LOT 
«?om conies to flower in pnftures; without however con¬ 
firming- the aflertion of Linngsns, that (beep diflike it ; or 
of Miiler, that no cattle will eat it; for they devour the 
herbage, though they leave the flowering-talks untouch¬ 
ed, as we remarked above. Dr. Anderfon’s figure is not 
exaft in the leaves, there being always three leaflets with 
two ftipules, whereas he has never more than four, and 
frequently only two. 
ao. Lotus cytifoides, or downy bird’s-foot trefoil: 
heads halved ; (fern difFufed, very much branched ; leaves 
tomentofe. This is a perennial plant, fending out from 
the root many (talks, which branch out their whole length. 
Flowers on fliort peduncles, four or fix in a divided head ; 
they are yellow, and appear in July. Pods taper, with 
roundifli feeds, ripening in autumn. Native of the fouth 
of Europe, on the fea-coa(t. 
21. Lotus dorycniuin, or flirubby bird’s-foot trefoil : 
heads leaflets ; leaves feflile, quinate. This rifes with 
weak flirubby (talks, three or four feet high, fending 
out many (lender branches, thinly fet with fmall hoary 
leaves, having five leaflets, fpreading like the fingers, and 
feflile. Flowers at the extremity of the branches in (mall 
heads ; they are very fmall and white, appear at the end 
of June, or in July, continue to September, and are fuc- 
ceeded by (hort pods, containing two or three fmall round 
feeds. Native of the fouth of Europe. Cultivated be¬ 
fore 1640, by Parkinfon. 
Vahl remarks, that there are many fpecimens in the 
herbariums of feveral botanifts, fo different, that they are 
probably diftinft fpecies. Aimed all the old writers, 
fome of the moderns, and Linnaeus himfelf in his earlier 
works, made the Dorycniuin a diltinft genus. Villars 
fays it forms a genus between Lotus and Trifolium, dif¬ 
fering from the former in the (hortnefs of its legume, its 
woodinefs, its diltinft and more regular leaves, its calyx 
and very fmall flowers. It would range better with the 
trefoils, if it were not an abfurdity to (peak of a trefoil 
with quinate leaves, and if that genus were not much 
loaded with fpecies already. He makes two fpecies of 
Dorycniuin. 1. D. fuftYuticofum ; with futtYuticole up¬ 
right items. 2. D. herbaceum, with a diffufed herba¬ 
ceous (tern. 
22. Lotius medicaginoides: legumes umhelled, bowed ; 
leaflets obcordate, toothletted. Native of Siberia, refem- 
bling Medicago polymorpha when in flower, but (mailer, 
with rhe legumes of Trigonella. Doubtful whether it be 
of this genus, or a Trigonella. 
23. Lotus oligoceratos : legumes binate, round, (Iraight, 
filiated, villofe, dotted with white. Root annual. Stems 
branched, villofe, half a foot or more in height. It ap¬ 
proaches to L. anguftifiimus ; but the fteni is upright. It 
differs from L. corniculata in the Items, florefcence, life, See. 
The legume alfo is not one-celled ; nor are the feeds cy- 
lindric, but fpherical. It flowers the beginning of July 
(in Italy), and perfects the feeds by the end of that month. 
This fpecies (hould have been placed in the fir It divifion. 
Propagation and Culture. —1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 11, 20. Thefe 
are propagated by feeds, which fhould be fown early in 
April upon an open bed or border expofed to the fun, 
w here the plants are to remain ; when they come up they 
mud be thinned, leaving them near two feet afnnder, and 
afterwards they mud be kept clean from weeds, which is 
all the culture they require. 
3. The winged pea is an annual plant commonly culti¬ 
vated in flower-gardens for ornament. The (eeds are fown 
in patches, five or fix together, where they are deligned 
to remain. If the feeds all grow, fome of the plants may 
be pulled up, leaving only two or three in each patch, and 
afterwards they will require no other care but to keep 
them clean from weeds. 
1.2, 13, 16. Thefe are too tender to live abroad; the 
plants therefore are kept in pots, which in winter are 
placed in a warm airy glafs-cafe or dry l’cove, but in fum- 
mer are placed abroad in a flickered fituation. They may 
be eafily propagated by cuttings during the furumer lea- 
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fon, and alfo by feeds; but the plants which have been 
two or three times increafed by cuttings, are feldom fruit¬ 
ful. The plants are (ubject to go off at once, and there¬ 
fore new ones fhould be confiantly raifed, efpecially as 
they are beautiful, and alrnofl always in flower. 
