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to have been long ago an inhabitant of the botanic garden 
at Amfterdam, and to have been defcribed and figured by 
Commelin. Bot. Mag. vol.xxxvi. 
Thunberg has feveral other fpecies; and has enumerated 
thirty lobelias natives of the Cape of Good Hope, in his 
Prodromus Plantarum Capenfium, p. 39, 40. 
Propagation and Culture. N° 1, 3,4, 34, 35, 39-43, and 
all the fpecies from the Cape. If the feeds of thefe forts 
be fown in autumn, they will fucceed much better than 
when they are fown in fpring; they may be fown in pots, 
and fheltered under a common hot-bed' frame in winter, 
expofing them to the open air at all times in mild wea¬ 
ther, but fcreening them from the froft ; and in the fpring 
the pots fliould be plunged into a moderate hot-bed, which 
will foon bring up the plants ; when thefe are fit to re¬ 
move, they fliould be each planted in a feparate fmall pot 
filled with rich each, and plunged into a moderate hot¬ 
bed again, fhadingthem from the fun till they have taken 
new root; when they mult have a large fliare of air at all 
times when the weather is mild ; and, as the plants grow 
Ifrong, they fliould be gradually hardened to bear the open 
air, into which they fhould be removed in June, placing 
them in a fheltered fituation, where they will flower in 
July, and, if the feafon prove favourable, the feeds will ripen 
in September; but, if the feafon fliould prove cold, it will 
be proper to remove one or two plants into a glafs cafe, 
to obtain good feeds. 
N° 2, 6, 16, and all the fpecies from the Weft Indies 
and South America. The feeds of thefe fliould be fown 
after they are ripe, in pots filled with rich earth, and 
plunged into the tan-bed in the ftove, obferving to refrefh 
the earth frequently with water. In the fpring thefe pots 
may be removed, and plunged into a hot-bed, which will 
foon bring up the plants; when thefe are fit to remove, 
they fliould be each tranfplanted into a feparate fmall pot 
filled with rich earth, and plunged into a frefh hot-bed, 
fhading them from the fun till they have taken new root; 
then they may be treated in the fame way as other tender 
plants from the fame country, giving them a large (hare 
of air in warm weather, and frequently refrefliing them 
with water. In autumn the plants muft be plunged into 
the tan-bed of the ftove, where they will flower the fol¬ 
lowing fummer, and produce ripe feeds ; foon after which 
the plants will decay. If the feeds of this plant are 
brought from the Weft Indies, they fliould be fown as 
foon as they arrive, in pots filled with rich earth : and, if 
it happens in the winter, the pots fliould be plunged into 
the tan-bed in the ftove ; but, if in the fpring or fummer, 
they may be plunged into a hot-bed in the common frames. 
Thefe feeds, when fown in the fpring, feldom grow the 
fame year; therefore the following autumn the pots fhould 
be removed into the ftove, and managed according to the 
above directions. 
N° 5, 7, 23, 24, and the remaining fpecies, which are 
natives of Europe or North America. Thefe are propa¬ 
gated by feeds, which, when they ripen in England, fhould 
be fown in autumn in pots filled with rich kitchen-garden 
earth, and placed under a common hot-bed frame ; or, if 
the feeds come from the country where the plants grow' na¬ 
turally, they fhould be fown in the fame way as foon as they 
arrive ; for, if they are kept out of the ground till fpring, 
they will lie a year in the ground before they vegetate. 
The pots in which thefe feeds are fown lhould be expofed 
to the open air at all times when the weather is mild, but 
they muft be fcreened from the froft, and the very hard 
rain in winter. In fpring the plants will appear, when 
they fhould have as much free air as poffible in mild wea¬ 
ther; and, if the fpring proves dry, they muft be fre¬ 
quently refrefned with water. As foon as they are fit to 
remove, they fhould be each planted in a feparate fmall 
pot filled with the fame rich earth, and placed in the 
lhade till they have taken new root ; then they may be 
placed where they may have the morning fun, in which 
fituation they may remain till autumn. During the hum¬ 
mer, they muft be duly watered in dry weather 3 and. 
