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•f admitting him to his table. After that city fell again 

 into the hands of the Poles, in 1657, he followed the 

 Swedifh garrifon, with two other Unitarians, to fupplicate 

 that they and friends of the fame rehgious perfuafion, 

 who had placed thcmfelves under his protection, might be 

 comprehended in the anineily to be granted at the conclu- 

 fion of the peace with Poland. This was not granted, and 

 finding that there was no hope of remaining in fafety in his 

 native country, he went to Copenhagen, in 1660, to feek 

 an afylum from the king of Denmark for his perfocuted 

 brethren who liad been banifhed from Poland. He received 

 kind treatment from his majelly, who could do nothing 

 more than promife to connive at their fettlement at Al- 

 tena. Thus circumftanced, he thought it advifable to re- 

 turn to P(>nicrania, and arrived at Stettin in 1661. Perfe- 

 cution followed him to this place, and he was obliged to 

 remove to Hamburgh, where he diredled his family to join 

 him in the year 1662 : from this city he was driven by the 

 fame fiend in 1667, and took refuge again at Copenhagen. 

 He now hoped there Was a profpeft of a peaceful fettle- 

 ment, becaufe the magiftrates of Fredericktburg confented 

 that the Unitarians (hould refide in their town, and enjoy, 

 without moleftation, the private exercife of their religion. 

 He therefore removed to that city, and invited his bamflicd 

 brethren to join him, fparing no pains nor coll, that he might 

 fettle and provide for them there. Scarcely, however, had 

 they taken quiet polfenion of their new abodes, when they 

 were banifhed from the city, and even the dominions of the 

 prince to whom the city belonged. Lubienietzki was ill at 

 the time when he received the order, but promifed to obey it 

 as fpeedily as poffible. Before, however, he could be re- 

 moved, poifon was adminiftered to him in his food, to which 

 two of his daughters, as well as himfelf, fell facrifices, 

 while his wife, who had' eaten very fparingly, narrowly 

 efcaped the fame fate. He died in 1675, about the 

 age of fifty-two. He wrote many books, the greater 

 number of ' which was not printed. The principal pub- 

 liflied work was entitled " Theatrum Cometicum," in 

 two vols, folio, which contains a minute hillorical account 

 of every fingle comet which had been feen or recorded 

 from the deluge to the year 1665. At the time of his 

 death he was engaged in writing " A Hiltory of the 

 Reformation in Poland,'' which was printed in Holland in 

 1685, in 8vo, with an account of the author's life. 



LUBIN, Augustine, an able geographer in the feven- 

 teenth century, was born at Paris in the year 1624. He 

 entered, at an early age, among the religious of the re- 

 formed order of St. Auguftine, and was diltinguifhed by his 

 proficiency in literary purfuits, particularly in ancient and 

 modern geography, and in facred and profane hillory. He 

 paffed through all the offices of his order, and his fcien- 

 tific fkiU was rewarded with the poll of geographer to the 

 king. He died at Paris in 1695. -^'^ principal works 

 are " Martyrologium Romanum, cum Tabulis Geographicis 

 et notis Hiftoricis;'' "Tabula Sacrne Geographies;, five 

 Notitia Antiqua, medii Temporis, et nova, Noniinum 

 utriufque Teltamenti ad Geographiam pertiilentium ;" being 

 a kind of diftionary to all the places mentioned in the 

 bible; " Geographical Tables ;" " Tlie Hiliory of Lap- 

 land," tranflated from Scheffer ; " The Geographical Mer- 

 cury," &c. 



LuBiN, ElLU.iRD, was born at Wefterftede, in the county 

 of Oldenburg, of which place his father was miniller. He 

 ftudied at feveral German univerfities, and acquired an cxaft 

 knowledge of the Greek language, with the branches of 

 fcience ufually taught in thofe feminaries. He was ap- 

 pointed profeffor of poetry in the univcrfity of Roftock 



in 1595, and ten years afterwards, was promoted to the 

 profeffoifliip of divinity. He wrote notes on Anacreon, 

 •Tiivenal, Pcrfius, S:c. His principal work was entitled 

 " Phofphorus de Caufa prima et Natura Mali,'' printed at 

 Rollock in 1596. He died in 1621. Bayle. 



