LEMON. 
CITRUS LIMON. 
Class 18.—POLYADELPHIA. 
a bite’ ree 
Order.—1COSANDRIA. 
Nat. sgn wet 
AU 
ctr, a sip unknown.—Rees’s Encycloped 
n-tree, growing upon Mount Aisi in Africa 
another 
ae lemon. 
a pome-citrul, 
tells us the word iin Gi is like the eas itself; of 
Persian or Moos origin. 
In Lem pice etymology we find ‘Citron, Greek 
apple, a fruit browght from Media.” And 
der the wo nm, we are told that 
reat Sinbedasg that ought to be writ- 
ord i 
,t 
mon, vs say i hey 8 opew e it to 
k eed Limos, hunger, becaus sharpens 
“Lemon from the Apostate seaucbecigue a a 
as 
th the gar arde en.’ — ‘Skin 
The genus citrus comprehen Sane of the citron, lemon, 
and a ee kin 
h ee; sat limon, and lime, C. Acris, are, 
* botanists referred to one —. » They, as well as 6a 
range, natives of dhe: East, now naturalized in all w 
The / ‘o. the noe of = twelve to four- 
teen feet. Its rap is e Seton a much more grateful acid 
: ey 
ime, we! 
ed; which is gare to haye derived its 
n Ita taly. 
The flowers of the genus citrus; nae a one-leafed, an e-cleft 
oblong, ands reading 
rom 
called Polo iso ~— 
name from Bergamo. 
calyx, 
The leaf of the lemon is  ovate-lanceolate, aakonias some- 
what serrated. 
As woman’s wisdom, their white blossoms smile, 
The promise of a golden fruitage. Gis 
or, TREE MOSS. 
Order.—ALG®. 
Nat. Ord. Juss. 
ALGZX. 
LICHEN; 
Class 24.—CRYPTOGAMIA. 
Nat. hap Linn, 
ALG 
Lichen, a name borrowed by the Romans from the Greeks, 
for the pion Boone the tetter or ringworm, and applied to 
some plan mossy nature. 
They ar © Bests or leather-like substances growing on rocks, 
d pecies may be 
gooseberry 
picturesque appearance. 
They are called rock-moss, or tree-moss ; some of the liver- 
Tceland-moss, now much used 
tions ; in its native 
animal, 
ose name it bears . caleareus piace sehen) fur- 
nishes that beautiful bu wer fugitive ve dye the @ 
ers of these s plants are used i me Asie 
here — Snowden bends his Teed brow 
O’er Con 
Retiring ide climbs the topmost s stone, 
And drinks the erial solitude alon 
pid — the — qunambera, | o’er her head, 
And the cold moon-beam mm gids hee Rie ty bed; 
While wpa" the rifted rocks, hoarse whirlwinds breathe, 
And dark k with thunder sail the clout uds beneath. Darwin. 
ak 
This plant is the first that vegetates on ed roc 
ing them with a kind of poetry: Br psi its are aa 
perhaps chiefly from the air.— Dar 
Rocks ai 
To human art a a sportive: semblance bore, 
And ye 
Like miuicak battlements, and towers s decay’d ot time. 
— 
The the wh 
in in medical books called lung-wort, as it is there said—from 
spo e to the lungs,—or rather, perhaps tom its being 
s of the lungs. It is said to possess t 
cate as =the Iceland-moss, so celebrated in the cure a yr 
ary consumption. 
LILAC. 
SYRINGA, 
Class 2.—DIANDRIA. ler.—MONOGYNIA, 
t. Ord. Linn Nat. Ord. Juss. 
SEPIARIE, JASMINE. 
Lilac, of — sera babar h lilas—Sp., li 
Syringe, alled by L » from. SURIGX, x, evaones, 
elk sig a pipe. 
pie its straight and tubular ec when deprived of the pith, 
FS 
te J 
o 
8 
a 
6 
z, 
Scringa. It may well be imagined 
e from the Greek; and originated 
eed, We have no 
form’d the reeds, proportion’d as they are, 
eg et in their length, and wax’d with care— 
They still retain the name of his ungrateful fair. Dryden. 
Pi iphus of Line, and others, now commonly 
ealled Syrinza. in Pas gard e 
d history, = with the abers, its branches being capable 
ture and 
of serving the ep 
The Syringa Vulgaris, or common = c, has usually 
rple flowers, tiful aenks y- 
The Persian li . Per b ofa a acca habit, 
wing only to the height of four or five fee he flowers are 
larger the common 9 equally f t; 
ic d less ¢ The ers 
English 
name is derived from them; belonging, also, in their language, 
eon privet. Tewasintrodaced into England about the middle 
erwin rom Constan' 
eels . also, a 
peng ee sie particularly by thie  anmmpate 
ese variety, now sow ealtrated, Mat more 
ag hap g stature, generally taken for 
S. Persica. ; 
