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great beaut}'. The wings of the ffcm are narrower than 
in fylvejlris. The figure in the Flora Danica reprefents 
thirteen flowers, rather red than blue. Native of many 
parts of Europe, in moift woods and paftures, but in Eng¬ 
land not common. 
23. Lathyrus pififormis, or Siberian lathyrus: pedun¬ 
cles many-flowered ; tendrils many-leaved ; ftipules ovate, 
broader than the leaflet. Plant growing like the pea. 
Corolla with the ftandnrd and wings whitiflt with purple 
veins (Miller fays blue). The leaflets are convolute, as 
in Pifum maritimum and Ochrus ; not involute,as in mod 
of the Lathyri. Native of Germany and Siberia; flowers in 
June. 
.Lathyrns Parifier.fis of Miller is different from all the 
above. It belongs to the firft divifion, having one-flow¬ 
ered peduncles. He deferibes it as an annual plant, with 
a {lender ftalk, about a foot high. Leaves compofed of 
feveral narrow leaflets, placed alternately. The flowers 
come out fingly upon pretty long peduncles; they are 
blue, and about the fl/.e of thofe of the common tare. 
From his fpecimens in the Bankfian Herbarium, which 
came from the Paris garden, it appears that the leaflets 
are often in two pairs, but that the number varies exceed¬ 
ingly, from one to fix or feven. Some of the tendrils are 
Ample, others branched. The Jfem is winged, and the 
rachis of the leaves remarkably fo. It has a glaucous 
hue. Miller feems to have confounded it with our L. pa- 
luftris, from which it is very different. 
Of Mr. Miller’s laft Lathyrus we know nothing. He 
calls it L. Americanus; it is one of Houftoun’s plants 
found at Vera Cruz, and belongs to the fecond divifion, 
having two-fiovvered peduncles. It is an annual plant, 
with a trailing ftalk a foot long; a fingle kidney-fhaped 
leaf, veined beneath, at each joint; flowers frnall, of a 
deep yellow colour ; fucceeded by fliort taper pods, in¬ 
cluding three or four frnall roundifh feeds. Houftoun 
names it Niffblia Americana procumbens, folio rotunda, fore 
luteo. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe may all be propagated 
by Cowing their feeds either in fpring or autumn ; but 
■thofe which are fowed in autumn fliould have a light foil 
and a warm fituation, where the plants will abide the 
winter, and come to flower early the following l'pring, 
and their feeds will ripen in July; but thofe which are 
fown in the fpring fliould have an open expofure, and may 
be planted upon almoft any foil, if not too wet, for they 
are not tender plants, nor do they require much culture : 
thefe forts fliould all of them be fown where they are de- 
ifigned to remain, for they feldom fucceed when they are 
tranfplanted, unlefs it is done while the plants are young ; 
fo that, where they are fown for ornament, there fliould 
be four or five feeds fown in a frnall patch, in different 
parts of the borders of the flower-garden; and, when the 
plants come up, they fhould be carefully kept clear from 
weeds; but, when they are grown two or three inches 
high, there fliould be fome flicks put down by them to 
ifupport them, otherwife they will trail on the ground, or 
cn whatever plants hand near them, and become unfight- 
ly. The eleventh fort, with the varieties of it, are deferv- 
ing of room in every good garden for the beauty and 
odour of their flowers; and the fourteenth fort is by fome 
cultivated for the colour of the flowers ; but there are 
few of the other forts worthy of room in gardens, except 
fhe twentieth fort, which, if it be planted in a proper iitu- 
ation, and rightly trained, will make a fine appearance. 
The feeds of L. favitus are fown, in the countries where 
it is cultivated for fodder or the feed, at the end of Auguft, 
or the beginning of September, or in the fpring; in flrong 
ground ; for in a light dry foil the roots are very weak, 
and it is apt to he delfroyed by fpring frofts. Its pro¬ 
duce is abundant; and the culture, not being expenfive, 
is very general in fome parts of Europe. 
