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town of Italy, in the Veronefc ; eight miles N. of Verona. 

 — f\.Ho, a town of Italy, in the Paduan ; lo miles E. of 

 Padua. — Alfo, a town of Italy, in tLe department of the 

 Lower Po ; I J miles S. of Ft rrara^ 



LUGOS, a town of Himgary ; ^7 miles S.W. of Co- 

 lofvar. — Alf >, a town of Him^ary, in thebannat of Temcf- 

 var, on tlie Temes ; 23 miles E. of IV-mcfvar. 



LUGUBRE, Fr. in M/t/ic, a term which implies gloomy, 

 melancholy, dejetlid. 



L.UHANGO, in Geography, a town of Swedep, in the 

 province of Tavailland ; 60 miles N.i>i.E. of Tavaftland. 

 LUHEA, in Botany, fo named by Willdenow, in com- 

 pliment, as we prcfiime, to F. K.Frcyherr von der Liihe, who 

 publiflied at Vienna, in 1797, a German hymn to Flora. 

 His poetry ought to be very fine, as we hope it is, to merit 



fo magnificent a plant. — Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 1434 Ciafs 



and order, Polyadelph'ta Pdyandrla. Nat. Ord. Columm- 

 fir<s, Linn. Mahiace^, Jud. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, double ; the outer of 

 nine equal, linear leaves, channelled at the back ; inner in 

 five deep, lanceolate fcgments, internally fmooth, naked, 

 and coloured. Cor. Petals five, longer than the calyx, broad, 

 roundiHi, wavy, crenate, veiny. Neftaries five, (talked, 

 pencil-fhaped, hairy. Siatn. Filaments numerous, hairy, 

 united into live fets at their bafe ; anthers incumbent, 

 roundifh, fmnoth. PiJI. Germen roundifh, or conical, with 

 five angles, hairy ; ftyle columnar, thick, Ihorter than the 

 flamens, fmooth upwards ; ftigma orbicular, broad, de- 

 preffcd, with feveral radiant furrows. Perk. Capfiile of 

 five cells. Seeds w'm^eA. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx double ; the outer of nine leaves; inner 

 in five deep fegments. Petals five. NeiTtaries five, pencil- 

 fhaped. Style one. Capfule of five cells. Seeds winged. 

 I. h.fpeciojj. Wilid. Nov. Ad. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Bcrol. 

 V. 3. 410. t. J — Native of lofty mountains in the Caraccas, 

 from whence we have a fpecimen, gathered by Dr. J. Msrter, 

 to whom, though we do not meet with his name, the Viei.na 

 gardens are indebted for many of the finell plants publifhed 

 by Jacquin. From him we learn what is mentioned above 

 refpectiug the capfule and feeds, about which Profeffor 

 Willdeno.v had no information. We have had no opportu- 

 nity of confukiiig his original account in the memoirs of the 

 Berlin fociety, which is here cited on his own authority in 

 his Speclis PLmtiirltm. 



This, the only known fpecies, isAtree, 20 or 30 feet high, 

 with alternate, round, brown branches, downv vvlicn young. 

 Zmucj alternate, on ihort, thick, Aovivty Jlaiks, roundilh- 

 oblong, pointed, flightly heart-fhaped and a little unequal 

 at the bafe, three or four inches long, unequally and iharply 

 ferrated ; fmooth and naked above ; white with denfe Hel- 

 lated down, furniihed with three prominent ribs, and nume- 

 rous tranfverfe parallel veins, beneath. Flowers white, 

 large and handfome, not many together, in downy, terminal, 

 fimple clufters. The calyx and partiul_y?a//'j are clothed with 

 dei-ife pubefjence, of a rully hue in ttie dried fpecimen. — 

 This plant is clofely allied in habit and fcuit to the Ptero- 

 f^ermum of Sehreber and Willdenow (Pcntapcles fuberifolia 

 and acerifoHa oi Linnxus) ; the differences in their flowers 

 however teem elTential, elpecially as the calyx of Pterojper- 

 mum is fimp'.e. 



LU-'iYNY, in Geography, a town of Ruffian Poland; 

 24 mibs W. S W. of Owrucza. 



LUICHEN, a city of C'huia, in Quang-tong, fituated 

 in a fertile and pleafant country, near ihe fca. N. lat. 28^ 

 58'. E. long. lio' 8'. 



