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long; down five-briftled, feathery, long, within which is 
a very fhort chaffy crown. In the females very fimilar; 
down with the chaffy crown alone, without feathers.— Ef- 
Jential CharaBer. Calyx fcariofe ; down chaffy; in the 
di(k feathery alfo ; receptaculum fubpaleaceous. 
Species. i. Leyfera gnaphalodes, or woolly leyfera : 
leaves fcattered ; flowers peduncled. This is an ever¬ 
green flirub, with a balfamic fmell. The trunk and older 
branches leaflefs, brown ; the younger ones very clofely 
covered with leaves, and fpreading out very wide. Leaves 
very much cluttered, filiform, fpreading, quite entire, 
hoary, woolly, flaccid, an inch long, with brown-headed 
hairs. Among thefe are bundles of very fmall leaves, like 
the rudiments of young branches, very few however of 
which come to perfection. Peduncles filiform at the ends 
of the branchlets, folitary, one-flowered. Calycine fcales 
pale, with the middle of the back green ; corolla yellow ; 
feeds brownifh. Native of the Cape of Good Hope ; in¬ 
troduced in 1774, by Mr. Frances Maffon ; it flowers from 
July to September. 
2. Leyfera callicornia, or chaffy leyfera : leaves in three 
rows; flowers fubfeflile. Receptacle flat, with raifed dots 
in the middle, naked, rugged, and having a fmgle row of 
chaffs in the circumference ; chaffs fcariofe, white, cover¬ 
ing the germs of the females externally, and fcarcely or 
but little longer. Seeds uniform, linear-oblong, com- 
preffed, fomewhat rugged at the edges, and ferruginous. 
Pappus or down difform ; in the ray fimple, chaffy, ten¬ 
leaved ; leaflets linear-acuminate, white, one-fourth of 
the length of the feed ; in the difk compofed of five rays, 
which are chaffy, linear-acuminate, very fhort; and of 
five others which are feathery, longer than the feed, and 
alternate with the others. Sometimes a Angle feathered 
ray is added to the down of the females ; and in the feeds 
of the androgynous flowers the chaffy rays are frequently 
augmented by a leaflet or two, fo that from five-leaved 
they become from fix to eight-leaved. Native of the Cape 
of Good Hope. 
3. Leyfera paleacea, or open leyfera : leaves three-fided, 
callous at the tip, and curved back. Leaves with few 
hairs on them, with a tomentofe groove on the infide. 
The whole crown of the feed membranaceous, and none 
downy. Hence it agrees in character with Buphthal- 
mum ; but it refembles the preceding fo much, as fcarcely 
to be diltinguifhed from it in appearance. L’Heritier re¬ 
moves it into a new genus, to which he has given the 
name of Relhania. Gaertner refers the fpecies with a 
naked receptacle and a compound down to Vaillant’s ge¬ 
nus of Afteropterus. 
Thunberg adds feven more fpecies to this genus, the 
fpecific charabters of which are given in his Prodromus, 
but nothing more is known concerning them. They are 
named ciliata, incana, arbfotoides, pilofella, ovata, pifta, 
and polyfolia.. 
LEYS'SARD, a town of France, in the department of 
the Ain : five miles weft of Nantua, and ten eaft of Bourg 
en Breffe. 
LEYSSE'NA, a town of Pruflia, in Oberland: five 
miles welt-north-weft of Bifchofswerder. 
LEY'TA, one of the Philippine Iflands, about 240 
miles in circumference. The foil is fertile, and is faid to 
yield two hundred for one. The mountains abound in 
deer, cows, wild hogs, and fowls ; cocoas grow without 
culture. The air is pure and healthy, and more tem¬ 
perate than at Lugon. The inhabitants are of a mild and 
peaceable temper, and hofpitable to ftrangers. They 
reckon about 9000, who pay tribute in wax, rice, or cloth. 
Lat. 10. 50. N. Ion. 124. 40. E. 
LEY'TA, a town on the north coaft of the ifland of 
Leyta, fituated in a bay. Lat. 11.20.N. Ion. 124.16. E. 
LEZA'ISKO, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia: 
fifty-fix miles welt-north-weft of Lemberg. 
LEZA'MO, a town of Spain, in the province of Alaba: 
three miles north-eaft of Orduna. 
