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covered with very ftnall glutinous hairs, with other larger 
ones fteilateat top mixed among them. Native of France 
and -Spain. It flowers from June to September. Culti¬ 
vated by Mr. Miller in 1759. 
5. Lavatera Luiitanica, or Portuguefe lavatera: (lem 
fhrubby; leaves feven-angled, tomentofe, plaited ; racemes 
terminating. Native of Portugal. Cultivated by Mr. 
Miller in 1748. It flowers in Augult and September. 
6. Lavatera maritima, or fea-fide tree-mallow: Hem 
fhrubby ; leaves cordate, roundifli-lobed, crenate, tomen- 
tofe; flowers folitary. Stem reddiih, covered with bun¬ 
dles of hairs fo fmall as to feem dots of meal, branched, 
two feet high or more. Leaves on the older plants (mail, 
foraewhat plaited, five-nerved; on the younger plants and 
branches double the fize, near two inches in diameter. 
Native of Spain and the fouth of France. It flowers from 
July to September. 
Cavanilles has another fpecies (Did*. 282. t. 139.) which 
he names L. Africana, being a native of the northern part 
of Africa, as well as Spain. He fays it is allied to L. ma¬ 
ritima. The Item is fhrubby, as in that, branched, cover¬ 
ed with a fhort down, compofed of a web of hairs in bun¬ 
dles, and four feet in height. Miller has alfo a fpecies 
under the name of L. Africana, which is an annual, and 
very different from this. 
7. Lavatera Thuringiaca, or great-flowered lavatera ; 
Hem herbaceous; fruits naked; calyxes gaflied. Stem 
five or fix feet high, woolly, branched. Native of Sweden, 
Thuringia, Hungary, Tartary, in hedges. It flowers from 
July to September. 
8. Lavatera Cretica, or Cretan lavatera: Item upright, 
lower branches diffufed ; peduncles clultered, one-flow¬ 
ered ; leaves lobed, upper ones acute. Root annual, 
fibrous, of thick fibres a foot in length, with innumer¬ 
able other capillary fibres. Stem round, rugged, five feet 
high, branched. Flowers axillary, about four together, 
on upright peduncles ; corolla twice the length of the ca¬ 
lyx, pale blue, with oblong emarginate petals. Fruit 
lmootb, within the calyx ; capfules ten, round a column 
terminated by a hemifphere with a very fmall point at top, 
difappearing when the fruit is ripe, and leaving a hole 
in the middle of the capfules, which then turn black. 
Native of the ifland of Candia, or Crete. It flow'ers in 
J uJ y- 
9. Lavatera tnmeftns, or common annual lavatera : ftent 
herbaceous, rugged ; leaves fmooth; peduncles one-flow¬ 
ered ; fruits covered with a ring. Root annual, white, with 
fpreading beards. Stem round, two feet high, branched, 
the low er branches almoft horizontal. Flowers folitary, ax¬ 
illary; corollalarge,fpreading,bell-fhaped,paleflefh-colour, 
with whitilh lines; petals broader above, crenate, frequent¬ 
ly rolled up, the edges of the claws deep purple. Fruit 
hemifpherical, convex beneath, covered at top with a cir¬ 
cular, concave, fmooth, lid, or peltate umbrella : there are 
about twenty capfules in a whorl ; they are brown, clofed 
all round and not opening, with a longitudinal raifed line 
along the back, elegantly marked on the fides with flex- 
uofe ftreaks drawn from the circumference to the centre. 
Native of the fouth of Europe and the Levant. Culti¬ 
vated in 1640, according to Parkinfon. It flowers front 
July to September. 
This fpecies varies much, and the varieties are conftant. 
Hence Mr. Miller makes three fpecies out of it: 1. L. 
althsecefolia, a native of Syria, with an upright branching 
ftalk, two feet high ; the under leaves cordate-orbiculate, 
fmooth, on long footftalks; the upper divided into three 
acute lobes; the flowers on long peduncles from the axils, 
very large and fpreading open, like thole of the marlh-mal¬ 
low, of a pale red or rofe colour. There is a variety of 
it with white flowers, a. L. Africana, t. 161. f. 2. or his 
figures; native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence the 
feeds were brought to Holland. This differs from the 
preceding in the fhape of the leaves; the lower having 
angles, and the upper being arrow-pointed; thellalksare 
Jhairy, the flowers larger, and of a brighter-red colour. :. 
