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high, entire, having three or four joints, fearce apparently 
rugged. A Tingle flower terminates the ftem, nodding 
horizontally. Native of the mountains of Lapland and 
Siberia. In the latter it occurs with feveral flowers on 
the ftem. 
Mr. Miller has another fort, which he calls L. Lufita- 
nica, it having been introduced from Portugal by John 
Browning, efq. of Chelfea, a mailer in chancery, and a 
great cultivator of exotic plants, before 1759. He thinks 
it probably a variety of one with tingle flowers that is 
wild in that country, and that it approaches neareft to the 
double ragged robin. It is perennial, with many oblong 
narrow' leaves fitting dole to the ground. It divides into 
leparate heads, like L. vilcaria ; and from each of tliefe 
comes out an upright ftalk nine inches high, dividing at 
top by pairs, and from the middle of each divifion comes 
out a llender peduncle two inches long, with one double 
purple flower at the top, the petals of which are much 
jagged, arid the calyx marked with deep purple ftripes; 
there are other peduncles from the axils, fullaining one or 
two flowers.—May not this be a variety of L. lasta, N° 8 ? 
Propagation and Culture. Single fcarlet lychnis is ealily 
propagated by feeds, which fliould bfe fown on a border 
expoled to- the eaft, in the middle of March. The plants 
will appear in April, when, if the feafon is dry, they 
fliould be refrefhed with water two or three times a-week. 
By the beginning of June the plants will be fit to remove, 
when there fliould be a bed of common earth prepared to 
receive, them } into which they fliould be planted at about 
four inches apart, obferving to water and (hade them till 
they have taken root ; after which time they will require 
110 other care but to keep them clean from weeds till the 
following autumn, when they fliould be tranfplanted into 
the borders of the pleafure-ground, where they are to con¬ 
tinue. The fummer following, thefe plants will flower 
and produce ripe feeds; but the roots will abide feveral 
years, and continue to flower. This fort flowers in June 
and July, and the feeds ripen in autumn. It may alio be 
propagated by ofF-fets; but, as the feeds ripen lo freely, 
few perfons trouble themfelves to propagate the plants 
any other way. Double fcarlet lychnis is propagated by 
Hips taken from the roots in autumn ; but, as this is a flow 
method of increaling the plants, the bell way to have 
them in plenty, is to cut off the flower-flalks in June, be¬ 
fore the flowers appear, which may be cut into fmall 
lengths, each of which fliould have three or four joints, 
which fliould be planted on an eaft border of foft loamy 
earth, putting three of the joints into the ground, leaving 
one eye juft level with the lurface ; thefe mud be watered, 
and then covered clofe with bell or hand glaffes, fo as to 
exclude the outward air, and (haded.with mats when the 
fun fliines hot upon them. The cuttings fo managed will 
put out roots in five or fix weeks, when they mult be ex- 
pofed to the open air; and in very dry weather they 
fliould be now and then refrefhed witli water; but it mult 
not be repeated too often, nor given in large quantities ; 
for too much moifture will caufe them to rot. Thefe 
will make good plants by the following autumn, when 
they may be tranfplanted into the borders of the pieafure- 
.garden, where they will flower the following fummer. 
The Angle meadow-lychnis is not kept in gardens, 
though by no means dellitute of beauty ; but the variety 
with very double flowers is propagated for ornament. It 
is commonly known by the name of double ragged robin ; 
and is increafed by flipping the roots in September. Vif- 
cous lychnis, or red German catchfly, was formerly cul¬ 
tivated in flower-gardens; but, fince the variety with 
double flowers has been produced, the Angle one has been 
neglected. It may however be propagated in plenty by 
parting the roots in autumn, at which time every flip will 
grow ; or, if the feeds are fown in the fame manner as is 
diredled for the fir ft fort, the plants with Angle flowers 
may be raifed in plenty. This delights in a light moift 
foil and a ftiady fituation. Tne double-flowering catchfly 
•tus, not been known forty years in the Englifli gardens j 
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but it is now fo common as to have excluded that with- 
Angle flowers. As this never produces feeds, it can only 
be propagated by parting and flipping the roots; the bell 
time for this is in autumn, at which time every flip will 
grow. If this be performed in September, the flips will 
have taken good root before the froft, and will flower well 
the following fummer ; but, if they are expefled to flower 
flrong, the roots mult not be divided into fmall flips, 
though, for riiultiplying the plants, it matters not how 
fmall the flips are. Thefe fliould be planted on a border 
expofed to the morning fun, and (haded when the fun is 
warm till they have taken root. If the flips are planted 
in the beginning of September, they will be rooted ltroug 
enough to plant in the borders of the flower-garden by the 
middle or latter end of Ofiober. The roots of this mul¬ 
tiply fo fall, as to make it neceflary to tranfplant and part 
them every year; for, when they are let remain longer, 
they are very apt to rot. 
