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excellent imitations of architectural ornaments. He died 
in 1505, at the age of 45. 
LIP'PI (Lorenzo), alfo a Florentine painter, born In 
1606. He was likewife a great mufician and a poet. In 
the latter character he publiflied II Malmantile racquijlato. 
He died in 1664. 
LIP'PIA, /. [fo named by Houftoun, from Augujline 
Lippi, who travelled into Egypt, and died in Abyflinia.] In 
botany, a genus of the clafs didynamia, order gymnofper- 
mia, natural order ftellatas, (vitices, JuJf.) Thegeneric cha¬ 
racters are—Calyx: perianth one-leafed, comprefled, four¬ 
toothed, bivalved, when mature; valves membranaceous, 
acuminate, keeled, upright, permanent. Corolla: one- 
petalled, unequal; border four-cleft; divifions rounded, 
the inferior and fuperior one larger; the fuperior ereCt. 
Stamina: filaments four, fliorter than the corolla; two of 
them longer than the others ; anthers fi'mple. Piftillum : 
germ ovate, compreffed-flat: ftyle filiform, of the fituation 
and length of the ftamen ; (tigmas oblique, Pericarpium : 
none; valves of the calyx cover the feeds. Seeds: folitary, 
oblong. Several fructifications are collected into a little 
head ,— EJfential CharaEler. Calyx four-toothed, round- 
ifh, upright, compreffed-membranaceous ; capfule one- 
celled, two-valved, two-feeded, Itraight; feed one, two- 
celled. Grertner is for expunging this genus, and unit¬ 
ing it with Blairia. He remarks that the calyx is cer¬ 
tainly not fuperior. 
Species. 1. Lippia Americana, or American lippia: heads 
pyramidal. Height fixteen or eighteen feet, with a rough 
bark; branches and leaves in pairs. Leaves oblong, 
pointed, a little ferrate. Peduncles axillary, fuftaining 
many pyramidal fcaly heads, about the fize of a large 
gray pea, in which are many fmall yellow flowers between 
the fcales; corolla funnel-form. Fruits on long pedun¬ 
cles. Seeds two, coadunate, ovate, fomewhat bony, con¬ 
vex and fmoothifli on one fide, flat or (lightly concave on 
the other, whitifh. Found at Vera Cruz by Dr. Hou¬ 
ftoun ; and cultivated by Mr. Miller before 1733. 
s. Lippia hemifphserica, or hemifpherical lippia: heads 
hemifpherical. This is a (hrub ten feet in height, the 
whole odoriferous and aromatic; dividing into woody, 
round, weak, branches, that bend down unlefs they are 
fupported; the younger ones are quadrangular and flow- 
«r-bearing. Flowers fmall, each on a very (hort pedun¬ 
cle; corolla white. This plant connects the deflate with 
the verticillate plants, and yet is of neither order. Na¬ 
tive of Carthagena in New Spain. 
3. Lippia ovata, or ovate lippia: heads ovate, leaves 
linear, quite entire. Gsertner feparates this from Lippia, 
on account of the inverted fituation of the embryo, and 
names it Dalea Lippiaftrum. L’Heritier has placed it 
among the Selagos. See Selago ovata. 
4. Lippia hirfuta, or hirfute lippia: hirfute, leaves ob¬ 
long, wrinkled, ferrate, tomentofe underneath; panicles 
axillary, heads ovate. Stem four-cornered, hoary with 
(hagginefs. Flowers minute, white. Found in America 
by Mutis. 