Vox* XII. No. 829, 
L. trimeflris is a native of Spain and Sicily. It rifes with 
flender ftalks about two feet high, covered with a brown 
bark. The lower leaves are ronndifh, and the upper'are 
angular, fome of them arrow-pointed. The flowers are 
not half fo large as either of the former, are of a pale red 
colour, and Hand on fhort peduncles. They are all an¬ 
nual herbaceous plants, flowering in July ; and the feeds 
ripen in autumn. 
Propagation and Culture. All the flirubby forts are eafily 
propagated by feeds, which ftiould be fown in the fpring 
upon a bed of light earth ; and, when the plants are about 
three or four inches.high, they fltould be tranfplanted to 
the places where they are defigned to remain ; for, as they 
(hoot out long flefhy roots which have but few fibres, they 
do not fucceed well if they are tranfplanted after they are 
grov/n large. If the feeds of thefe plants are permitted 
to fcatter on the ground, the plants will come up the fol¬ 
lowing fpring; and, when they happen to fall into dry 
rubbilh, and are permitted to grow therein, they will be 
fhort, ftrong, woody, and produce a greater number of 
thofe flowers than plants which are more luxuriant. As 
thefe plants continue a long time in flower, a few of each 
fort may be allowed a place in all gardens where there is 
room. Several of thefe flirubby forts will laft only two 
years with us, unlefs on dry ground, where they will en¬ 
dure three or four years, but feldom longer. Molt of 
them require the proteftion of the greenhoufe, or at leaffc 
.to have the ground about them covered with old tanner’s 
bark to keep out the froft in levere winters. 
The annual forts are propagated by feeds : the feafon 
for fowing them is the end of March or the beginning of 
April, upon a bed of frelh light earth ; and, when'the 
plants are come up, carefully clear them from weeds; and, 
in very dry weather, now and then refrefli them with water. 
When they are about two or three inches high, tranfplant 
them into the places where they are defigned to remain, 
which fliould be in the middle of the borders in the flow¬ 
er-garden ; for, if the foil is good, they will grow two or 
three feet high ; in tranfplanting them, take them up very 
carefully, preferving a ball of earth to their roots, other- 
wife they are apt to mifearry ; and alfo water and (hade 
them until they have taken root, after which they will re¬ 
quire no other care but to clear them from weeds, and to 
fallen them to flakes, to prevent their being injured by 
ftrong winds. You may alfo fow their feeds in autumn, 
and, when the plants are come up, tranfplant them into 
fmall pots, which, towards the end of October, fliould be 
placed in a common liot-bed frame, where the plants, be¬ 
ing defended from fevere frofts, will abide the winter very 
well ; and, in the fpring, fhake them out of the pots, and 
plant them into larger, or elfe into the full ground, where 
they may remain to flower. The plants thus managed 
will be larger, and flower ftrongerand earlier, than thofe 
fown in the fpring ; and from thefe you will conftantly have 
good feeds, whereas thofe fown in the fpring fometimes 
mifearry. 
LAVATE'RA AMERICA'NA. See Sida abuti- 
LOIDES. 
LAVA'TION, f. \lavatio, Lat. ] The aft of wafhing.— 
Such filthy fluff was by loofe lewd varlets fung before the 
chariot on the folemn day of her lavation. Hakewill. —In 
antiquity, a feaft of the Romans, in honour of the mother 
of the gods, inflituted in memory of the day when the 
worfhip of Cybele was transferred from Phrygia to Rome, 
and celebrated on the 25th of March. 
LAVATO'RIUM, J. A laundry, or place to wadi in. 
Applied to fuch a place in the porch or entrance of ca¬ 
thedral churches, where the prielt and other officiating 
members were obliged to walk their hands before they 
proceeded to divine fervice. See Liber Statut. Eccl. Paul . 
London , MS. A 59- 
LAV'ATORY, f. [from lavo, Lat.] A wafti; fome- 
thing in wiiich parts dileafed are vvaflied.— Lavatories, to 
wadi the temples, hands, wrifts, and jugulars, do potently 
profligate and keep off the venom. Harvey. 
4 C LAV'ATRINE, 
