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13. Laferpitium ferulaceum, or fennel-leaved lafer- 
wort: leaflets linear. Native of the Levant; flowers in 
June. 
14. Laferpitium flmplex, or Ample lafer-wort: fcape 
naked, leaflets Ample; leaves pinnate, multifld, acute, li¬ 
near, umbel femi-globular. Root perennial, knobbed, 
and often multiplied at top, fo as to produce feveral Items. 
Leaves deep green, bipinnate like thofe of Carui, but lefs 
fine. Stem only two or three inches high, (lender, up¬ 
right, ftriated ; terminated by a folid, rounded, reddifh 
umbel. Native of the mountains of Swiflerland, Auftria, 
and Dauphine. 
15. Laferpitium aciphylla, or (harp-leaved, lafer-wort: 
Item (heathed; petioles dilated; leaves digitate, linear, 
elongated, mucronate. Forfler made of this fpecies a 
new genus, which he named Aciphylla , from the (harpnefs 
of the leaves like needles. Native of New Zealand : found 
in Queen Charlotte’s Sound, November 6th, 1774. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants, having no great 
beauty, and taking up much room, are feidom cultivated 
except in botanic gardens. The roots extend widely, and 
the leaves of fome forts fpread three feet, when the plants 
are ftrong; the flower-ftalks rife four orflve feet high, and 
the umbels of flowers are very large. Moft of them are 
very hardy, and will thrive in any foil or Atuation. Sow 
the feeds in autumn, and the plants will come up in the 
fpring; but, when they are fown in fpring, the feeds com¬ 
monly remain in the ground a whole year. Tranfplant 
them the following autumn where they are deflgned to re¬ 
main ; for they fend out long deep roots, which are fre¬ 
quently broken by tranfplanting when large. Place them 
three feet afunder. The plantsdecay to the ground every 
autumn, but the roots continue many years, and require 
no other culture but to clear them from weeds, and to dig 
between the roots every fpring. The thirteenth fort re¬ 
quires a warmer Atuation, otherwife it will be killed in 
(harp winters. See Ferula and Selinum. 
LASER'RA, a town of the ifland of CorAca: ten miles 
north-eaft of Sarcene. 
LASGRUF'VA, a town of Sweden, in Helflngland : 
fifty-eight miles eaft of Hudwickfwal. 
LASH, f. [The moft probable etymology of this word 
feems to be that of Skinner, from fcklagen, Dut. to ftrike; 
whence Jlafh and lajh. J A ftroke with any thing pliant 
and tough: 
Rous’d by the lafi of his own ftubborn tail. 
Our lion now will foreign foes affail. Drydcn. 
The thong or point of the whip which gives the cut or 
blow.—I obferved that your whip wanted a lajh to it. 
Addifon. 
Her whip of cricket’s bone, her lafi of Aim, 
Her waggoner a fmall grey-coated gnat. Shahefpeare. 
A leafli, or firing in which an animal is held ; a fnare: 
Out of ufe: 
The farmer they leave in the lajh, 
With Ioffes on every fide. Tujfer's Hujbandry. 
A ftroke of fatire; a farcafm.—-The moral is a lafi at the 
vanity of arrogating that to ourfelves which fucceeds well. 
L' Eft range. 
To LASH, v. a. To ftrike with any thing pliant; to 
fcourge : 
And limping death, lajh'd on by fate. 
Comes up to fliorten half our date. Drydcn. 
To move with a fudden fpring or jerk : 
The club hung round his ears, and batter’d brows; 
He falls; and, lafiing up his heels, his rider throws, Dryd. 
To beat; to ftrike with a (harp found: 
The winds grow high. 
Impending tempefts charge the fky; 
The lightning flies, the thunder roars. 
And big waves lafn. the frighted (hores. 
Vol. XII. No. 827. 
To fcourge with fatire: 
Could penfion’d Boileau laf, in honeft flrain, 
Flatt’rers and bigots even in Louis’ reign. Pope. 
To tie any thing down to the fide or mall of a fliip: pro¬ 
perly to lace. 
