LOP 



LOP 



ff^de, for thefe . choirs ; but we believe tliey were never 

 printed, or adopted elfewhere. A perfon of the fame name, 

 a lay finger or organift of Exeter cathedral, is faid ta have 

 built ,the ornfan, which was erefted in that church at the re- 

 iloration ;of which inflrument, the largeft pipe of the open 

 diapafon was 32 feet ; which exceeded in magnitude that of 

 any other organ in the kingdom. 



LoosEMORs, George, bachelor in mulic, of Trinity 

 college, Cambridge. Great muficians are but few in every 

 part of Europe, except Italy and Germany, where the 

 courts and capitals are fo numerous ; but njf^/Zijirri// produces 

 many muHcians everywhere. 



LOOSENED. See Uooi'-loofcned. 



LOOT, a weight in Holland, 32 of which are equal to 

 lib. of commercial weight, and 24 = lib. of apothecaries' 

 weight = -Jib. troy. 



LOP, in Rural Economy, a term fignifjing to prune or 

 cut away. 



Lop Kent-chlan, in Geogra!>h\', a motintain of Thibet. 

 N. lat. 30' 14'. E. long. 8/" 5-4'. 



LOPARY, a town of Hindooilan, in Benares; 10 miles 

 S. of Jionpour. 



LOPES, Fernam, in Biography, the mod ancient of 

 the Portuguefe chroniclers, and laid to be one of the bed 

 writers of chronicles that any country can boafl. He was 

 private fecre'ary to the infante D. Fernando, who died in 

 captivity at Fez, afterwards became chief chronicler, and 

 keeper of the archives. He died in 1449. He was author 

 of the chronicles of Pedro I., of Fernando, and of Joam I. 

 to the conclufion of peace with Caftile. The chronicles of 

 the earlier kings are varioufly attributed to him, or to Ruy 

 de Pina, in whofe name they are publifhed. The chronicle 

 of Pedro was edited in i 734 by P. J. P. Bayam, and was 

 reprinted in 1760. That of Fernando, which is longer and 

 more valuable, Was never been publifhed. A manufcript 

 copy of the work is in the hands of Mr. Southcy. The 

 molt important of all his writings is his chronicle of Joam, 

 which is the hiilory of the grand flruggle be:;ween Portusjal 

 and Callile, towards the dole of the fourteenth century. 

 " No pains," fays the biographer, " were fpared to render 

 it as complete as poflible, neither on the part of the hiftorian 

 himfelf, nor of the king Duarte, by whofe command this 

 hiftory of his father was written. The monarch fent into 

 Callile to cojfeft documents, and the chronicler, indepen- 

 dently of the inform.ation which he had received at court 

 from perfons who had borne a part in the councils and ac- 

 tions of thofe times, v/ent over the whole kingdom to collect 

 tellimony from all the aftors in the wars, which he recorded. 

 This was firll publifhed in 1644, foon after the Braganzan 

 revolution ; never was a publication better timed ; never was 

 any book better calculated to roufe a nation by the example 

 of their fathers, and encourage them to rcfift thofe enemies 

 whom their fathers, under like circumftances, had con- 

 quered. It is a truly excellent and admirable work. With 

 the great advantage of finglenefs and wholenefs of fubjeil, 

 it has all tiie manners, painting, and dramatic reality of 

 Froiflart, conveyed in a nobler language, and vivified by a 

 more patriotic and more poetical mind." Gen. Biog. 



LOPESCO, in Gjography, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo 

 Ultra; ig .miles S.W. of Aquila. 



LOPEZ, Gregorio, in Biograph)', a celebrated Spanilh 

 lawyer, was born at Guadalonpe, towards the clofe of the 

 fifteenth, or 'commencement of the fixteenth century. He 

 edited the laws of Aionfo the Wife, known by the title of 

 *' Las Siete Partidas," and added a commentary, which has 

 been retained in moll of the fubfequent editions, and is in- 

 cluded in the laft. Lopez ftudied Et SalaroanCa, and was 



Vox.. XXI. 



one of the royal council of the Indies. The time of his 

 death is not known : Jiis epitaph in St. Anne's chapel, in 

 tiie monaftery of Guadalonpe, fays, in the Portuguefe lan- 

 guage : 



" Here lies the licentiate Gregorio Lopez, a native of 

 this place. Pray to God for him.'' Gen. Biog. 