The double varieties of red and white wild campions, 
commonly called bachelor's buttons , are ornamental plants, 
and continue long in flower. They are propagated by 
flips, planted the beginning of Auguft in a ftiady border 
of loamy earth, where they will take root in fix weeks or 
two months, and may then be tranfplanted into the bor¬ 
ders of the flower-garden. Thefe roots fliofild be annu¬ 
ally removed, otherwife they frequently rot; and youm* 
plants mull he propagated by flips to lupply the decay of 
the old roots, which are not of very long duration. The 
red thrives bell in a foft loamy foil, and in a ftiady fitua¬ 
tion, where it has only the morning fun. The double 
white does not make lo good an appearance as the red ; 
but it will thrive in a drier foil, and a more open expofure. 
See Agrostemma, Cerastium, Cherleria, Cucuba- 
lus, Frankenia, Gypsothila, Holosteum, Phlox, 
Plumbago, Saponaria, Silene, and Velezia. 
LYCH'NIS, Bale. See Phlox. 
LYCH'NIS, Wild. See Agrostema. 
LYCHNI'TIS. See Amellus and Verbascum. 
L\ CH'NOBI PE, f. [from Gr. "Kvyyoe, a candle, and 
life.] One that turns the day into night; one that 
does his bulinefs by night, and deeps by day. 
LYCHNOI'DES. See Arenaria and Phlox. 
LY'CIA, in ancient geography, a country of Alia 
Minor, bounded by the Mediterranean on the louth, Ca- 
ria on the welt, Pamphyiia on the eaft, and Phrygia on 
the north. It was anciently called Alilyt/s and Tremile, 
from the Milyae, or Solymi, a people of Crete, who came 
to fettle there. The country received the name of Lycia 
from Lycus the fon of Pandion, who eltablilhed himfelf 
there. The inhabitants.have been greatly commended by 
all the ancients for their fobriety and jultice. They were 
conquered by Croelus king of Lydia, and afterwards by 
Cyrus. Though they were fubjefl to the power of Perlia, 
yet they were governed by theirown kings, and only paid 
a yearly tribute to the Perfian monarch. They became 
part of the Macedonian empire when Alexander came / 
into the eaft ; and afterwards were ceded to the houle of 
the Seleucidse. The country was reduced into a Roman 
province by the emperor Claudius, 
LY'CIDAS, a Centaur, killed by the Lapithae at the 
nuptials of Pirithous. Ovid. —A fhepherd’s name. Virg.. __ 
A beautiful youth, the admiration of Rome in the age of 
Horace. Horace, Ode 4. 
LY'CII SIMILIS, or Lycioides. See Sideroxylon, 
LY'CIUM,y. [fo called, as is generally luppofed, from 
Lycia, its native country ; but what was the precile plant 
intended, has never been fettled by commentators. Diof- 
corides deferibes it as a “fpinous tree, with twigs three 
cubits or more in length, bearing thick-let leaves, like 
box. The fruit is like pepper, black thick-fet, bitter, and 
frnooth. Bark pale. Roots woody.” This defeription 
accords in many points with Come (pecies of the received 
Lycium ; but with none, that we are acquainted with, in 
every point.] Box thorn ; in botany, a genus of the 
clafs pentandria* order monogynia, natural order of lu¬ 
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