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fomewhat three cornered, and divided into three cells, which contain roundilh feeds. To this, it is to be added, that the root is of a bulbous fhape, and made up of flefhy fcales in the manner of that of the JiJly. Tottm.lnft. p. 371. The fpecies of lilio-byacintbus enumerated by Mr. Tourne- fort are thefe. 1. The common blue flowered hlly-byacinth, commonly called the lilly leaved ftarry hyacinth. 2. The white flowered lilly-hyacintb ; and 3. The Ully-byadnth with reddifh flowers. Tourn. Inft. p. 371. L1LIO-NARCISSUS, in botany, the name of ? genus of plants, the characters of which are thefe. The flower is of the liliaceous kind, and is compofed of fix leaves, difpofed in the form of thofe of the common lilly. The cup, or em- bryo, afterwards becomes a fruit, in all refpects, like that of the narciffus. To this, it is to be added, that the root is bulbous and truncated in the common way j in which it differs from the lilly, as it does from the narciffus, in the having a fix leaved flower.

The fpecies of lilio -narciffus enumerated by Mr. Tournefort are thefe. 1. The broad leaved red flowered Indian lilh-nar- ciffus. 2. The deep purple flowered Indian lilio-narciffus. 3. The largcft fpherical Indian lilio-narciffus, with a number of red liliaceous flowers. 4. The Indian lilio-narciffus with white flowers, red on the outfide. 5. The red flowered lilio-narciffus of Japan. 6. The dwarf many flowered Indian lilio-narciffus^ 7. The dwarf African many flowered lilio- narciffus. 8. The many flowered Ulio~narciffus } as with flefh coloured flowers, with pale yellow bottoms. 9. The broad leaved lilio-narciffus of Ceylon, with fnow white flowers, with a purple ftreak at the back of every petal.

20. The broadeft leaved lilio-narciffus with more white iccntlefs flowers. 11. The lilly of the valley leaved Ame- rican lilio-narciffus, with flowers yellow on the infide and fcarlet on the out. 12. The Carolina lilio-narciffus, with a fingle pale whitifh red flower. 13. The dwarf white fin- gle flowered Indian lilio-narciffus. 14. The Indian lilio- \ Tiarciffus, with gold yellow flowers ftreaked with a filvery \ white, with two large bending leaves, and a hollow ftalk like that of the onion. 15. The yellow Ipring lilio-narciffus. 16. The great yellow autumnal lilio-narciffus. 17. The yellow double autumnal lilio-narciffus. 18. The letter yel- low autumnal lilio-narciffus. 19. The autumnal Hli:~nar~ ciffus with a dufky yellow flower. 20. The fmall yellow fweet fcented lilio-narciffus. Tourn. Inft. p. 388.

LILIUM, the Ully, in botany, the name of a large genus of plants, the characters of which are thefe. The flower is of a fort of bell fafhioned fhape, but is compofed of fix leaves, which are more or lefs expanded and bent back. The piftil ftands in the center of the flower, and finally becomes an oblong and trigonal fruit, which is divided into three cells, and contains a number of marginated feeds, ar- ranged in a double order one on another. To this, it is to be added, that the root is of a bulbous form, and is com- pofed of a number of flefhy fcales affixed to an axis. The fpecies of Ully enumerated by Mr. Tournefort are thefe. 1. The common white lilly. 1. The double white lilly with fcentlcfs flowers. 3. The white lilly with depend- ing flowers. 4. The large purplifh yellow lilly. 5. The great white Ully. 6. The double flowered purplifh yellow lilly. 7. The common white lilly with yellow edges to the leaves. 8. The lilly with leaves variegated with yellow fpots. 9. The Ully with the flower variegated with purple lines. 10. The white Syrian lilly. 11. The Iefier purplifh yellow lilly. 12. The fmall double flowered purple lilly. 13. The pale purple flowered lilly. 14. The many flowered bloody lilly. 1*5. The great broad leaved bulbiferous bloody lilly. 16. The narrow leaved bulbiferous bloody lilly. i7.The fmall creeping bulbiferous bloody lilly. 18. The hairy bul- biferous lily. 19. The mountain lilly with red reflex flow- ers. 20. The double red mountain lilly with reflex flowers.

21. The mountain lilly with white reflex flowers. 22. The mountain lilly with reflex flowers, of a pale purple, fpotted with a deeper red. 23. The mountain lilly with reflex frefh coloured flowers. 24. The mountain lilly with re- flex flowers, and a longer fpike. 25. The hairy Ully with reflex flowers. 26. The lilly with plain purple flowers. 27. The Ully with dufky brownifh reflex flowers. 28. The lilly with reflex variegated flowers. 29. The lilly with white reflex flowers not fpotted. 30. The lilly with double white reflex flowers not fpotted. 31. The lilly with reflex white fpotted flowers. 32. The fcarlet Conftantinople lilly.

