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2. Lifianthus cordifolius, or cordate-leaved lifianthus j 
leaves cordate, fegments of the corolla lanceolate, acute. 
. Browne remarks, that this plant may he deemed a variety 
of the foregoing; or that they are at lead fo very like in 
the general make and habit, that the form of the leaves 
is almoft the only difference. Swartz, however, obferves, 
that the leaves are always heart-(haped, the upper ones 
only being ovate and fellile ; the corollas are alfo rather 
larger.- Native of Jamaica. 
3. Lifianthus exlertus, or lengthened lifianthus: leaves 
ovate-lanceolate, peduncles trichotomous, genitals very 
long. 4. Lifianthus latifolius, or broad-leaved lifianthus: 
leaves lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, peduncles trichoto- 
mous, fegments of the corolla ereff, genitals included. 
5. Lifianthus umbellatus, or umbelled lifianthus: leaves, 
elongated, obovate, flowers terminating, peduncled, urn- 
belled, fegments of the corolla very fliort, blunt, upright. 
Natives of Jamaica. 
6. Lifianthus frigidus, or dull lifianthus: leaves ovate, 
acuminate, coriaceous, panicle terminating, trichotomous, 
corollas ventricofe, with roundifh fegments. Native of 
the mountains of Guadaloupe. 
7. Lifianthus fempervirens, or evergreen lifianthus: 
leaves lanceolate-elliptic, fegments of the corolla ovate, 
blunt. See the deficription under Bignonia fempervirens. 
Linnaeus obferves, that the feed-veffels are cordate Ample 
filiques. 
8. Lifianthus glaber, or fmooth lifianthus : fmooth ; 
leaves ovate, petioled; corymbs terminating. Found in 
South America by Mutis. 
9 - Lifianthus chelonoides, or Surinam lifianthus: fmooth; 
leaves oppofite, fubconnate, oblong; panicle terminating, 
dichotomous, racemofie. Stem herbaceous, Ample, round, 
fmooth, from two to three feet in height. Flowers alter¬ 
nate, remote, directed one way, pendulous, yellow. This 
herb is very bitter, and ftrongly purgative. Native of 
Surinam. 
Aublet’s plant, which is cited as'fynonymous in Lin¬ 
naeus’s Supplement, is diftinft from this, and a new 
fpecies. 
Propagation and Culture. For the 7th fpecies, fee Bigno¬ 
nia fempervirens. The refi, being natives of Soutn Ame¬ 
rica and the Weft Indies, are much more tender, and nruft 
be nurfed in the bark-ftove. 
LISICZ'NICK, a town of Poland, in Podolia: twenty- 
eight miles weft of Kaminiec. 
LISIEU'X, a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftrift, in the department of the Calvados. Before the 
revolution, theLee of a bifhop : 5I ports eaft of Caqn, 
twenty-one weft of Paris. Lat. 49. 9. N. Ion. o. 19. E. 
LISIGNA'NO, a town of Iftria: fourteen miles eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Pola. 
LISIN'IAS, in ancient geography, a town of Theflaly. 
Pliny. 
LIS'KEARD, a market and borough town in Cornwall. 
Mr. Worden, who furveyed and deferibed this county in 
the reign of James I. calls it Lijkerde ; and fays, “it is a poor 
town, whole ruins however argue its priftine glory to be 
great; and that it is privileged for the coinage of tin, and 
has a pretty market.” Since his time it is improved to be 
one of the largert and belt-built towns in Cornwall, with 
the greateft market, which is kept on Saturdays ; and fairs 
the Monday fortnight before Chriftmas-day, Shrove-Mon- 
day, Monday week before Eafter, IIoly-Thurfday, Au- 
guft 15, and October 2. Here is a handfome town-hall 
built on ftone pillars, with a turret on it, and a clock 
with four dials that coft near two hundred pounds. Here 
is a large church arid meeting-houfe, an emiuent free- 
lchool, and a curious conduit; and on the adjacent com¬ 
mons, which feed multitudes of (beep, there have been 
frequent horfe-races. Here is a very great trade in all 
manufactures of leather; and Lome fpinning is let up here 
lately, encouraged by the clothiers of Devonlhire. On 
the hills of North Lilkeard, and in the way from hence to 
Launcellon, are many mines of tin, which is calt at the 
blowing-houfes into blocks, that are fent hither to be 
LIS ?S7 
coined. Lilkeard is calculated to contain three thoufand 
inhabitants. The elective influence is in the hands of 
lord Ebot. It fent to parliament 23 Edward I. and wa3 
incorporated July 6, 1580, 29 Eliz. and the government 
confilts of a mayor, recorder, eight capital borgeffes, and 
fifteen afliftants. Fhe members of parliament are cboieri 
by the corporation and feven treemen. Number of vo¬ 
ters fifty ; returning officer, the mayor. Prefent mem¬ 
bers ; Hon. Win, Eliot, brother to lord Eliot, and the 
Rt. Hon. C. P. Yorke, a teller of the exchequer. 
