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fpherical, ferrate, fix-valved ; the four outer valves and 
lid plaited. Inhabits the North Seas; fixed to the Oitrea 
Iflandica and others ; a (mail fpecies. 
24. Lepas ariguftata, the narrow barnacle : (ltell elon¬ 
gated, fmooth, fix-valved; the aperture narrow; lid very 
minute. Valves with a groove at the point of conjunc¬ 
tion ; fometimes ftriate with red and white. 
25. Lepas porofa, the porous barnacle: (hell granulate, 
ftriate, conic, tubular; lid obtufe. Inhabits India; when 
frefli it is green on the outfide, but afterwards becomes 
black above and white beneath. 
26. Lepas elongata, the long barnacle: (hell cylindri¬ 
cal, fnowy pellucid, fix-valved, and cleft above; lid ob¬ 
tufe, grooved, and tranfverfely ftriate. Inhabits Iceland; 
a very rare fpecies. Hardly five lines broad and above 
three inches long; tranfverfely annulate, and knotty here 
and there beneath. 
27. Lepas patellaris, the limpet-barnacle : (hell fix- 
valved ; outwardly violet mixed with white, and marked 
with fine longitudinal (trite ; within falcate ; valves den¬ 
ticulate at the margin. Inhabits Coromandel ; a very 
rare fpecies. Teeth of the valves alternately inferted in 
each other. 
28. Lepas fpinofa, the prickly barnacle: ftiell conic, 
with twelve triangular valves ; fix of them more deprefi'ed, 
lefs, and whitifh, tranfverfely ftriate; fix purple, and lon¬ 
gitudinally ftriate; all armed with tubular recurved fpines. 
Inhabits India. 
29. Lepas violacea, the violet-barnacle: (hell thick, 
glabrous, (ix-valved, white with violet rays. Inhabits 
India. 
30. Lepas pollicipes, the beaked barnacle: (hell com- 
prefled, ereft, many-valved, fmooth ; feated on a (liort 
hard fcaly coriaceous peduncle. Inhabits the Mediterra¬ 
nean. The four larger valves turned towards each other 
like the beak of a bird; fmall ones more than twenty. 
31. Lepas cylindrica, the cylindrical barnacle: (hell 
cylindrical, (lightly curved, with a very large oblique ori¬ 
fice; lip horned. Inhabits the (hores of Africa, under 
the torrid zone. 
32. Lepas crifpata, the w-reathed barnacle: {hell oval- 
truncate, conic, with fix bluifti valves (haded with white, 
and fix elevated reddifh ones fpinous and perpendicularly 
ftriate. This fpecies is frequently found perforated by 
the Teredo; about an inch high. 
33. Lepas cariofa, the worm-eaten barnacle: ftiell folid, 
white, deprefled with carious grooves, within unequally 
fmooth. Inhabits the Kurile Hlands. 
34. Lepas ftroemia, the Danifli barnacle : conico-con- 
vex, with four ferrate-ftriate valves; lid two-valved. In¬ 
habits the North Seas. 
LETE, a town of Spain, in the province of Seville, 
celebrated for its grapes, figs, and wine : ten miles eaft 
of Ayamonte. 
LEPECHIN'IA, f [fo named by Willdenow, in his 
Hortus Berolinenfis, as a tribute of refpeft to the labours 
of John Lepechin, of the Academy of Sciences at St. Pe- 
terfburg, who publifhed various trafts upon natural hif- 
tory in the Tranfaftions of that Society. He appears to 
have been an able chemift as well as naturalift, and to 
have travelled through various provinces of the Ruffian 
empire in the years 1768 and 1769. We are unable to 
difcover either the time of his birth or of his death, 
though from the date of his Travels he muft have lived 
about the middle of the laft century.] In botany, a genus 
of the clafs didynamia, order gymnofpermia, natural or¬ 
der verticillatse, Linn, (labiatse, JuJf.) Generic efl'ential 
character—Calyx two-lipped; upper lip of the corolla 
cloven, lower one deeply divided into three nearly equal 
fegments. Stamens fpreading. 
Lepechinia fpicata, the only fpecies defcribed: fpikes 
of flowers on bracleated footftalks ; leaves ovate, crenate, 
truncated at the bale. The native country of this hardy 
perennial plant is unknown. The fpecies ih quellion was 
introduced into the royal garden at Kew in the year 
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1800, by Mr. John Hunneman, who receded it from his 
iriend Willdenow in Germany. By the above fpeciric 
character, we prefume there are other fpecies. 