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LEZA'NA (John-Baptift de), a learned Spanifli Car* 
melite monk, was born at Madrid in the year 1586. He 
taught philofophy, and afterwards theology, with great 
reputation at Toledo, Alcala, and Rome ; and in the city 
laft mentioned refided in the character of folicitor-gene- 
ral to his order. By popes Urban VIII. Innocent X. 
and Alexander VII. he was held in much efteem, and 
employed in various affairs of confequence. He died at 
Rome in 1659, when he w'as about feventy-three years of 
age. Among other works he publilhed, 1. Annales Sacri 
Prophetici et Eliani Ordinis Beat. Virg. Mar. de Monte 
Carmelo, 4 vols. folio, 1645-1656, abounding in abfurd 
fables relating to the origin of the order, as well as vi- 
fions and miracles. 2. De Regularium Reformatione, ex 
variis Patrum Sententiis, 1672, 4to. 3. Summa Queftic- 
num Regularium, feu de Caiibus Confcientiae, 1634 ; and 
enlarged in numerous fubfequent editions, till in 1655 it 
extended to four vols. folio. 4. Confulta varia Theo- 
logica, Juridica, et Regularia, 1651, folio. 5. Summa 
Theologiffi Saciae, two vols. folio, fame date; and a third 
volume of the work laft mentioned in 1658, folio. An- 
tonii Bibliotheca Hifpana. 
LEZANDRIEU'X, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the North Coafts : five miles north of Pontrieu, 
and four eaft of Treguier. 
LEZAT', a town of France, in the department of the 
Arriege : twenty-five miles north-weft of Mirepoix, and 
twenty-eight north-north-weft of Tarafcon. 
LEZA'Y, a town of France, in the department of the 
Two Sevres: fix miles eaft-north-eaft of Melle, and eleven 
fouth-eaft of St. Maixent. 
LEZEN'GO, a town of France, in the department of 
the Stura : four miles north-weft of Coni. 
LEZ'ERS, an Indian nation, which inhabits between 
the mouth of the Ohio and Wabafh rivers. They can 
furnifti 300 warriors. 
LEZIGNAN', a town of France, in the department of 
the Aude, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of 
Narbonne. The place contains 1505, and the canton 
6827, inhabitants, in 17 communes. 
LEZI'MO, a part of the Apennines, between Genoa 
and Piedmont; where, in 1796, the Auftrians were de¬ 
feated by the French. 
LEZLIN'GEN, a town of Weftphalia, in the Old 
Mark of Brandenburg : five miies fouth-louth-eaft of 
Gardeleben. 
LEZ'NICA. See Leesnitz, p. 443. 
LEZOU'X, a town of France, in the department of 
the Puy de Dome : feven miles wert-fouth-weft of Thiers, 
and thirteen eaft of Clermont. 
LGOV', a town of Ruflia, in the government of Kurfk, 
Lat. 48. N. Ion. 35. 54. E. 
LHAN DHE'WI BRE'VI, a village in Cardiganfhire, 
about three miles to the fouthward of Tregarron. A horn 
of an ox is here preferved in the church, of fo extraordi¬ 
nary a lize, that at the root it is feventeen inches in cir¬ 
cumference ; it is as heavy as ftone, feemingly petrified, 
and is faid to have been preferved in the church ever 
fince the time of St. David, who lived in the beginning of 
the fixth century. 
L’HERITIE'R (Charles Louis), an eminent French 
botanift, one of the moft diftinguilhed ftudents and pro¬ 
moters of the Linnaean principles and accuracy in his own 
country, was born of an opulent mercantile family at 
Paris in 1746. In 1772 he was appointed fuperintendant 
of the waters and forefts of the generalite of Paris; and, 
his abtive mind being turned to fulfil the duties of his 
office, he began to apply to botany, with a particular 
view to the knowledge of foreft-trees. Brouflonet, who 
had ftudied with fir Jofeph Banks, and was an ardent 
Linnasan, was the intimate friend of L’Heritier, and con¬ 
tributed in no fmall degree to urge him forward in his 
career. The firft fruit of his labours wa$_ a fplendid 
book, with finely-engraved plates, entitled Stirpes Nova, 
