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a line in length, fafciculated, round, obtufe, invefled with 
down. Flowers folitary, at the tops of the little branches, 
on fhort footftalks, fometimes in pairs, the fize of Staehe- 
lina fruticofa. Calyx cylindrical, downy; fcales ovate, 
scute, with a naked, elongated, fpreading point. Seeds 
without a proper crown, enfolded with hairs. Receptacle 
liairy, the hairs as long as the florets. 
LACHOW', a town of Poland, in Volhynia: twenty- 
eight miles north-weft of Conftantinow. 
LACHOWIC'ZE, a town of Lithuania, in the palati¬ 
nate of Brzefc: twenty-eight miles fouth-weft of Pinfk. 
LACH'RYMA JO'BI, or Job’s Tears. See Coix. 
■ LACH'RYMZE,/. [Latin.] The name of a doleful 
kind of mufic : 
Is your theorbo 
Turn’d to a diftaff, fignior ? and your voice, 
With which you chanted “ Room for a tally galant,” 
Turn’d to the note of lachrymne ? MoJJinger's Picture, 
LACH'RYMAL, adj. [French.] Generating tears.— 
It is of an exquifite fenfe, that, upon any touch, the tears 
might be fqueezed from the lachrymal glands, to wadi and 
clean it. Cheyne. 
LACH'RYMARY, adj. [lachryma , Lat.] Containing 
•tears.—How many drefles are there for each particular 
deity ? what a variety of fhapes in the ancient urns, lamps, 
and lachrymary veflels ? Addifon. 
LACHRYMA'TION,/; The aft of weeping, or flied- 
ding tears. 
LACH'RYMATORY, f. A fmall glafs or earthen 
phial, with a long neck, found in the fepulchres of the 
ancients. Many antiquaries have fuppofed that thefe vef¬ 
lels ferved to colleft the tears of the weeping friends that 
furvived, or of perfons hired for that purpofe. This be¬ 
lief was grounded on the appearance of the opening of 
thofe phials, which is generally furnifhed with a round 
concave part well adapted for embracing the convexity 
of the eye-ball. On fome lachrymatories are even found 
impreflions of an eye, and fometimes of a pair of eyes. 
But here, as in many other cafes, the eye appears to be 
merely emblematical. It may alfo be laid that the opi¬ 
nion of tears being preferved in thefe veflels is unfupport- 
cd by any ancient cultom we are acquainted with, or by 
any well-interpreted paflage in ancient authors. This 
opinion, abfurd in itfelf, was firft broached by Chiflet; it 
foon fpread over Europe, and was, in fpite of its impro¬ 
bability, adopted and fupported by Kirchmann, Kipping, 
and many other antiquaries. At laft it was combated by 
Scboepflin and Paciaudi; fo that at prefent it appears to 
be agreed on all fldes that the lachrymatories did never 
contain any thing but balms deftined tomoiften the fune¬ 
ral pile or the alhes of the dead, or elfe the blood of mar¬ 
tyrs. Many fpecimens of thefe phials are preferved in 
the cabinets of the curious; particularly in the Britifli 
Mufenm. 
LACH'SA, El Has'sa, or Had'sjar, a province of 
Arabia, bounded on the north by the territories of the 
wandering Arabs, in the neighbourhood of Baflora, on 
the eaft by the Perfian Gulf, on the fouth by Oman, and 
on the weft by the province of Nedsjed. It is alfo deno¬ 
minated Hadsjar, and fometimes Bahhrein. The latter of 
thefe names, in llriifl propriety, belongs only to the iflands 
of Aual, or Bahhrein. Lachfa affords no great variety of 
productions. Its afles and camels are efteemed to be of 
an excellent breed, and of the latter fome thoufands are 
annually fold into Syria. In the interior parts of this 
province, the inhabitants live much upon dates; upon 
.the coafts, pearl-fifhing is followed with advantage; and 
there is a confiderable trade in foreign commodities. This 
country was once a province of the Ottoman empire. 