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LUIDA, in Botany, Adanfon v. 2. 492, was fo called 

 by that writer after Mr. Edward Llwyd, the corrc fjjondent 

 of Ray, who is mentioned in his Synopjis as the diftovcrer 

 of feveral molfes and other plants in Wales. This flip, 

 pofed genus however will neither immortalize him, nor its 

 whimfical author, being made up of various fpegies of 

 Hypnum, Bryum, Splachnum, &c. cbaraflerif^d by having 

 fome leaves triangular and fome orbicular ! Mr. Llwyd ap- 

 pears, by what Ray fays of iiim, in the preface to the fe- 

 cond edition of his Syiwpjis and elfewhcre, to defcrve more 

 permanent commemotation. 



LUIGI Ro.s,si, in Biography, one of the eariieft and 

 mod volumnious compofers of cantatas in the fevcnteeiith 

 century. He ir celebrated iu 1640 by Pietro della Valle, 

 in his letter to Guidiccioni, for his grave canzonette, par- 

 ticularly that vvliich begins " Or cVe la iiottc del filcnrio 

 amica." 



Many of his cantatas are prcfcrved in all the collcflions 

 which include the imific of the lall century, particularly iu 

 the Brit. Muf Bibl. Harl. 1265 and 1273, and iu Dr» 

 Aldrich's CoUedlion, Chrift church, O.-ton. 



His cantata, "La Fortune," in the Mufeum coIlcftion.No. 

 laOj, is of an immeafurable length. The recitative, how- 

 ever, with formal clofes, has pleafing cxprefru)n^ in it, that 

 Hill live. No da cupo, or fign of reference, appears in his can- 

 tata, and he writes twice or three times over the fame airs ; a 

 trouble which tiiefe expedients would have fpared. He feeins 

 to have llarted feveral flimfy divifions, which .-.fterwards be- 

 came common ; and, indeed, it appears from his cantatas, 

 that as foon as fecular mufic had divefted itielf of tiie pe- 

 dantry of perpetual canons, fugues, and multiphed j.art.s, 

 another vice crept into the art, by the frequent and exceflivc 

 ufe of divifion-s. Luigi, in fongs for a fingle voice, has 

 fome of this kind as long as thofe in modern bravt;ra airs. 



In the Magliabecchi library at Florence, we foundafcene 

 of oratorio called " Giufeppe Figlio di Giacobbc, opera 

 fpirituale fatta in niufica da Aloigi de Roffi, Napolitano, in 

 Roma.'' And under the name of RoJJi many of hiscompo- 

 litions may be found in the mufeum. 



Luigi, in his motets that are preferved in the Chrift- 

 church coUtftion, appears to have been as able to write a.- 

 cappella, in many parts wiih learning, as with elegance in 

 few. 



LUIGNA, in Geograplj, a town of Spain, in Afturias; , 

 20 miles N. W. of Oviedo. 



LUI-LUNG-TA. See Stcrioo- 



LUING, or Long Isla.nd, one of the fmaller weftern 

 iflands of Scotland, between Scaiba and Kerrera. 



LUINI, BoMETTO, of Brefcia, in Bkgrciphy, an opera 

 finger in foprano, who had been in Ruffia and other foreign 

 countries, and acquired great wealth, but diiiipated <Treat 

 part of it by play. Ytt, after lofing ten thoiifand pounds in 

 one night of the money which he had gained an ic.fua virtu, 

 he was (liil faid, in Italy, lo be very rich. 



LUIS, St , in Geogrepky, a town of South Acierica, in 

 the government of Bienos Ayres, and province of Cordova; 

 170 miles S.W. of Cordova. *S. lat. 32'- 10'. W. long. 

 67 I 2'. — Alio, a town of South America, in the province 

 of Moves ; 72 miles N.W. of Trinidad. -^Alfo, a miflion 

 of Spanilh monks in New Albion ; 10 miles N.E. of Punta. 

 el Eiteros. — Alfo, a town of New Navarre ; 50 miles S. of 

 Cala Grande. 



Luis de la Pizz, St , a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Mecboacan ; 100 miles N. of Mechoacan. N. Lt. 21^ 50'. 



W. long. 1Q2^ !&'. 



Luis Je Marancn, St. See St. F£iaPE» 



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