The following curiousion-anecdote is from a work 
we have often quoted, the Hiftory of the Boroughs of 
Great Britain.—May 10, 1701. The houfe, being ac¬ 
quainted that no return had been made into the office of 
the clerk of the crown, of a burgefs to ferve in this prefent 
parliament, for the borough of Lilkeard. in the county of 
Cornwall, in the room of George Dennis, efq. deceased, 
ordered, “That the deputy clerk of the crown do attend 
this houfe to-morrow morning, with the returns from 
the county of Cornwall for this prefent parliament ; and 
likewife with his docket-book of writs and returns for the 
election of members to ferve in parliament.” The houfe, 
being informed that the umler-lherifF of the county of 
Cornwall was in town, ordered, “That the laid under- 
flieriff do attend this houfe to-morrow morning.” The 
reft of the proceedings concerning this return, which are 
too long for our plan, are to be found at length in the 
printed votes of the next day. The cafe briefly was A 
writ had been duly ilfued, and a precept had been made 
thereon and duly executed, returned to the under-flieriff, 
the indenture by him compared with a counterpart, which 
he executed for the Iheriff; the writ and return were, at 
the under-lheriff’s requeft, fent by the town-clerk, by 
port, to the under-lheriff’s agent in London, to be con¬ 
veyed to the clerk of the crown ; but were taken by rob¬ 
bers, and by them deftroyed. It appeared by the infor¬ 
mation of a member and another perfon, who were pre¬ 
fent, that Charles Trelawny, efq. was duly elected and 
returned; the counterpart of the indenture was produced 
and read, and (fat. 7 Hen. IV. and part of 23 Hen. VI. 
were read ; and thereupon it was ordered, nem. con. “That 
the deputy-clerk of the crown do file, among the returns 
of members to ferve in this prelent parliament for the 
county of Cornwall, the counterpart of the indenture exe¬ 
cuted by the Iheriff of Cornwall, of the return of Charles 
Trelawny, efq. to ferve in this prefent parliament as a 
burgefs for the borough of Lilkeard, in the laid count}', 
in the room of George Dennis, efq. deceafed, as the re¬ 
turn of the laid Charles Trelawny to parliament; it ap¬ 
pearing to this houfe that the writ, and the principal part 
of the aforefaid indenture, were taken away in coming up 
to the clerk of the crown by highwaymen, who deftroyed 
the fame by burning them.” And he filed the fame ac¬ 
cordingly. Lilkeard is thirty-one miles eaft of Truro, and 
221 weft-fouth-weft of London. Lat. 50.27. N. Ion. 4. 27. tv„ 
St. Cleer is a village to the north of Lilkeard; in which 
parilh are various druidical and other antiquities ; parti¬ 
cularly the Hurlers, which confifted, when perfect, of 
three contiguous circles of upright ltones from three to 
five feet in height; the Cheele-wring, a natural pile of 
rude rocks, riling to the height of thirty-two feet; the 
Other Half-ftone, which appears to have been the lhaft of 
a crofs that originally ltood upright. To thefe may be 
added, a cromlech of great magnitude, called Trevethey- 
ftone. St. Cleer’s well, of which fome remains are ftill 
extant, was in the times of ignorance and luperftition 
erteemed a hath of fovereign virtue, South of Lilkeard 
is St. Keyne’s well, which is claffed by Carew among the 
natural wonders of Cornwall. Of this faint, and of the 
well, many poetical and legendary tales ar* extant. The 
fpring is arched over, and on the mould which covers 
this arch five large trees are growing. Britijk Direilory, 
vol. iii. Beauties of England and Wales, vol. ii. 
LIS'LAU, a town of Bohemia, in the circle cf Boief- 
law : fix miles fouth of Benatek. 
LI'SLE, or Lxl'ls, properly L’Isle, or the Illand, a 
city 
