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LIN'DEN,/. [Iinb, Sax.] The lime-tree. See Yilia. 
—Hard box, and linden of a fofter grain. Dryden. 
Two neighb’ring trees, with walls encompafs’d round, 
One a hard oak, a fofter linden one. Dryden . 
LIN'DEN, a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Culmbach : fix miles fouth of Neuftadt. 
'LIN'DEN (John-Antonides Vander), a learned phyfi- 
*ian, was born at Enchuyfen in North Holland, in 1609. 
His father, Antony-Antonides, praftifed pliyfic both at 
Enchuyfen and in Amfterdam, and wrote feveral profef- 
Sonal works. John-Antonides took his degree of dodlor 
j»f-phyfic at Franeker in 1630, and was appointed to the 
medical chair in that univerfity in 1639 ; which office he 
held till 165s, when he accepted the fame profeffbrfhip at 
Leyden. He died there in 1664.. Vander-Linden, who 
svas at ftrft a (launch follower of Hippocrates, became at 
length attached to the chemical feft, and is faid by Guy 
Fatin to have loft his life by taking antimony and refufing 
•to be blooded in a pleurify. He wrote feveral works, of 
which the belt known is his book De Scriptis Media's, firft 
publilhed in 1637, and feveral times re-edited. It is a dry 
satalogue cf medical authors and their works, but highly 
ufeful to thofe engaged in fimilar enquiries; and Haller 
aonfeffes, that he Ihotild not have been able to make his 
»wn Bibliotheca Medica tolerably perfect without the aid 
of Linden. It was continued and much augmented by 
jG. A. Mercklin, under the title of Lindenius renovatus ; 
Morirnb. 1686. Vander-Linden publilhed an edition of 
Cclfus de Re Medica, Leid. 1657. He employed much 
labour in preparing an edition of the works of Hippo¬ 
crates, which was publilhed after his death by his fon, in 
2 vols. 8vo. Gr. and Lat. Leid. 1665 ; reprinted at Na¬ 
ples 1754, and Venice 1757. He adopts the verfion of 
Cornarius, and divides the text commodioufly into heads ; 
fo that his edition is reckoned one of the beft for ufe, 
though it has incurred the cenfure of critics. He illus¬ 
trated this author in his Selefta Medica et ad ea Exerci- 
tationes, 1656, confifting of dilfertations relative to va¬ 
rious places in Hippocrates, and likewife in other ancient 
authors ; and he gave a fyftem of Hippocratic doflrine in 
his Meletemata Medicinx Hippocraticx, 1660. 
LIN'DENAU, a town of Pruffia, in the circle of Na- 
tangen : twenty-four miles fouth-vveft of Brandenburg. 
LIN'DENAU, a town of Pruffia, in the palatinate of 
Thorn : twenty miles north-eaft of Culm. 
LIN'DENAU, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Neyfle: fix miles north-weft of Patfchkau. 
LIN'DENBERG, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Bayreuth : nine miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Bayreuth. 
LIN'DENBRONN, a town of Germany, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Hohenlohe : two miles eaft of Langenburg. 
JLIN'DENBRUCH (Frederic), a learned philologift, 
was a native of Flanders, and died about 1638. He wrote 
annotations on Terence, on the fragments of certain 
Latin poets, and on Ammianus Marcellinus. He alfo 
publilhed a curious work entitled. Codex Legum Anti- 
quarum, feu Leges Wifigothorum, Burgundionum, Lon- 
gobardorum, &c. Francof. fol. 1613. 
LIN'DENFELS, a town of Germany, in the palati¬ 
nate of the Rhine: fourteen miles north-north-eaft of 
Llanheim, and eight weft of Erbach. 
LIN'DENHARDT, a town of Germany, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Bayreuth : nine miles fouth of Bayreuth. 
LIN'DER, a town of Iftria: twelve miles north-north- 
eaft of Pedena. 
LINDE'RA,/. [fo named by Thunberg, in memory 
of John Linder, a phyfician at Stockholm, afterwards en¬ 
nobled by the name of Lindeftolpe, who was born in the 
year 1678, and died in 1724. He was a celebrated Swedilh 
botanilt, and author of the Flora Wikfbergenfis, publilhed 
at Stockholm in 172S. His inaugural thefis, De Hefpe- 
ridum Pomis, was publilhed at Abo in 1702. About fix 
years afterwards appeared his treatile De Venenis, printed 
at Leyden; a pofthumous edition of which was publilhed 
Leipfic in 1735, under the direction of M. Stenzelius. 