J.,UBIN1A, in Botany, was named by Commerfon, the 

 French botanill, in honour of his friend the chevalier de 

 St. Ijubin, who dilUnguifhed himfelf formerly at the fiege 

 of Madras, and was, it fecm^, in the confidence of Hyder 

 Ally. What pretenfions the chevalier had to commemo- 

 ration, as a votary of fcience, does not appear, nor wai 

 Commerfon very felecl in the diftribution of fuch honours. 

 Juffieu, who mull liave feeji fpecimens, paffed over the 

 plant and the name in filcnce. Lamarck refeired it to Ly- 

 fimach'ia. Venten. Jard. de Celf. 96. — Clafs and order, 

 Pcniandria Monogyn'ia. Nat. Ord. Lyfimachiic, JufT. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, in five deep, ovate, 

 rather unequal fegments, with membranous edges, perma- 

 nent. Cor. of one petal, nearly falver-lliaped, llightly ir- 

 regular ; tube funnel-lhaped, the length of the calv.x ; limb 

 in five deep obtufe fegments, the two lovvermofl rather the 

 fmallell. Slam. Filaments five, awl-fhaped, inferted into the 

 lower part of the corolla, equal, the length of the tube ; 

 anthers cre£l, oval, two-lobed. Pi/l. Germen fuperior, al- 

 mo'l glcbular, fmcoth ; ftyle cylindrical, the lengih of the 

 flamens, permanent ; ftigma finiple, obtufe. Peric. Cap- 

 fule rouudifh-oval, crow ned by the ftyle, with five notches 

 at the top, of one cell, not burfting. Seeds numerous, 

 roundifh, comprefild, rough. Receptacle central, ovate, 

 fomewhat compreded, unconnefted with the capfule except 

 at the bafe, from which it feparates as the feeds ripen. 



Eff. Ch. Corolla falver-lhaped, irregular. Caplule ovate, 

 not burfting, crowned with the ftyle, of one cell. Seeds nu- 

 merous, attached to a central receeptacle. 



1. L. fpatulata. "Vent. Jard. de Celf. t. 96. (Lyfima- 

 chia mauritiana ; Lamarck Diet. v. 3. 372. Illuftr. r. 

 1980.) — The only known fpecies. Native of the iile dc 

 Bourbon. M. Cels appears to have had it in cultivation. 

 The root is faid by Ventcnat to be bienni?,!, and the floivers 

 to be produced in the beginning of fummer. This plant has 

 fomething of the afpeft of Convohuhis tricolor, but i.-; 

 firmer, and quite fmooth. The woody Jlcm produces a 

 few fimple branches, a fpan long, clothed with numerous, 

 fcattered, fpatulate, obtufe, entire, rather flefliy leaves, above 

 an inch long, tapering down into a bordered footftalk. 

 Flowers axillary, folitary, on fimple flalk?, half as long as 

 the leaves. Calyx dark brown, dotted with black, white 

 at the edge. Corolla yellow, nearly as broad as that of 

 Lxfimachia nemorum. — Capfule when prefled burfting ir- 

 regnlarly, fomctimes at the fides, fometimes, according to 

 Ventenat, into two or four apparent valves. Lamarck fays 

 it has five valves, but he perhaps judged from the notches 

 at the top. The fruit therefore, and the irregular corolla, 

 mark this genus as fufficiently dillinft from J^vfimachta ; 

 to which may be added, on tlie fcore of habit, its alternate, 

 not oppofite or whorled, leaves. 



LUBISCHAW, in Geography, a town of PrufCa, in 

 the province ot Poniereha ; 18 miles S. of Dantzic. 



LUBISCHMAT, a town of Pruflia, in tlie palatinate 

 of Culm ; 5 miles E. of Thorn. 



LUBLENIETZ, or Lubenskv, a town of Silcfia, iu 

 the principality of Oppeln ; 19 miles E. of Oppcln. N. lat. 

 50' 39'. E. long. 18" 42'. 



LUBLIN, a city of Poland, and capital of a palatinate 

 of the fame name ; part of which is annexed to the new 

 country of Galicia. It is furrounded with a wall and ditch, 

 and though not very large, its caftlc, whicii is built on a 



high 