To LASH, v. n. To ply the whip. — Let men out of 
their way lajh on ever fo fall, they are not at all the nearer 
their journey’s end. South. 
Wheels clafli with wheels, and bar the narrow ftreet; 
The lajking whip refounds. Gay's Trivia. 
To ftrike with any weapon held in the hand : 
He through long fufferance growing now more great, 
Rofe in his ftrength, and gan her frefli alfayle 
Heaping huge ftrokes as thicke as fliowre of hayle. 
And lajhing dreadfully at ev’ry part, 
As if he thought her fioule to difentrayle. Spenfer. 
LASH'A, [Hebrew.] The name of a place. 
LASH'ARON, [Hebrew.] The name of a place. 
Jofi. xii. 
LASH'ER, f. One that whips or ladies. 
LASH'ING, f. The aft of beating with a whip; the 
aft of fcourging with fatire; the aft of tying down with 
ropes; the rope with which any thing is laftied. 
LASH'ITE, or Lash'lite,./! A kind of forfeiture dur¬ 
ing the government of the Danes in England. 
LASH'OM JAM'NAS, a town of Egypt, on the coaft 
of the Mediterranean: twelve miles north-weft of Da- 
mietta. 
LA'SIA, in ancient geography, an ifland fituated on 
the coaft of Lycias.—An ifland on the coaft of the Pelo- 
ponnefus, over-againft Troezene.—One of the names of 
the ifle of Andros. 
LA'SIA, f. [from Aao-isj, Gr. hairy or briftly ; becaule 
the plant is befet with numerous little briftles or prickles. ] 
In botany, a genus of the clafs tetrandria, order mono- 
gynia, natural order piperitse, Linn, (aroideae, Juff.) The 
generic charaftersare—Calyx: fpathe awl-fhaped, twilted, 
coloured, very long. Spadix (hotter than the fpathe, en¬ 
tirely covered with florets. Corolla: petals four, flefliy, 
obtufe, concave, clofely embracing the organs of impreg¬ 
nation. Stamina: filaments four, fliort, flat, hidden by 
the petals ; antherse two to each filament, rounded, con¬ 
cave, protruding beyond the corolla. Piftillum : germen 
fuperior, roundifli; ftyle none; ftigma rather abrupt. 
Pericarpium : berry fmall; roundifli, unequal. Seed fo- 
litary, roundifli.— EJfential CharaEler. Spadix covered with 
florets; petals four, flefliy, inferior ; antherse two to each 
filament; berry with one feed. 
Lafia aculeata, a fingle fpecies ; the cu chaoc gai, of the 
Cochin-chinefe. A ftemlefs plant, fix feet high, with large 
pinnatifid leaves, on long, round, upright, (talks. Na¬ 
tive of the moift plains of Cochin-china. 
LASIAN'THUS, f. in botany. See Gordonia; 
LA'SIO, in ancient geography, a town of the Pelopon- 
nelus, or Triphyfia.—Alfo, a mountain in the ifland of 
Crete, on which was the tomb of Jupiter. 
LASIOPET'ALUM, /. [from the Gr. Tiacrioj, hairy, 
and nilaXov, a petal; alluding to the hairinefs of the flow¬ 
er.] Woolly Blossom; in botany, a genus of the clafs 
pentandria, order monogynia, natural order of rhamni, 
Jujf. The generic charafters are—Calyx: perianthium in¬ 
ferior, of one leaf, wheel-fliaped, hairy, in five deep, equal, 
ovate, folded, at length expanded, feginents, permanent, 
often coloured. Corolla: petals five, minute, roundifli, 
inferted into the bafe of the calyx between its fegments. 
Stamina: filaments five, very (hort, oppofite to the petals; 
antherse terminal, ovate, two-lobed behind, opening by 
two pores at the top. Piftillum : germen fuperior, glo- 
bofe, with three furrows, very hairy ; ftyle fliort, ftraight, 
fmooth ; ftigma Ample, acute. Pericarpium : capfule in¬ 
verted with the calyx, nearly globofe, with three angles, 
downy, of three cells, and three valves; partitions from 
the centre of each valve. Seeds: few, roundifli, inferted 
3 U into 
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