The Arabs have long fince, however, fliaken off the Ot¬ 
toman yoke. Many Turks, defcended from the ancient 
pachas, Hill remain in the province, and enjoy confidera- 
We eilates; hut have no fhare in the government. The 
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province of Lachfa belongs irt fovereignty at prefent to 
the flreik of the Arabian tribe of Beni Khaled, one of 
the mod powerful in Arabia. They are fo far fpread 
through the Defert, as often to harafs the caravans pafiing 
between Bagdad and Kaleb. The greater part of Lachfa 
is inhabited by Bedouins, and other petty tribes; but 
thefe all acknowledge the dominion of the fheik of Beni 
Khaled. Little is known concerning the cities in the in¬ 
terior parts of this province. 
LACH'SA, the capital of the above province, where 
the fheik refides; fituated on the river Aftan, near the 
Perfian Gulf. Lat. 26. 56. N. Ion. 48. 34. E. 
LACH'TE, a river of Weftphalia, which runs into the 
Allier four miles eaft of Zelle. 
LACH'WA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Brzefc : fifty miles eaft of Pinfk. 
LACI'DES, a village near Athens, where Ceres and 
Proferpine had a temple. 
LA'CING, f. in fhip-building, the name of one of 
the pieces compofing the knee of the head, which is con¬ 
tinued up to the top of the hair-bracket, and to which 
the figure and the ends of the head-rails are fecured. 
LACIN'IATED, adj. [from lacinia, Lat.] Adorned 
with fringes and borders; jagged or cut into irregular 
fegments. 
LACIN'IUM, in ancient geography, a promontory of 
the Bruttii, in Italy, the fouth boundary of the Sinus Ta- 
rentinus and the Adriatic : all to the fouth of it being 
deemed the Ionian Sea; it was famous for a rich temple 
of Juno, furnained Lacinia, with a pillar of folid gold 
Handing in it. It received its name from Lacinius, a fa¬ 
mous robber, killed there by Hercules. Now Capo delle 
Cotonne, (from the columns of Juno’s temple ftill Handing,) 
on the north-eaH coaft of Calabria Ultra. 
LACIP'PO, or Lacip'pus, a town of Spain, in Bos- 
tica. 
LA'CIS, f. [from Aaxi;, Gr. a flit; fo called on ac¬ 
count of the leaves being elegantly cut.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs polyandria, order digynia. The gene¬ 
ric characters are—CalyX and corolla: none. Stamina: 
filaments very many, (forty,) capillary, winged on both 
fides below, inferted into the receptacle which is girt with 
twelve fpines ; anthera; oblong, bifid at the bafe, acute, 
incumbent. Piflillum : germ oblong, angular-flriated ; 
ftyles two, incurved; fligmas obtufe. Pericarpium; cap- 
fule ovate, eight-Hreaked, one-celled, bivalve.- Seeds very 
many, very fmall, affixed to a free ovate receptacle.— Ef- 
fential Character. Caiyx and corolla none; filaments 
winged on both fides below; receptacle girt with twelve 
fpines; capfule ovate, eight-Hreaked, one-celled, two- 
valved, many-feeded. 
Lacis fluviatilis, a Angle fpecies. Stems branching, de¬ 
cumbent; branchescylindrical, rough to the touch. Leaves 
fefiile, alternate, cut deeply into feveral lobes which are 
again equally cut into curled lobes; they are rough to the 
touch on both fides, divided their whole length by a large 
falient nerve, whence arife lateral nerves that diverge over 
each of the larger lobes; and thefe throw out others which 
fpread over the fmaller lobes : the larger leaves are two 
feet and a half in length, and one foot in breadth ; un¬ 
derneath at each angle formed by the nerves, there is a 
fpine four or five lines in length. At the ends of the Hem 
and branches come out the flowering-branches, two feet 
long and more, the upper part of which for a foot in 
length is convex on one fide, and channelled on the 
other; the flowers are placed along each edge of this im- 
bricately in two rows ; the bottom is cylindrical, naked, 
and has only one or two fmall leaves near its origin. 
Braftes to each flower, three, two internal oppofite, co¬ 
vered by a larger one, falling off foon after the cxpanficn 
of the flower. Peduncle an inch long, with a membrana¬ 
ceous fheath and three fcales at the bafe. Filaments pur¬ 
ple with yellow antheras. This plant is called mourerou by 
the Caribs; and thence Aublet, as is ufual with him, has 
formed his generic name. It is a native of Guiana, and 
