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remain ; tliinniiig them afterwards wliere tliey are too clofe, 

 and keeping them clean from weeds. In order to have a 

 fnccelTion of flowers, the feed (hould be fown at different 

 times, as in April, May, and June. The feed of tliole 

 only which are iirft fown, however, ripens well. And in 

 order to have good feed of tlic fourth kind, fonie feeds 

 fhould be fown in a funny border under a wall, or in pots 

 placed under frames, the plants in llij latter cafe being 

 turned out and planted with balls of earth about them 

 in the fpring. The lad fort ihould be fown at different 

 times. 



Thefe arc all ufcful plants for producing variety in the 

 borders, clumps, and otlier parts of pleafure grounds and 

 gardens. 



LUPO, in Geography, a town of Hinder Pomerania, on 

 a river of the fame name ; Ij; nviles E. of Stolpc. 



LUPOGLAVO, a town, of Iftria; 22 miles S.E. of 

 Triei\e. 



LUPPURG, a town of Bavaria, in the principality of 

 Neuburg ; 16 miles N.W. of Ratifbon. 



LUPULUS, in Botany, the diminutive of lupus, a wolf, 

 a name applied by the older botanifts to the Hop, (fee 

 HuMULUs,) bccaufc, as the wolf preys upon other animals, 

 fo this plant, by immoderately impovcrilliing the foil in which 

 it grows, ifarves its vegetable neighbours. Such at leaft is 

 the explanation of Ambrofnius. 



LUPUS, Wolf, in jSJlrommy, a fouthern conftellation 

 joined to the Centaur, whofe liars in Ptolemy's Catalogue 

 are nineteen ; in the Britannic Catalogue, with Sharp's 

 Appendix, twenty-four. See Centauii, and Constel- 



LATIO.V. 



Lupus Servatus, in Biography, a French abbot, ce- 

 lebrated for his learning, eloquence, and piety, defcended 

 from a confiderable family in the diocefe of Sens, was born 

 about the conynencemcnt of the ninth century. He had 

 from early youth a decided turn for theological purfuits, 

 and in 828 he went to the abbey Fulda in Germany, vihere 

 he ftudicd the fcriptures under the celebrated Rabanus, 

 who, at his rcquett, compofed his " Commentaries 

 upon the Epiflles of St. Paul." He obtained confider- 

 able church preferment by the patronage of Lewis le 

 Debonnaire, and Charles the Bald ; and by the latter he 

 was fent ambaffador to pope Leo IV., and he was ap- 

 pointed, in conjunflion with the celebrated Prudcntiu.'=, to 

 reform all the monaftcries in France. The time of his 

 death is unknown, but it is afcertained that he was living 

 in S61. He was a confiderable theological writer :. and he 

 publifhed accounts of the lives of St. Wigbert, and of St. 

 Maximin. A colleftion has been made of i ^o of his 

 *' Letters " upon different fubjefts relating to difiicuhies in 

 grammar, civil and ecclefiaftical affairs, points of dodlrine, 

 difciphne, and good morals, v.hicli are written with ele- 

 gance, and throw much light on the hiftory of the period 

 in which he lived. Moreri. 



Lupu.s, Christian, a learned Flemifn monk of the 

 order of St. Augulline, was born .u Ypres in 1O12, and 

 embraced a religious life at the early age of fifteen. He 

 completed his maturer lludies at Cologne, and was after- 

 wards fent to Louvaiu to teach philofophy ; in whicli he 

 acquired fuch celebrity, as to fecure the particular elleem 

 of the learned Fabio Chigi, then the papal nuncio in Ger- 

 many, afterwards known as pope Ale.iandor VII. In 

 1655, Lupus was one of the deputies fent to Rome by the 

 univerfity of Louvain, to negociate fome matters of im- 

 portance with the papal court, which he executed to the 

 fatisfaition of his employers. On his return he was ap- 

 pointed profelTor of divinity at Louvain, the duties of 

 t7 



Avhich he performed with great fuccefs. After this he filled 

 the principal polls belongmg to his order in that province, 

 pope Clement IX. would willingly have made.him a bifliop ; 