33. The Conftantinople lilly with plain white flowers.

34. The Conftantinople lilly with yellow flowers. 35. The Conftantinople Ully with pale red flowers. 36. The many flowered Conftantinople lilly with deep red flowers. 37. The late flowering Conftantinople lilly. 38. The double flowered Conftantinople lilly. 39, The purplifh bloody lilly with re- flex flowers. 40. The pyramidal mufk lilly. 41. The narrow leaved red Ully. 42. The red flowered lilly with fhort graffy leaves. 43. The narrow leaved fweet fcented red lilly. 44. The narrow leaved yellow lilly. 45. The narrow leaved lilly with pale, whitifh yellow flowers. 46. The yellow flowered lilly with black fpots in the flowers. Tourn. Inft. p. 369, 370. See Lilly.

Lilium canvalliim. Lilly of the valley, in botany, the name of a genus of plants ; the characters of which are, that the flower is compofed of only one leaf, formed into the fhape of a bell, fhort, divided into feveral fegments at the edge, and inclofed in no cup ; from the bottom of this flower there rifes a piftil, which ripens into a foft and ufually globular fruit, full of feeds, laid clofely together. The fpecies of Ully of the valley are thefe. 1. The common white kind. 2. One which has its flowers produced from little follicles. 3, The fingle flowered kind. 4. The nar- now leaved kind. 5. The great broad leaved kind. 6. The double flowered variegated broad leaved one; and 7. The red flowered one.

The plant commonly called one blade, and by Cafpar Bauhine lilium convalliwn ?t:inus y is ufually efteemed a fpe- cies of this genus, but improperly ; it being one of the fmilaxes. Tourn. Inft. p. 77. See Smilax. The name lilly is very improperly given to this genus of plants, as they have not the leaft affinity to the Ully. The flowers of lilly of the valley are cephalic and nervine, and prefcribed for vertigoes, apoplexies, palfies, &c.

Lilium lap'uleum, a name given by the writers, in natural hiftory, to a foffile body found in fome parts of Germany ; which plainly fhews, that it was once a fpecies of ftar fifh ; though the animal be not, at this time, known in its recent ftate. Klein, who has well confidered this body, in com- pliance to the vulgarly received names of things, call this the entrocbus ramafus, or branched entrochus ; and the refem- blance fome of its parts have to the common entrochi, fhews plainly that their origin has been the fame, and that they are fragments either of this fpecies or of the ma- gellanic ftar fifh. The recent fifh not beinw found from which the lilium lap'ideum is formed is no peculiar fate, but is common to it, and to the cornua ammonis, and many other animal remains.

LILLO, in ichthyology, a name, given by the Rhodians to the labrus. See Labrus.

LILLY, lilium, in botany. See the article Lilium.

All the forts of Ullies and martagons are propagated by fowing their feeds ; and if the feeds are carefully faved from good flowers, the martagons very frequently afford very beautiful varieties.

The manner of fowing them is this: fome fquare boxes fliould be provided of about fix inches deep, with holes bored in the bottoms to let out the wet j thefe muft be filled with frefh light fandy earth, and the feeds muft be fown on them pretty thick in the beo-innino- of Auguft ; foon after they are ripe, and covered over about half an inch deep with light fifted earth of the fame kind. They ftiould be then placed where they may have the morn- ing fun ; and, if the weather prove dry, they muft be wa- tered at times, and the weeds carefully picked out. In the month of October, the boxes are to be removed to a place where they may have as much fun as poffible, and be fe- cured from the north and north eaft winds. In fprinw the young plants will appear, and the boxes are then to be re- moved into their former fituatjon ; they fhould be watered at times during the fummer ; and in Auguft the fmaileft roots are to be emptied out of thefe boxes, and ftrewed over a bed of light earth, and covered with about half an inch depth of light earth fifted over them ; they muff here be watered and fhaded at times, and defended from the feverity of thewin- ter, by a light covering of ftraw, or peas haulm, in the hardeft weather. In February the furface of the bed fhould be cleared, and a little light earth fifted over it. When the leaves are decayed, the earth fhould be a little ftirred over the roots, and in the month of September fol- lowing a little more light earth fifted on. In the September, of the following year, the roots muft be tranfplanted to the places where they are to remain, and fet at ei°ht inches diftance, the roots being placed four inches below the fur- face : this fhould be done in moift weather. They will now require the fame care as in the preceding winters ; and the fecond after they are tranfplanted, the ftrongeft roots will begin to flower. The fine ones fliould then be re- moved at the proper feafon into flower beds, and planted at great diftances from one another, that they may flower ftrong.

The roots of the while Ully are emollient, maturating, and greatly fuppurative. They are ufed externally in cataplafms for thefe purpofes with fuccefs. The common form of ap- plying them is boiled and bruifed ; but fome prefer the roaft- ing them till tender, and then beating them to a pafte with oil, in which form they are faid to be excellent againft burns. Gerard recommends them internally in dropfics.

Water Lilly. See Nymphjea.

LIMANDA, in zoologv, a name by which fome authors have called the flat fiih, which we in Englifh call the dab, the paffer afper of authors. Gefner de Pifc. p. 781.

LIMAND.L, in ichthyology, a name given by the French to the paffer afper, a rough plaice, called in Englifh a dab. This French name is evidently arrived from the Latin li- manda t ufed by Gefner and Bellonius as the name of this fifh.

LIMARIA,