LOPEZIA, in Botany, dedicated by Cavanilles to the 

 memory of " the' Licentiate Thomas Lopez,"' a native of 

 Burgos, who had an honourable appointment in America in 

 the reign of tl;e emperor Charles V., and is faid to have 

 written a compendium of natural hiftory, after his return ; 

 which flill remains in manufcript, under the title cf a 

 Treatife on the three elements of air, water and earth. 

 Cavan. Ic. v. i. 12. 'Vahl. Enum. v. 1.3. WiUd. Sp. 

 PI V. I. 18. Ait. Hort. Kew. cd. 2. v. i. 10. Lamarck 

 Did. V. 3. 594. — Clafs and order, Monandr'm Manogyn'ia. 

 Nat. Ord. Onagrit, .luff. See Sims and Konig's /uinals 

 of Botany, v. i. J32. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth fuperior, of four oblong, con- 

 cave, coloured deciduous leaves ; three of them afcending ; 

 the fourth, rather the largeft, pointing downwards. Gor. 

 irregular. Petals four, fpreading, longer than the calyx ; 

 the two uppermoft oblong, ere6t, parallel, with a gland at 

 the bafe, and fiipported by cyhndrical claws ; two lateral 

 ones fpatulate, widely fpreading. Neftary obovate, folded, 

 on a bent elaftic ftalk, parallel to the lower leaf of the 

 calyx. Slam. Filament one, awl-fliaped, afcending, oppofita 

 to the nedlary half as long as the upper petals ; anther ter- 

 minal, ovate, fimple, of two cells, embraced in an early ftate, 

 by the folded limb of the neftary. Pi/l. Germen inferior, 

 nearly globofe, fmooth ; ftyle thread-lhaped, fomewhat de- 

 clining, as long as the ftamen ; ftigma capitate, downy. 

 Perk. Capfule globular, of four cells, opening at the top 

 by four valves. Seeds minut», ovate, numerous. Receptack 

 fquare. 



Efl". Ch. Calyx fuperior, of four unequal leaves. Co- 

 rolla irregular, of four petals. NeClary ftalked, folded, 

 oppofite to the ftamen. Capfule of four cells and four 

 valves. Seeds numerous. 



1. L. hirfuta. Hairy Lopezia. Dryandr. in Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. n. I. Jacq. Coll. Suppl. v. 5. t. 15. f. 4. (L. 

 mexicana/3; Wilid. Sp. PI. n. i.) — Leaves o%'ate, downy. 

 Stem round, hairy. — Native of Mexico. Mr. John Hunne- 

 Tnann obtained feeds from Germany, for Kew gai'den, in 

 1 796. The plant is annual, kept in the ftove, and flowers 

 from September to November. We procured fpecimens m. 

 1797 from the Cambridge garden. The ^tv« is two or 

 three feet high, branched, pale green, clothed with longifti 

 foft hairs. Leaves alternate, ftaiked, ovate, pointed, mi- 

 nutely toothed, an inch or an inch and half long, of a 

 bright light green, clothed on both fides with fhort fofc 

 hairs ; thofe near the flowers fmall and feflile. Cluftert foii- 

 tary at the end of every little branch, fomewhat corvmbofe, 

 ieafy ; their partial ftalks capillary, fimple, fpreading, co- 

 loured, fmooth. Flowers fpreading, prettily variegated 

 with pink, deep red,' and white, in ihape~iiot unlike fome 

 fort of little flies. When touched, they exhibit a ftriking 

 elafticity, if not irritability, in the manner in which the 

 neftary on one hand, and the ftamen on Uie other, fly front 

 the piftil. 



2. L. racemofa. Smooth Lopezia. Cavan. Ic. v. i. 12. 

 t. 18. Curt. Mag. t. 254. (L. mexicana a ; Willd. Sp. 

 PI. n. I.) — Stem fquare, fmooth, as well as the leaves. Floral 

 leaves minute. — Native of Mexico. The firll feeds that 

 arrived in this country, were fent in a letter from Madrid in 

 1791, by the Abbe Cavanilles to the writer of the prefent 

 article, and produced plants at Kew and Chelfea the follow. 



3 F ing 