The gardeners, who raife fweet peafe (L. odoratus) for 
the London markets, fow them in the autumn in pots, and 
fecqre theta. from fevexe weather by placing them in hot- 
LAT 
bed frames; by which means they can bring them early 
to market. They may be continued in flower the whole 
fummer by repeated fbwings in the fpring. When fown 
in pots they muft be watered frequently. Tuberous la¬ 
thy rus is as noxious a weed to the hufbandman as finall 
bindweed, (Convolvulus arvenfis,) and equally difficult to 
extirpate. The tubers of the root are in high efteem in 
fome countries as an article of food, and the plant is ea- 
fily propagated either by thefe or the feed. With us the 
former method only can be prabiifed. It thrives befl on 
light ground. See Orobus and Vicia. 
LA'TIA, in mythology, the wife of Saturn. 
LATIA'LIS, one of the names of Jupiter. 
LATIA'NO, a town of Naples, in the province of 
Otranto: five miles eaft of Oria. 
LATIAR', a feaft or ceremony, inftituted by Tarqui- 
nius Superbus, in honour of Jupiter Latiaris, or Latialis. 
Tarquin, having made a treaty of alliance with the Lati- 
ans, propofed, for perpetuating it, to eredt a common tem¬ 
ple, where all the allies, the Romans, Latins, Hernici, 
Volfci, &c. fliould affemble themfelves every year,, hold a 
kind of fair, exchange merchandifes, feafl, facriiice, and 
make merry together. Such was the inflitution of the 
Latiar. The founder only appointed one day for this 
feafl; the firft conful added another to it, upon conclud¬ 
ing the peace with the Latins; a third was added, af¬ 
ter the people wlio had retired to the Mons Sacer were re¬ 
turned to Rome ; and a fourth, after appeafing the fedi- 
tion raifed on occalion of the plebeians alpiring to the 
confulate. Thefe four days w'ere called the Latin ferice ; 
and all things done during the courfe of the ferite, as fealts, 
facrifices, offerings. See. were called Latiares. See Ferine. 
Latinxe, vol. vii. p. 325. 
LAT'IBLE, f. [from the Lat. lateo, to be hid.] A. 
hiding-place. Cole. 
LAT'ICLAVE, f. [ laticlavium , Lat.] In Roman anti¬ 
quity, was an honourable diftinftion, peculiar, in the 
times of the republic, to the lenators; but whether it was- 
a particular kind of garment, or only an ornament upon 
it, the critics are not agreed : but the more general opi¬ 
nion is, that it was a broad ftripe of purple iewed upon 
the fore-part of their tunic, and round the middle of the 
breaft. There were buttons fet on the latus clavus, or lati- 
clave, which appeared like the heads of large nails, whence 
fome think it derived its name. The fenators, praetors, 
and chief magiftrates of colonies and municipal cities, had 
a right to wear it. L'he pratexta was always worn over 
it; but, when the praetor pronounced fentence of death, 
the prsetexta was then put off, and the laticlave retained. 
The laticlavium differed from the anguficlavium, but au¬ 
thors do not agree in what this difference confifted ; the 
rnoft general opinion feems to be, that the flips or ftripes 
of purple were narrower in the angufticlave, as its name 
imports. 
LAT'ICZOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw : fixty miles north-weft of Braclaw. 
LATIFO'LIOUS, adj. [from the Lat. latus, broad, and 
folium, a leaf.] Having broad leaves; broad leaved. 
LATIL'LA (Gaetano), an excellent Neapolitan com- 
pofer of the laft century, much efteemed by connoiffeurs, 
in every fpecies of vocal mufic. His comic operas w'ere 
the rnoft fuccefsful of ail burletta compofitions, till the 
Buona Figliuola of his nephew Piccini came out, which 
furpaffed all preceding comic operas fo much, that no other 
excited any curiofity in the public, till Paefieilo’s fuperior 
fertility was known and felt. Latiila’s comic operas, that 
were performed in London, from 1748 to 1753, were La 
Comedia in Comedia, Orazio, and Don Calafcine. The 
melodies were new, eafy, and pleafing; the humour with¬ 
out bulfoonery. Latilla finifhed his courfe about the year 
1780, at Venice, in the humble ftation of deputy-or- 
ganift at the church of St. Mark. He was an intelligent 
and well-informed man on other fubjedfs befides his own 
profeflion, which, however, he had cultivated in all its 
departments. 
LATTMER, 