5. Lippia cymofa, or cymous lippia: flowers cymed, 
leaves ovate, almoft entire. This (hrub has often leveral 
ftems from the fame root, each no bigger than a goofe- 
quill; round, woody, brownifh black, from three to fix 
feet in height, (lender, and requiring fupport; twigs many, 
oppofite, having (harp prickles one third of an inch long; 
and oppofite leaves, half an inch in diameter, a little 
pointed at the ends, almoft round, 3'ellowifti-green, fmooth, 
fomething like thofe of Nummularia, and very ftrong 
fcented like Pulegium. Petioles the eighth of an inch in 
length. The flowers come out at the top, are fmall, many 
together, of the colour, and fomewhat refembling, thofe 
of Spirsea Theophrafti, though not fo clofe fet, nor fo 
handfome. Seeds fmall, oblong, channelled, brown. Na¬ 
tive of Jamaica. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe (hrubs, being natives of 
the continent of America and the iflands of the Weft In¬ 
dies, inuft be preferved in a bark-ltove. The feeds (hould 
ke (own on a hot-bed, and the plants treated as other 
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(hrubby plants from the fame country 5 by keeping them 
always in the ftove, plunged in the bark-bed, obferving 
to give them a large lhare of air in warm weather, and to 
refrefti them frequently with water. In winter they muft 
be watered more fparingly, and be kept in a moderate 
degree of warmth, otherwife they will not live through 
the winter, efpecially when young; but, when they hava 
acquired ftrength, they may be preferved with a lefs (hare 
of warmth. As the plants advance in growth, thift them 
into larger pots; but this (hould not be too often re¬ 
peated : once every fpring will be fufficient; for thefe and 
many other exotic plants do not thrive fo well when fre¬ 
quently removed as when they .are permitted to fill the 
pots with their roots. Shift them in April, at which time 
the tan of the liot-bed (hould be ftirred, and fre(h tan 
mixed with it, to increafe the heat. The earth in which 
thel'e plants are placed, (hould be fre(h and light, but not 
too rich. 
LIP'PIE, /. A corn-meafure in Scotland ; four lippies 
being equal to one peck. 
LIP'PITUDE, J. [ lippus , Lat. blear-eyed.] Bieared- 
nefs of eyes.—Dileafes that are infectious are, fuch as are 
in the fpirits and not fo much in the humours, and there¬ 
fore pafs eafily from body to body; fuch are peftilences 
and lippitudes. Bacon. 
LIPP'LEPOUT,/. in botany. See Cassine, vol. iii. 
p. 874. 
LIP'POMAN (Louis), a learned Italian prelate in the 
fixteenth century, defcended from a noble Venetian fa¬ 
mily, and born in the capital, but in what year is not 
known. Being deltined to the church, he purfued his 
ftudies with fuch diligence and fuccefs, that he was con- 
fidered to be one of the ableft divines of his time. He 
was alfo diftinguilhed by his capacity for bufinefs; and 
was employed in feveral embaflies of importance, to Por¬ 
tugal and other countries. He was one of the divines 
who attended the council of Trent, where he acquired 
confiderable reputation by the figure which he made in the 
difcuflions of that aflembly. Upon the interruption of 
the council, he was fent papal nuncio into Germany in 
1548 ; and two years afterwards was recalled by pope Ju¬ 
lius III. who fixed upon him for one of the three prefi- 
dents of the council of Trent. In 1556, pope Paul IV. 
fent him nuncio into Poland, and made him his fecretary. 
M. de Thou bellows a high encomium upon him, by ob¬ 
ferving, that he was equally illuftrious for the purity of 
his principles and the innocence of his life. By zealous 
catholics he might be thought entitled to fuch a com¬ 
mendation; but his claim to it would have been oppofed 
by the Jews, and the proteftants of Poland, whom he per¬ 
fected with inhuman and unrelenting feverity, during 
his million in that country. At different periods, the 
dates of which we have not met with, he was fuccelfively 
promoted to the biflioprics of Modon, Verona, and Ber¬ 
gamo. The various employments in which he was en¬ 
gaged, however, did not prevent him from profecuting 
his literary ftudies, and publilhing various learned and 
laborious treatifes. He died in 1559, with the reputation 
of being well (killed in the learned languages, ecclefiafti- 
cal hiftory, divinity, and particularly in an acquaintance 
with the fcriptures, and the fathers. He publilhed, Ca¬ 
tenas of the Greek and Latin Fathers, upon Genefis, Exo¬ 
dus, and the ten firft Pfalms, which appeared in 3 vols, 
folio, in 1546, 1550, and 1584. He alfo made liimfelf 
famous by a new collection of the Lives of the Saints, in 
8 vols. folio, which are laborious and minute, rather than 
critical and judicious; feven volumes of which were pub¬ 
liflied by liimfelf, from 1551 to 1558, and the eighth af¬ 
ter his death in 1560, by his nephew, Jerome Lippoman. 
LIPP'SPRING, a town of Weltphalia, in the biftiopric 
of Paderborn, at the fource of the Lippe. This town is 
famous for being the place where Charlemagne obliged 
the Saxons to embrace Chriftianity, and where he held 
three councils: fixteen miles fouth of Detmold, and four 
north of Paderborn. 
LIP'PUS (Aurelius), wliofe family-name wa6 Brando- 
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