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hind by bis father. But the career of this excellent man 
was cut fliort by a bilious fever, which concluded with a 
ftroke of apoplexy, November i, 1783, in the forty-fecond 
year of his age. His remains were interred with great 
folemnity on the 30th of the fame month. His coffin was 
laid by the fide of his father; and, as the male line of the 
family concluded in him, their coat of arms was broken 
over the grave. After this ceremony, the gardener of the 
nniverfity ftrewed flowers over the mingled afhes of the 
father and the fon. A funeral oration in Swedith was pro¬ 
nounced by M. Von Schulzenheim, and was foon after 
publifhed. This compofition, partly tranflated, and much 
enlarged, in the Englifli edition, by Trapp, of Stoever’s 
Life of Linnaeus, has afforded much of the fubftance of 
this article. 
The younger Linnaeus is faid to have had naturally a 
flrrong and vigorous frame of body, and to have inherited 
his father’s keen and penetrating eyes, as well as his tem¬ 
per and aftive difpofition. He was greatly beloved by 
thofe who knew him, and died generally refpeffed and 
lamented. His mufeum and library reverted to his mo¬ 
ther and filters, as he had never been married; and the 
former inltantly fixed her eyes on fir Jofeph Banks, as the 
molt likely perfon to purchafe thefe relics at the high 
price, as fhe thought it, of a thoufand guineas. On his 
refufal, and by his kind recommendation and advice, they 
came into the hands of Dr. Smith. The fale was precipi¬ 
tated before the return of the king of Sweden, then on 
his travels, left lie fliould oblige the heirs to difpofe of the 
whole at a cheaper rate to the Univerfity of Upfal. This 
would actually have been the cafe, as appears from the 
exertions made by his majefty on his return, who fent a 
courier to the Sound, and a veflel by fea, to intercept the 
fiiip that was bearing away the prize. 
Dr. Smith, having gained pofleflion of this treafure, 
was defirous to communicate the benefit of it, as exten¬ 
sively as pofiible, to the public. With this view, he in 
the year 1788 drew the plan of an inftitution to be called 
the Linntean Society, intended for the promotion of dif- 
coveries and improvements in natural hiitory. Dr. Smith 
was molt defervedly chofen, and ftill continues, prefident 
of the fociety; and it obtained a royal charter in the year 
2 802, with a patent for armorial bearings. When it is 
recollected that the purchafe we have mentioned com¬ 
prehended the complete mufeum of Linnseus, including 
the library, herbarium, infeCts, (hells, and all other natu¬ 
ral curiofities, with all the manuferipts and whole corre- 
fpondence, of the illuftrious Swede; the authority which 
fuch an acquilition gave to the labours of the infant fo¬ 
ciety, as well as to all botanical and zoological publica¬ 
tions, the authors of which have ever been allowed freely 
to confult it, will readily be perceived. Nothing per¬ 
haps could have more contributed to raife up, or to 
improve, a tafte for natural fcience, in any country; and 
the eleven 4to volumes of Tranfadions, already publifhed 
by the fociety, prove that its members are not idle vene¬ 
rators of the name they bear. 
Two other focieties have been inftituted in honour of 
the great Linnaeus. The Societe Linneenne was eftablilhed 
at Paris the year preceding that of London. An inititu- 
tion for fimilar purpofes was formed at Leipfic, in the year 
1790, under the care of profeflbr Ludwig. 
LIN'NE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Roer : two miles fouth of Ordingen, and thirty-two north- 
north-weft of Cologne. 
LIN'NET, /. \_linot, Fr. linaria, Lat.] A fmall finging- 
bird.—The (wallows make ufe of celandine, the linnet of 
euphragia, for the repairing of their fight. Moore's Anti¬ 
dote .—See Fringilla linota, vol. viii. p. 62. 
LIN'NICH, a town of France, in the department of 
the Roer, on the Ruhr. In 1444, Arnold of Egmont was 
defeated near this town by Gerhard duke of Juliers and 
Berg. It is five miles north-north-weft of Juliers. Lat. 
50. 57. N. Ion.6.13. E. 
. LINOCAR'PUM,/. in botany. See Linum. 