LEPEI GA, a town ot Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Gangpour: thirty miles fouth-fouth-wefl of Gangpour. 
LEPEL', a town of Ruflian Lithuania: fifty-five miles 
fouth eaft of Polotlk. 
LEP'ER, f. [lepra, leprofus, Lat.] One infeffed with a 
leprofy.—The leper in whom the plague is, his clothes 
(hall be rent. Lev. ,xiii. 45. 
LEP'ER’s PSLAND, one of the New Hebrides, in the 
South Pacific Ocean, fo called by the Monf. Bougainville, 
who vifited it in 1768, and found the inhabitants in oe- 
neral devoured with the leprofy.' Lat. 15.21. N/ Ion 
168. 4. E. 
LEPE'ROUS, adj. [for leprous, to make out a verfe.] 
Caufing leprofy; infected with leprofy; leprous; 
Upon my fecure hour thy uncle dole. 
With juice of curfed hebenon in a vial, 
And in the porches of mine ears did pour 
The leperous diftilment. Shakefpeare's Hamlet. 
LEP'ID, adj. [from the Lat. lepidus, pleafant.] Plea- 
fant, jocund, witty. Phillips. 
LEP'IDA (Domitia), a daughter of Drufus and An¬ 
tonia, great niece to Augultus, and aunt to the emperor 
Nero. _ She is defcribed by Tacitus as a common profti- 
tute, infamous in her manners, violent in her temper, 
but celebrated for her beauty. She was put' to death by 
means of her rival Agrippina, Nero’s mother. 
LEPIDAG'ATHIS, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs 
didynamia, order angiofpermia. Generic eflential charac¬ 
ters—Calyx many-leaved, imbricate; corolla two-lipped; 
the upper lip very fmall, lower lip three-parted : capfule 
two-celled, two-valved. 
Lepidagathis criftata, a Angle fpecies. Stems woody, 
diffufe, branched ; leaves oppofite, feflile, linear, obtufe, 
entire, glabrous, rough at the edge: flowers in heads: 
feales of the calyx mucronate; the inner-ones pubefeent. 
Native of the Eaft Indies. 
LEPID'ITY, /. Pleafantry. Cole. 
LEPID'IUM, f. [from ?iS7n;, Gr. a feale.] Pepper- 
wort, Dittander, See. in botany, a genus of the clafs 
tetradynamia, order filiculofa, natural order of filiquofre 
or crnciformes, (crucifer x, Juff.) The generic chara< 5 Iers 
are—Calyx: perianthium four-leaved ; leaflets ovate, c r .:~ 
cave, deciduous. Corolla: four-petalled, crofs-fhaped ; 
petals obovate, twice the length of the calyx : with nar¬ 
row claws. Stamina: filaments fix, awl-ftiaped, length 
of the calyx, the two oppofite ones fhorter 5 antherae Am¬ 
ple. Piftillum : germ heart-fhaped ; ftyle fimple, length 
of the ftamens; ftigma obtufe, Pericarpium: filicle 
heart-fhaped, emarginate, comprefled, (harp on the mar¬ 
gin, tw'o-celled; valves navicular, keeled, oppofite the 
lanceolate diflepiment. Seeds: ftome ovate-acuminate, 
narrower at the bafe, nodding.— EJfential CharaElcr. Sili- 
cle emarginate, cordate, many-feeded: valves keeled, 
contrary. 
Species. 1. Lepidium perfoliatum, or various-leaved 
pepperwort: ftem-leaves pinnate-multifid; branch-leaves 
cordate, embracing, entire. Root annual; Hem about a 
foot high, round, upright, fmooth, tinged with purple, 
dividing into many (lender branches. Root-leaves and 
lower (tern-leaves, and fometimes the lowed on the 
branches, bipinnatifid, with narrow, acuminate, flat, feg¬ 
ments; the next to thefe, lefs divided, have an entire em¬ 
bracing bafe; the upper ones are all quite entire, heart- 
fliaped, embracing, fome (harp, others blunt; all glau¬ 
cous, (omewhat thick ; fome very fmooth, others having 
hairs at the edge and on the upper furface, vifible only 
with a glafs. Flowers in corymbs, or long loofe fpikes* 
from the ends of the branches; they are fmall and corn* 
prefled : calycine leaflets blunt, upright, yellowifti-green, 
two oblong, the other two twice as broad and ovate: pe¬ 
tals fpatulate, narrow, yellow, flat, blunt, a little longer 
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