 ;ir.d from Innocent XL and the grand duke of Tu(i:;any, he 

 received repeated marks of cfleem ; the latter was defirous 

 of fettling ■.:pon him a confiderable penfion, that he might 

 attach him to his court. He died in 1681, at the age of 

 feventy. He left behind him many valuable works, of 

 which the chief are " Commentaries on the Hillory and 

 on the Canons of Councils, both general and particular,'' 

 in five volumes 410. ; " A Colleftion of Letters and Mo- 

 numents, relating to the Councils of Ephefus and Chal- 

 cedon ;" " A CoUeftion of the Letters of St. Thomas of 

 Canterbury, with a Life' prefixed ;" "A Commentary on 

 the Refcriptions of Tertulhan." Moreri. 



Lupu.s, in Ornithology, a name given by fome authors to 

 the monedula, or jackdaw, from fiis voracious appetite and 

 habit of tlealing. See Corvu.s Momdula. 



Ltipus, in Surgery, the difeafe frequently called noli mi; 

 tangcre. 



Lupus, in Zoology, a fpecies ef Cams. See Wolf. 



Lupus Aureus, tlie gold-coloured ivolf, the name by which 

 I^atin authars call the creature known in Englifh by tlie 

 name of the jackal. See Aureus. 



Lupus Cervarws, a name by which many authors have 

 called the lynx, from its feeding on deer. See Felis 

 I^ynx. 



Lupus Afciririus,a name given by Jonfton, Bellonius, and 

 Gcfner, to the Canis hyutia. See HyjENA. 



Lupus Mnrlnus, the Sca-iuolf, the Anarhkas lupui of 

 Linnreus, in Ichthyology, a fierce and voracious fea-iifh, 

 confined to the northern feas of our globe, L is found 

 in thofe of Greenland, Iceland, and Norway, on the coalls 

 of Scotland and of Yorkfliire, and in that part of the Ger- 

 man ocean which waflics tlie (liores of Holland. Its head 

 is larger in proportion to its fize than that of the fhark, 

 and rounder, a little flatted on the top ; the nofe blunt ; 

 the noftrils very fmall ; the eyes fmall, and placed near the 

 end of the nofe; the body is long, and a little coniprefled 

 fideways ; the back, fides, and fins, are all of a livid lead 

 colour ; the two firfl marked downwards with irregular, 

 obfc'.:re, dulliy lines, which in different fidi have different 

 appearances. Tlie young are of a greenifh cafl ; the belly 

 is white ; the flcin is fmooth and foft, but his teeth fo re- 

 markably hard and flrong, that if he bites againfl an anchor 

 of a fhip, or other iron fubllance, he makes a loud noifc, 

 and leaves his marks in the iron ; the fore-teeth are flrong, 

 conical, diverging a little from each other, iland far out 

 of the jaws, and are commonly fix above a'ld fix below, 

 though tomctimes there are only five in each jaw ; thefe are 

 fupported withi;-.fide by a row of lefTcr teeth, which make 

 "the nu.tiber in the upper jaw feventeen or eighteen, and in 

 the lower eleven or twelve. The fides of the lower jaw are 

 convex inwards, and the grinding teeth of this jaw are 

 higher on the outer than the inner edges, and join to the 

 canine teeth, but in the upper are feparated from them ; in 

 the centre are two rows of flat itrong i«.*th, fixed on an 

 oblong bafis upon the bones of the palate and nofe ; thefe 

 and the other grinding teeth are often ftiund foffil, and 

 called bufonhes, or toadlloncs. The two bones that form 

 the under jaw are united before by a loofe cartilage, ferving 

 by a free motion to the purpofe of breaking, grinding, and 

 comminuting its tcflaceous and cruilaceous food, as crabs, 

 lobflers, prawns, mufcles, &c. At the entrance of the 

 gullet, above a'.id below, are two very fmall echinated 

 bones. It has two fins, hke wings, fituated juil under the 

 gills ; and one long dorfal Jin ruiuiing from the head to the 



tail, 