LIN '755 
LlNOCIE'RA, f. [fo named by Swartz from Geofroy 
Linocier, phyfician at Tournon in the Vivarais ; author of 
PHiltoire des Plantes des Indes; Par. 1584. He wrote 
alfo on beads, birds, fifties, and plants.] In botany, a 
genus ot the clafs diandria, order monogynia. The ge¬ 
neric characters are—Calyx: perianthium very fmall, 
four-toothed, obtufe, permanent. Corolla : petals four, 
equal, linear, channelled, upright, fpreading at top, many 
times longer than the calyx. Stamina : filaments two ; 
very (hort, rather broad ; antheras linear, two-furrowed, 
length of the corolla, upright, each adhering (lightly to 
the other fide of the two petals. Piftillium : germ fupe- 
rior, ovate, four-cornered ; ftyle fliort; ftigma oblong, 
two-cleft. Pericarpium : berry ovate, (harp-pointed, 
two-celled. Seeds : folitary, oblong.— EJfentiat CharaEler. 
Calyx four-tootlied ; corolla four-petalled ; anthene con¬ 
necting two oppofite petals at the bafe ; berry two-celled. 
Linociera liguftrina is the only fpecies deferibed by 
Swartz. It is a native of dry open places in the Weft 
Indies, efpecially Jamaica and St. Domingo; flowering in 
June and July. It fliould be obferved, that the prefent 
genus was adopted by Schreber, from Swartz, who firft 
called it Thouinia, in his Prodromus. The Thouinia now 
adopted into our fyftem is however a very different plant; 
and Dr. Smith fuggefts that Linociera may probably not 
be a diftincl genus from Chionanthus, merely becaufe 
they differ in the number of cells of the fruit; the former 
having two cells, the latter only one. But in fome genera 
of this natural order, the number of cells in the ripe 
fruit has been difeovered conftantly to be fewer than in 
the young germen. In Olea, in particular, this was 
found to be regularly the cafe by the late M. Broufionet, 
though we know not that it had been before fufpeCted. 
LI'NON, or Lly'non, a river in Anglefey, which runs 
into the Allow before Llanvorog. 
LINOPHYL'LUM, f. in botany. See Thesium. 
LINO'SA, a fmall ifland not far from the coaft of 
Tunis, in the Mediterranean, near the ifland of Lampe- 
dofa. 
LINOS'ITY, f. [from linum, Lat. flax.] The ftate of 
abounding with flax. Scott. 
LINOSY'RIS,,/. in botany. See Chrysocoma. 
LINOZOS'TIS, f. A name given by the ancient Greek 
writers to two plants very different from one another : the 
one is the Chenopodium bonus henricus, or Englifh mer¬ 
cury, a plant common in uncultivated places, and eaten 
by many boiled in manner of afparagus ; the other the 
Cufcuta, or dodder, growing upon the plants of flax. 
Theophraftus, Diofcorides, and the ancient Greeks, ufe 
the word in the firft fenfe; and the modern Greeks in the 
latter. 
LIN'QUES, a country of Celebes, lying between the 
two ftates of Binano and Bankale, not far from the bay 
of Tourattea. 
LIN'SCHOTTEN, a town of Holland : eight miles 
weft of Utrecht. 
LINS'DORF, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Ko- 
nigingratz: thirty-two miles eaft-louth-eaft of Geverf- 
berg. 
LIN'SE, a town of Pruffia, in Oberland : fifteen miles 
fouth-eaft of Marienwerder. 
LIN'SEED, f. The feed of flax. See Linum. —The 
joints may be clofed with a cement of lime, linfeed oil, and 
cotton. Mortimer's Hujlandry. 
LIN'SENBAHRT, or Lentil'ius (Rofinus), a phyfi¬ 
cian, was born at Waldenburg, in the province of Ko« 
henlohe, in February 1657. He commenced his ffudies 
at Heidelberg at the age of fourteen, and thence removed 
to Jena in 1673 ; but his fcanty means of fubfiftence com¬ 
pelled him the next year to engage as a teacher in the vi¬ 
cinity of Leipfic, where he continued till 1677. He then 
travelled, with a view to improve his fituation, through 
feveral of the principal towns in the north of Germany, 
and fettled at Mattau, in Courland, in the fame capacity 
of teacher. To aid this feeble refource, Linfenbabrt be- 
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