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canton io,5'04 inhabitants, on a territory of 162^ kiliomctres, 

 in 12 communes. N. lat. 44^" 29'. E. long. 1° 23'. 



LUZERATH, a town of France, in the department of 

 tlie Rhine and Mofelle, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 dillrict of Coblentz. The place contains 614, and the can- 

 ton 2J2J inhabitants, in 12 communes. 



LUZERNE, a large county of Pennfylvania, bounded 

 north by Tioga county in New York, eaft and fouth-eall by 

 Nortiiampton, vveil by Lycoming and Northumberland 

 counties ; about yy miles in length ffom north to fouth, and 

 75 in breadth from eall to weft, divided into ig townihips, 

 and containing 2 churches, 33 faw-milL;, 24 grift-mills, 

 2 fuliing-mills, and i oil-mill. The number of inhabitants 

 is 12,839. Near the Sufquehannah river, which, with its 

 triMlitary ftreams, well waters it, the foil is very fertile, and 

 produces good crops of wheat, flax, and hemp. The 

 northern parts abound with pine, timber, and fugar-maple. 

 In the townfhips of Wilklbarre, Kingfton, Exeter, and 



tain of his genus being precifely the fame wth that of lljc 

 Flora Peruviana. He defines two New Holland fpecies. 



1. L. cymo/a. Cymes terminal, deeply dividpd. Branches 

 round. Young branches ftriat'cd, fmooth. Found near 

 Port Jacklon, as well as within the tropic. 



2. L. mon/ari_a. Umbels axillary, ftalked. Branches 

 ftriated, rough. - Found near Port Jackfon. 



LUZY, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Nievrc, and thief place of a canton, in the diC. 

 tritt of Chateau-Chinon ; 5' leagues S.S.E. of Moulins-en- 

 Gilbert. The place contams 160-;, and the canton 8748 

 inhabitants, on a territory of 417I Itihomctres, in 9 com- 

 munes. 



LUZZ ANA, a town of Ita'y ; 22 miles S. of Mantua. 

 • LUZZI, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra ; 4 miles 

 'Cr. of Bilignano. _ 



LUZZO Maiuno, in Ich hyohgy, a name given by the 

 the ancient Greek writers, and 



Italians to the fiih called b\ 



Plymouth, are large beds of coal. Coal and bog-iron are many of t!ie modern Latin authors, _/^/^jr^na; and by Pliny, 



found in feveral places, and two forges have been ereiilcd 

 In this county are many remains of ancient fortifications, 

 which are of an elliptical form, and covered with large white 

 oak-trees. Its chief town is Wilkfbarre. 



LUZIOL.A, in Botany, JulT. 33. An annual Pcrnvian 

 grafs, which Dombey took for a Zizaiiia. It is defcribed 

 lay Juflieu as monoecious, without atiy calyx ; the corolla of 

 two valves, without awns. Male flowers in a loofe terminal 

 fpike. Stamens ufually eight, fometimes nine or ten ; an- 

 thers ftalked. Female flowers panicled, inferior, much 

 fmalier. Styles two. Seed ovate, naked. 



IjUZULA, a genus eftabllftied by Decandolle in his 

 edition of Lamarck's Flore Fratifal/e, v. 3. Ij8; and 

 adopted by Mr. R. Brown, Prodr. Nov. Roll. v. i. 591. 

 It confifts of fuch Linnsan Jimci as have a capfule of a fingle 

 cell, with only three feeds, as is the cafe with J. campc/lris, 

 Linn. (Juncoides; Mich. Gen. 41. t. 3 i.) Whether the 

 fmall number of the feeds be a fuCficient charafter, feems to 



Varro, and lome other of the old Roman authors, yi/^;/. 

 Gaza has called' it the malleolus, and the French, at this 

 time, cail it fpet. Salvian has given the figure of it, but 

 it is an imperieft one ; for he has omJltcd the firft fin of the 

 back. 



LYBIA, in jinclcnt Geography. See Libya. 



LYCiE.^, Ayy.xtz, in Antiquity, an Arcadian feftival re- 

 fembling the Roman lupcrcalia. in which the conqueror was 

 rewarded with a fuit of brazen armour. 



