, w-ith the exception of 

 Cardoza, attributed it to Lobeira as an original produftion." 

 *' The romance," he farther adds, "is not older than Lo- 

 beira's age ; for it refers to the Englifli claim upon the 

 4Crown of France, and reprefents Windfor as the mod 

 fplendid court, and the king of England as the moll power- 

 ful king m Chriftendom. It was written in a country 

 remote from England ; for Windfor is called an ifiand, and 

 the adventurers who crofs from France make Brillol their 

 port. Many other fuch inftanccs of geographical ignorance 

 could be mentioned ; miltakes which might eafily be made 

 by a Portuguefe, but not by a Frenchman. It was written 

 in Portugal, for many of the names are Portuguefe. Bet- 

 ter proofs of time and place cannot be required." Of 

 the poem Mr. S. fays, it may be fafely affirmed that it con- 

 tains nothing which, in the age in which it was written, 

 would be regarded as impoiiible, fcarcely any thing that 

 would be thought exaggerated. The aSions of Amadis, 

 and the importance of a iingle chief, would not appear in- 

 credible to a people who had then living among them their 

 own hero, Nuno Alvares Pcreira, whofe military exploits 

 were as extraordinary, and as important to his owh ciiarafter. 

 To a nation wlio kntw this man, and knew alfo that it was 

 chiefly owing to his courage that they exifted as a feparate 

 people, the cii.u-after of Amadis would not appear exag- 

 gerated. Amadis has been confidered as the model of a per- 

 tet\ knight. " Truly," fays fir Phihp Sidney, " I have 

 fcnowa men, that even with reading Amadis de Gaul, which, 



God knows, wanteth much of a perfeft poefic, have found 

 their hearts movcil to the exercife of courtefy, liberality, and 

 efpecially courage." 



LOBEL, or l'Obel, Matthias de, a botanift nearly 

 contemporary with Clufins, whofe wooden cuts, for the 

 molt part, re-appeared in his works, was not, as fome 

 have thought, an Englifliman, but born, in 1538, at Lille 

 in Flanders, where his father prattifed in the law. He 

 acquired in his youth an ardent love of plants, and had 

 good opportunities of gratifying his tafte, and advancing 

 his knowledge, at Montpellier, where he ftudied phyfic 

 under the learned Rondelct, or Rondeletius. During his re- 

 fidence there, he found opportunities of making fome bota- 

 nical cxcurfions over the fouth of France. At Narbonne he 

 became acquainted with Pena, afterwards his fellow labourer 

 in the Jldvcrfaria, the firft edition of which was publiflied, 

 in fmall folio, at London, in 1570, and dedicated to queen 

 Elizabeth. The few cuts difperied through this volwme are 

 mollly original, but inferior in flyle and accuracy, as well as 

 in fize, to thofe of Clufuis, Before the publication of the 

 Advsrfaria, our author had extended his travels to Switzer- 

 land, the Tyrol, fome parts of Germany and Italy ; had fet- 

 tled as a phyfician at Antwerp, afterwards at Delft ; and 

 had been appointed phyliciaii to the illuftrious William 

 prince of Orange, and to the itates of Holland. Dr. Pulte- 

 ney has not been able to afcertain the time of Lobcl's re- 

 moval to England, but juttly concludes it to have been be« 

 fore 1750; indeed, moll probably, lome years earlier, as he 

 mentions in this edition of the Adverfaria, p. Q2, having 

 long ago received from Dr. Turner leeds of the Sea Kale, 

 Cramle marhima, of which he there exhibits an indifferent 

 cut, mentioning it as a plant whofe flowery tops might be 

 eaten, though much inferior to the cultivated kinds of the 

 fame tribe. It appears by this, that the young fprouts, 

 now known to be fo excellent for the table, had not then 

 been tried. 



The aim of the authors of the Adverfana was to invefti- 

 gate the botany and maler'ia mul'ica of the ancients, and ef- 

 pecially of Diofcorides. They therefore frequently criticife 

 Matthiohis, the moft celebrated commentator of the Greek 

 writer, for it is fcarcely poflible for different people to pur- 

 fue this intricate and obfcure path long without difagree- 

 ment. Indeed half a fcore commentators on the plants of 

 Diofcorides might all exercife their ingenuity, in mod cafes, 

 with equal flcill, without any body being able to decide 

 which of them was ncared the truth. The Ad'vcrjar'ia was 

 reprinted at Antwerp in 1576, the dedication being, of 

 courfe, there fupprcfFcd. New title-pages had been printed 

 to help the fale of the original, in 1571 and 1572. Some 

 copies of the Antwerp impreflion appear to have been made 

 up into a new edition at London in 1603', an ample Pharma- 

 copeia, the foundation of which was from Rondeletius, being 

 prefixed, and an appendix to the Adverjaria fubjoined. 

 This volume is dedicated to Edward lord Zouch, whom 

 Lobel had attended, on his embaffy to Denmark, in 1592, 

 and he calls himfelf, in the title, botanill to king James I. 

 Dr. Pulteney obferves, after Haller, that this work exhibits 

 fome traces of a natural dillribution of plants, infomuch at 

 lead as they are thrown together into a number of tribes or 

 orders, according to their habits or flowers ; but this is done 

 without any remarks, and with fo little precifion, that it 

 can only be faid tl;e method of Lobel is better than that of 

 Dodonxus, in which there is no confident principle at alk 

 His work is much more valuable for the various remarks 

 which it contains, and for the accounts of new plants, dif- 

 covercd by himfelf in England or elfewhere. On the fubjetl 

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