L Y C 



L Y C 



in "July and Augufl, but do not produce feeds in this 



climate. 



The fecond has the (lalk four or five feet high, fending 

 out many iriesrular branches, covered with a very white bark, 

 and armed widi a few fliort fpiiies ; tlie leaves are about 

 three inclies long, and one iijch broad in the middle, alternate, 

 pale green. I'he flowers appear in May, and are fucceed- 

 cd by fmall round berries tliat ripen in the autumn, when 

 they become as red a;- c<'Tal. 



The third rifes with weak irregul-ir diff'.:fed branches to a 

 great height, requiring iupport ; fome of thefe branches 

 have in one year been upwards of twelve feet h)ng ; the 

 lower leaves are more than four inches long, and three broad 

 in the middle ; they are of a light green and a thin confif- 

 . tence, placed witliout order on every fide of the branches. As 

 the fhoots advance in length, the leaves diminifli in fizc, and 

 towards the upper part are not more than an i::chlong and a 

 quarter of an inch broad ; fitting clofe to the ilalks on every 

 fide. The flowers come out fingly at every joint towards 

 the upper part of the branches, on Ihort tender peduncles, 

 and are of a pale colour with (hort tubes ; the brims 

 are fpread open, broader than either of the former forts, 

 and the ftyle is confiderably longer than the lube of llie 

 corolla. 



Method of dihui-c. — All thefe plants may be increafed by 

 feeds, cuttings, or layers. 



The feeds (liould be fown in the autumn foon after they 

 are ripe, in pots, being plunged into an old tan-bed m winter, 

 and covered with the glaffes in froily weather ; but in mild 

 weather be open to receive moiihire ; in the following fpring 

 the pots (hould be plunged into a moderate hot-bed, to bring 

 up the plants, which mull be inured to bear the open sir as 

 foon as the danger of froft is over, and when they are three 

 inches high, be fhidien out of the pots, and each planted in 

 a fmall feparate pot iiiled with loamy earth, being placed in 

 the fliade till they have taken new root, when they may be 

 removed to a fheltered fituation, to remain till the autumn, 

 when they fliould be either removed into the greenhoufe, or 

 placed under a hot-bed frame, to flicker them from hard froft. 

 They muil at fu'll be kept in pots, and treated in the fame 

 way as myrtles, and lither hardy greenhoufe plants ; but 

 when they are grown ftrong, a few of them may be planted 

 out in the open ground in warm fituations, where they ftand 

 moderate winters, but are cominonly dellroyed by hard 

 frofts. 



The cuttings fhould be made from the young fhoots, and 

 be planted in a Ihady border in July, being, duly watered ; 

 and wlien they have taken root, be treated in the fame man- 

 ner as the feedling plants. This is the ufual mode of in- 

 creafing them, as fome forts never -produce feeds in this 

 climate. 



In the third fort the cuttings fhould be planted in the 

 fpring, in an eaftern border ; and tlie plants fhould not be 

 removed till the autumn, when they may be planted to 

 cover walls, as the branches are too v.euk to fupport them- 

 felves. 



The third variety may alfo be increafed by dividing and 

 planting its creeping roots. 



The layers muft. be made from the young branches, and 

 be laid down in tlie fpring ; and when rooted in the autumn, 

 taken off, and managed as in the other methods. 



The hardy forts afford variety in warm fituations in 

 the open ground, and the other forts among greenhoufe 

 colkftions. 



Lycium, in the Malena Mc-d'ica, the name of a fruit 

 called by the French hay; iV A-vl^non, the Avignon berry, 

 and by many authors the pyracantha. The ihrub which 



produces It is the lycium five nyracantha of Gerrard. (See 

 I^vciUM,y«/'ra) The fruit is about the fize of a grain of wheat, 

 and is not rotind, but of an angular form when dried, fome- 

 tiines of three, fomctimcs of four angles, and fometimcs 

 dented in at one end like a heart. It is of ayellowilh-grcen 

 colour, and of a bitter and aftringent talte. It fliould 

 be chofen frefn dried, and large. There was formei-ly 

 a rob, or inlpiflated juice made from thefe berries, much 

 in ufe in medicine ; but this was generally adulterated 

 with a rob made of the berries of the woodbine, privet, flue, 

 or other fhrub, and is now quite out of ufe. The dyers in 

 France and Holland ufe it for a yellow ; and the Dutch have 

 another ufe for it, which is, that they boil it in alum-water, 

 and mixing it in whiting, form it into twilled (licks, whicli 

 they fell to the painters in water-colours, under the name of 

 Jill lie v/o'in, 



lA'COCTONON. See Acosite. 