LYCANTHROPIA, in Ancient Medicine, from \<jy.o;i a 

 ivnlf, and :ivSpiiot,-, many as it were man-wolf, a term applied 

 to that variety of inlanity or melancholy, which induced 

 the perfons afi"efted to wander out in the night, howling and 

 making other noifes, frcquentmg church -yards, or places of 

 burial ; in which circumilances they were fuppofed to imi- 

 tate or to rcfemble wolves. A e tins and Paul of iEgina have 

 defcribed fiich patients as pale, with dry and hollow eyes, 

 parched tongue and mouth, exccffivc thirlt, and perpetual 



us at beft dovibtful, conudering ht)w various their number is fores on their legs, in confequcnce of the frequent accidents 

 in other Jimcl. The capfule having one cell or tliree is which they met with. The fame term was alto applied to 



who fancied thcmfelves transformed into 



certainly of no importance, in either the three-feeded or 

 many-feeded fpecies ; fome having perfeft partitions from 

 the centre of their valves, others more or lefs of a ridge 

 there in the place of them. The capfule of Juncia Forjleri, 

 Engl. Bot. t. 1293, for inftance, which by the number of 

 its feeds fiiould be a Liizithi, has a capfule of three cells. 

 It is indeed much to be wifiied, that plants fo unlike the 

 habit of moft Junci could, by any found charafter, be fe- 

 parated from them ; but wiihout fuch they are beft as they 

 are. 



LUZURIAGA, fo called by the authors of the Flora 

 Peruviana, in honour of a Spaniftt botanift, or patron of the 

 fcience, of the fame name. Ruiz' et Pavon Fl. Peruv. 

 Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. i. 281.— Ciafs and order, 

 Hcxandrii Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Sarmentacens, Linn. Af- 

 pboJdi, .fulT. Afphedeledi, Brown. 



Efl". Ch. Calyx none. Corolla in fix deep, equal, 

 fpreading, beardlefs fegments, deciduous. Filaments in- 

 ferted into thcbafe of each fegmcnt, thread-fliaped, fmooth, 

 curved at the point; anthers arrow-fliaped, cohering, longer 

 than the filaments. Style thread-fliaped, with three far- 

 rpws ; iligma fimple. Berry with a few, nearly globofe, 

 feeds. - 



This ""enus confifts of climbing weak fhrubs, with fimple 

 ribbed leaves. Flowers cymofe or umbellate, terminal "and 

 axillary ; their footftalks as it were articulated with the 



thofe maniacs, 



wolves. The appellation of cynnnthropla was alfo given to 

 the difeafe, when the patients imitated the manners oi dogs, 

 or imagined themfelves to be changed into thefe animals. 

 LYCAON, in Zoology. See Black Fox. 

 LYCAONIA, in Ancient Geography, a province of Afia 

 Minor, fouth of Galatia. According to Strabo, Ifauria 

 made a part of it. It was fituated between mountains, and 

 is fuppofed to have derived its name from Xvao:, a '■juolf, be- 

 caufe the country, from its fituation, formed a proper re- 

 treat for thofe animals. The principal places of Lycaonia, 

 according to Ptolemy, were AdopifTus Canna, Iconium, 

 Paralais Corna, Cafbia, and Baratta. The apolties of this, 

 country are faid to have been St. Paul and St. Barnabas. 

 The notitia of Hierocles reckons in this province 18 cpif- 

 copal towns. 



LYCEUM, Xw.'Ao:; in Antiquity, the name of a cele- 

 brated ichool, or academy at Athens, where Arillotle ex- 

 plained his philofophy. 



The place was a grove in the fuburbs of Athens, which 

 had previoudv been ufed for military excrcifes. It was com- 

 poied of porticoes, and trees planted in tile quincunx form, 

 wheiethe philofophers difputcd walking. Yisnce philofophi 

 of the Lyceum is ufed to fignify the philofophy of Ariliotle, 

 or the Peripatetic philofophy. Suidas obferves, tllat the 

 Lyceum took its name from its having been originally ?. 

 rather tapering bafe of the flower. Berry black, fometimes temple of Apollo Lyceus ; or rather, a porticQ or gallery , 

 enclofiug o.nJy a fingle feed. Mr. Brown is not quite cer- built by Lyceus, fon of Apollo ; but others mention it to 



have 