L I N 
This is faid to be a mafterly diflertation on vegetable poL 
Tons. He was alfo the author of an eflay upon the co¬ 
louring properties of feveral Swedilh plants, particularly 
of fome lichens.] In botany, a genus of the clafs hexan- 
dria, order monogynia. The generic characters are—Ca¬ 
lyx : none. Corolla: petals fix, ovate, obtufe. Stamina: 
filaments fix, many times (hotter than the corolla : an- 
therx minute. Piltilluin : germ ovate, fmooth, fupeiior; 
ftyle upright, rather Ihorterthan the corolla : ftiginas two, 
reflex. Pericarpium : capfule two-cellcd.— EJJential Cha- 
raEler. Corolla fix-petalled. 
Lindera umbellata, a Angle fpecies. The Item is Ihrubby^ 
and loofe : branches and branchlets alternate, flexuofe, 
fmooth, fpreading very much ; leaves aggregate at the 
ends of the branchlets, petioled, oblong, acute, entire, 
above green and fmooth, underneath pale and villofe, an 
inch long. Flowers terminating, in a Ample many-flow¬ 
ered umbel ; peduncles a little hairy, unguicular; pedi¬ 
cels tomentofe, about half the length. The Japonefe ufe 
the wood for making foft brulhes to clean their teeth with. 
Lindera is alfo the name of a genus in Adanfon, 
(Families des Plantes, v. 2. 499.) by which he feems ta 
have intended to honour Dr. Lindern. See Lindernia, 
His plant appears to be a Chxrophyllum. 
LIN'DERKREUZ, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 
Neuftadt: eight miles north-weft of Weyda. 
LINDER'NIA, J. [fo called by AUioni in honour of 
Francis Balthazar von Lindern, a phyfician at Stralburg, 
who appears to have graduated at Jena, where his inau¬ 
gural diflertation, de Vermibus, was publilhed in 1707. 
As a botanift he is known from the following works ; 
Tourneforiius Alfaticus, publilhed in 8vo. at Stralburg, in 
17283 and Hortus Alfaticus, in 1747. The latter contains 
an account of the plants growing in the province of Al- 
fatia, and efpecially about Stralburg. Both the works are 
accompanied by plates.] In botany, a genus of the clafs 
didynamia, order angiofpermia, natural order of perfo- 
natae, (fcrophularix, Jujf.) The generic characters are—• 
Calyx: perianthium five-parted : divifions linear, lharp, 
permanent. Corolla : one-petalled, ringent, two-lipped. 
Upper lip very Ihort, concave, emarginated ; lower lip 
upright, three-cleft; the middle one rather larger. Sta¬ 
mina : filaments four, twin : the two fuperior ones fim- 
ple : the two inferior afeending : with a terminal upright 
tooth ; anthers twin : the inferior ones fublateral. Pif- 
tillum : germ ovate; ftyle filiform; ftigma emarginated. 
Pericarpium: capfule oval, one-celled, two-valved. Seeds: 
numerous ; receptacle cylindric.— EJJential CharaElcr. Ca¬ 
lyx five-parted ; corolla ringent, with the upper lip very 
Ihort; llamina the two lower with a terminating tooth 
and a fublateral anther; capfule one-celled. 
Species. 1. Lindernia pyxidaria ; leaves fefiile, quite en¬ 
tire; peduncles folitary. Root annual; item fmooth, fquare, 
brittle, fometimes branched and putting forth runners. 
Leaves fmall, (lightly crenate, like thofe of Anagallis, 
oppofite. Flowers axillary, folitary, on a long (lender 
peduncle; calyx cut into five acute fegments almoft to 
the bottom ; corolla pale blue. Native of Virginia, in 
watery and boggy places, flowering in July and Auguft. 
Hence it has migrated into Europe, and is now found in 
like fituations in Alface and Piedmont. 
2. Lindernia dianthera: leaves petioled, ovate-round- 
ilh, fubferrate; Item creeping. This allb is an annual 
plant, a native of Hifpaniola. Mr. Miller’s defeription 
has been already given under Erinus procumbens, vol. 
vi. p. 903. It mull have been cultivated by him before 
1733, the year of Dr. Houftoun’s death. 
3. Lindernia Japonica : leaves obovate, toothed ; the 
loweft petioled. Root annual; Item herbaceous, branched, 
weak : branches alternate, foinewhat villofe, from an inch 
to a fpan in length. Native of Japan, where it flowers 
through the fpring. 
Thefe two fpecies laft deferibed are faid by the inge¬ 
nious Mr. Brown, in his Prodromus to the Flora of New 
Holland, to be certainly different in genus from L. pyxi¬ 
daria. The fame author deferibes the three following 
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