18. This fort may be cultivated for feeding cattle in 
the fame manner as lucern. It rifes eafily from feeds, 
is very hardy, and will thrive on any light dry poor ground. 
19. Dr. Anderfon Cowed the common bird’s-foot tre-- 
foil with his ordinary hay-feeds. It grew the firft feafon 
as tall as the great clover, and was fcarcely dittinguilhablcr 
from lucern, but by the (lendernefs pf the italk, and pro¬ 
portional final!nefs of the leaf. Like lucern, it is peren¬ 
nial, fends down a long root to a great depth, at firft 
final!, but becoming at length of a confiderable fize ; fo 
that it is feveral years before it attains its full perfection ; 
but, when once eftablithed, it remains many years in full 
vigour, and produces annually a great quantity of fodder. 
In autumn 1773, he cut the Italk from an old plant in an 
indifferent foil, and, having dried if, found that it weighed 
fourteen ounces and a half. Like lucern, it is never af¬ 
fected with the fevered drought ; but it does not refemble 
that plant in delicatenefs of conftitution ; as it thrives in 
the ftiffefc clays, and ltands its ground among grafs and 
weeds. The (talks die down entirely in winter, and do 
not come up in the fpring till clover begins to advance, 
fo that it can never be of ufe but as a Cummer-pa (lure. 
Neither does it advance very faff after it is cut down, or 
eat over, even in fummer. Mr. Curtis juftly remarks; 
whether this plant be deferring of the encomiums here 
heltowed upon it, the practical farmer muff determine.- 
There appears no reafon why feed might not be obtained 
from it; and it (hould l'eem that land not ftrong enough 
to bear clover might be improved by the introduction of 
bird’s-foot trefoil. “ Auguft 18, 1797. I gave a handful 
of it in full flower and feed to a working horfe, who ate it 
greedily in preference to very good hay on which he was 
then feeding. A cow alfo in full pafture received it with 
feeming avidity.” Martyn's filler.— See Anthyllis, As- 
palathus, Celtis, Coronilla, Cytisus, DioSPYRO s , 
EbENUS, I.ND 1 G 0 FERA, LlPARIA, NyM-PHTEA, O.NONIS, 
Rhamnus, Trifolium, and Trigonella. 
LO I 'ZiN, a to ft n of Pruflia, in the province of Natan- 
gen, with a caltle ; fituated ou a canal, which joins the 
Angerburg and Leventin lakes. It is fifty-fix miles fouth- 
eaft of Konigfburg. Lat. 53. 5.3. N. Ion 21. 57. E. 
LOUCHE, a town of China, of the third rank, in Ho¬ 
nan : forty-five miles fouth-ealt of Tchen. 
LOU-KI', a town of China, of the third rank, in Kiang- 
fi •. twenty miles eaff of Kien-tchang. 
LOU-KI', a town of China, of the third rank, in Hou- 
quang,: feventeen miles fouth-weff of Tching-tcheou. 
LOLRKIANG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Kiang-nan : forty miles fouth of Lin-tcheou. 
J^OU-KIANG', a river which rifes-in the fouth-weff 
pare of China, and runs into the fea at Maftaban. In the 
Birmah dominions it is called Thalwayn, or Thanluayn. 
LOU-KI'EN, a river of China, which runs into the 
Hoang about two miles weft of Ho-kiu. 
LOU-LEANG', a city or China, of the fecond rank, in 
Yun-nan: 1145 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Pekin. Lat. 
25. 6. N. Ion. 103. 21. E. 
LOU NGAN', a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
Chen-li: 267 miles (outh-fouth-weft of Pekin. Lat. 3 G, 
42. N. Ion. 116. 54. E. 
LOU-NGAN', a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
Kiang-nan: 500 miles fouth of Pekin.. Lat. 31.48. N. 
Ion. 116. 14. E. 
LOU-PAN', a city of China, of the fecond rank, in- 
Yun-nan: 1147 miles- fouth-fouth-weft of Pekin. Lat* 
24. 50. N. Ion. 103. E. 
LOU-TCROU', a river of Thibet, which runs into the 
Sanpoo twenty-two miles fouth-weff of Tankia. 
LOU-Y', a town of China, of the third rank, in Ho-nan ; 
thirty-five miles.fouth-fouth-weft o,f Coue-te. 
LOU-Y',. 