LYCODONTES. See Bufonit^. 



LYCOGALA, in Bo/any, fo named by Micheli, from 

 Xuxo;, a lunlf, and ■) x>ia, milh, a genus of the fungus tribe, 

 whofe internal appearance and fubflance, in an early (late, 

 are like a mafs of thick crsam. It is included under Mncor 

 by Linnxus, Schreber, and others. Perf. Syn. 157. Mich. 

 Gen. 21.5. t. 9J. Albert, and Schwein. Sj;. (RL-ticularia ; 

 Bulliard Fung. v. I. t.476.f. I — 3.) — Clafsand order, Cryy- 

 ioganua Fungi. Nat. Ord. Fungi. 



Eff. Ch. Cafe roundi(h, membranous, fmooth, lodging a 

 mafs, originally pulpy and deliqueiccnr, Jinaily powdery in- 

 termixed with diltant internal fibres. 



1. 1... argenteum. (L. grifeum majus ; Mich. Gen. 2 1 6. 

 t. 9J. f. I. Reticularia Lycoperdon, var. 2 ; Bull. Fung. 

 V. I. 95. t. 476. f. I. Mucor lycogalus ; Bolt. Fung. v. ^. 

 133.1. 133. f.2 ) — ^Cufliion-fhaped^ fomewhat hemifphcrical, 

 naked, even ofafllvery white. — Found hpon rotten wood in 

 autumn. — About an inch or more in diameter, brown and 

 pulpy when young, of a brilliant white when arrived at ma- 

 turity, diicharging, by one or more irregular accidental 

 openings, a mais of rich dark fnuff-coloured powder. 



2. L. ttirbinatitm. (Reticularia Lycoperdon, var. 3 ; 

 Bull. V. I. f)j'. t. 476. f.2.) — Top-fhaped, naked, even, 

 pale brown. Found in fimilar fituations, though rarelv, 

 But half the fize.of the former, at moft, and furnilhed with 

 a kind of fhort ftalk, which gives it a pcar-fhaped figure. 

 Hence Perfoon was induced to make this a dillmtl 

 fpecies, though lie appears to have known it merely by 

 the account ot Bulliard. The latter fays it is pellucid when 

 yoiyig. 



3. L,. pundii.'um. (Reticularia Lyeopcrdon, var. 4 i Bull, 

 v. I. 95. t. 476. f. 3.) — Aggregate, globofe, dotted, greyifli. 

 — Found on rotten wood. Nearly as big as the firll, but 

 more globofe, and of an afliy-grey ; its furface dotted all 

 over with minute points. 



4. L. atnim. Albert, and Schwein. n. 233. t. 3. f. 3. — 

 CuQiion-fliaped, black. Its powder is intermingled with 

 branched, tree-like, radiating fixed tlircads. This, not 

 mentioned by Perfoon, is defcribed by the above authors of 

 the ConfpcHus of Fungi, growing near Niflie in Upper Lu- 

 fatia, as found upon fir trees from April to June, and more 

 fparingly in Otlober and November^ It is the fize and fliape 

 of the firR fpecies ^ white in the bcgirjjiing, then of a dirty 

 yellow, afterwards reddi/li-brovvn, and finally black. This 

 fundus is remarkable for leavinsj, as it were, a flvcleton of 

 blanched black fibres, radiating from a centre, \\ nen the coat 

 and powder are gone. 



J. I.,, min.'t/um. Perf. n. 4. (L. miniata ; Perf. Obf. 

 M)col. fate. 2. 26. L. globofum, grani pifi ir.agnitudine, 

 ssric recodf i colore j' Mich. Geu. 216. t. 95. f. 2. Lycoper- 

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