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LEFT LAGERSTROMIA 397 LAGOS Anti-Christ," (1897) ; "From a Swedish Homestead" (1899); "Invisible Links" (1894); "Matilda Wrede" (1914). She received the degree of doctor from Upsala if^^ SELMA LAGERLOP University in 1907, and in 1909 was awarded the Nobel Prize for the best work in literature. She was elected to the Swedish Academy in 1914 and was the first woman to receive this honor. LAGERSTROMIA (lag-ur-stru'mi-a) (named after Magnus Lagerstrom, of Gothenburg), the typical genus of the tribe Lagerstromiex. It consists of 14 East Indian and Chinese trees and shrubs, with splendid flowers. L. indica, a shrub common in Indian gardens, has crumpled petals. It is from China. The flowers of L. flos reginas, or L. reginae, are in panicles, at first of a pale-rose color, but afterward deepening into a fine purple. It is a large, deciduous tree, growing in eastern Bengal and Burma. Its bark and leaves are considered to be purgative and hydragogue, and the seeds to be narcotic. The timber is regarded in the E. of India and Burma as the most valuable of any except teak. It is used in the East for ship and boat building, making carts, gun carriages, etc. L. lanceolata, L. microcarpa, and L. parvi- flora, growing in India, L. tomentosa in Burma and Pegu, and L. hypoleuca in the Andaman Islands, have also valuable wood. L. flos regime, L. parviflora, and L. tomentosa yield gum resins. The bark of L, parviflora is used in India for tanning, and along with the bark of Terminalia tomentosa for dyeing skins black. LAGNY, a town in France, in the department Seine-et-Marne, 12 miles S. W. of Meaux, on the left bank of the Marne. It figured in the battle of the Marne in September, 1914, and for a time was threatened by the Germans, but the French victory in that battle saved it. Pop. about 5,000. LAGO MAGGIORE (la'go mad-jo'-re), (ancient Verbanus), a lake partly in northern Italy, partly in Switzerland, surrounded by hills, and containing sev- eral islands; about 39 miles long and 7 broad, and in some places 1,500 feet deep. LAGOMYS, a genus of rodents, much resembling hares or rabbits, but with limbs of more equal length, more perfect clavicles, longer claws, longer head, shorter ears, and no tail. There are about a dozen species, one in S. E. Eu- rope, one on the Rocky Mountains, and the rest on the mountains of northern Asia. They are about the size of guinea pigs, and make burrows, but are par- ticularly interesting for their habit of stacking choice herbage for winter use. The stacks of the Siberian species, the Alpine lagomys, or pika (L. alpinus), are said to be utilized by the sable- hunters for fodder. LAGOON (la-gon'), a shallow lake or sheet of water, connected with the sea or a river, found on the coasts of Holland, Italy, South America, etc. Also a sheet of water surrounded by an Atoll (q. v.). LAGOPITS (-6'pus), ptarmigan, a genus of Tetraonidce (grouse). The bill has the base thickly feathered, the eye- brows are naked and smooth, the tarsus and toes thickly covered with feathers in winter. L. scoticus is the red grouse. L. mutics, or vulgaris, is the ptarmigan. L. alhiis is the willow grouse of the Swedish Peninsula, Russia, and Siberia. LAGOS (la'gos), a seaport on the S. coast of Portugal, 30 miles E. N. E. from the extremity of Cape St. Vincent; pop. about 8,000; principal industry tunny and sardine fisheries. In the bay of Lagos Admiral Boscawen defeated the French Toulon fleet, Aug. 18, 1759. LAGOS (la'gos) a town on the W. coast of Africa, since 1914 the tem- porary capital of Nigeria. Pop. about 60,000. LAGOS, a region in West Africa un- der the protection of Great Britain, and since 1914 a province of southern Nigeria; area, over 29,000 square miles; pop. about 2,250,000. Vol. V— Cyc— Z