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when the roots have filled the pots, they fliould be re¬ 
moved into larger. In autumn they muft be placed un¬ 
der a common frame to fcreen them from hard frofiy but 
they fhould enjoy the open air at all times when the wea¬ 
ther is mild. 1 he fpring following they fhould be new 
potted, and placed where they may have the morning fun,, 
always obferving to water them duly in dry weather, 
which will caufe their ftalks to be ftronger, and produce 
larger fpikes of flowers in Auguft. Thefe will continue 
long in beauty, if they are not too much expofed to the 
fun ; and, if the autumn proves warm, the feeds will ripen 
in England. The roots will fometimes laft two or three 
years, and produce offsets for increafe; but they will not 
flower fo ftrong as the feealing plants, therefore an an¬ 
nual fupply of them fhould be railed. There are many 
who propagate them by cutting their ftalks into proper 
lengths, and plant them in pots filled with good earth, or 
into an eaft border, covering them clofe with glaffes. 
Thefe frequently take root, but they are not fo good as the 
feedlings. They will live in the full ground if they are 
protefted from hard froft in winter, and they will flower 
ftronger than thofe in pots. 
LOBE'LI A CHEIRAN'THUS. See Manulea. 
LOBE'LIA FRUTES'CENS. See Sctevola. 
LO'BEN. SeeLovvEN. 
I.O'BENHAYN, a town of Saxony, in the margravatS- 
of Meiffen : two miles fouth-eaft of Lauenftein. 
LO'BENSTEIN, a town of Saxony, and chief place of 
a lordfhip, on the Lemnitz, in the county of Reuften 
twenty-fix miles north of Bayreuth, and twenty-fix fouth- 
weft of Greitz. Lat. 50.21. N. Ion. n. 50. E. 
LO'BENSTEIN, an ancient caftle of Silefia s three 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Jagerndorf. 
LOBE'RA, a town of Spain, in Arragon: twenty miles 
weft-fouth-weft of Jaca. 
LO'BES, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Boleflaw; 
nine miles weft-north-weft of Jung Buntzel. 
LO'BES, one of the fmaller Canary iflands, between 
Lancerotta and Fortaventura. Lat. 28.50. N. Ion. 13.40.Wk. 
LOBE'TUM, anciently a town of the Hither Spain ; 
faid to have been built by the Libyan Hercules. (Pliny.) 
Now Albarazin, a town of Arragon on the confines of New 
Caftile, on the river Guadalavir. Lat. 40.40. N. Ion. a. E, 
LOBET'ZE. See Labes, p. 5. 
LOBI'JE. See Lobau. 
LOBTNEAU' (Guy-Alexis), a writer of hiftory, bora 
at Rennes in 1666, entered among the Benedidtines of St. 
Maur in his feventeenth year, and devoted his life to ftudy. 
He died at the abbey of St. Jagut, near St. Malo, in 5727?; 
His principal publications are, 1. Hiftoire de Bretagne, 
2 vols. folio, 1707; a work commenced by father le Gal- 
lois, and finifhed by Lobineau. It is reckoned valuable 
for the number of charters and other documents it con¬ 
tains ; but the fuppofed partiality of the writer for his own 
province involved him in a controverfy with the abb6 
Vertot and the abbe MoulinetdesTlniilleries, who warmly 
fupported the rights of Normandy, which had been im¬ 
pugned in that work. 2. Hiftoire de Deux Conquetes 
d’Efpagne par les Maures, 1708, umo. a tranflation from 
the Spanifh, and regarded as little more than a romance. 
3. Hiftoire de Paris, 5 vols. folio, 1725: this work was con* 
fiderably advanced by father Felibien, w'as and put into 
the hands of Lobineau to finirti. 4. Hiftoire des Saints 
de Bretagne, folio, 1724. 5. He alio tranflated the Stra^ 
tagems of Polyaenus from the Greek, in 2 vols. izmo. 
1738; and made verfions of fome comedies of Arifto^ 
phanes, which have not been publifiied. Moreri. 
LO'BITH, a town of the duchy of Cleves: three miles 
north-weft of Emmerick. 
LOBLOL'LY,yi A kind of fluttifhly-drefled pottage ,. 
a kind of burgoo. Scott. 
LOBLOLLY BA'Y, a bay of the ifland of Antigua, ‘ 
on the weft coaft. 
LOBLOLLY BA'Y, in botany. See Gordohia, voL 
viii. p. 692, 3. 
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