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 LYGODIUM having stalked divisions in pairs, so that the frond appears like a slender stem bearing op- posite, petioled leaves ; the divisions of the frond are lobed, or sometimes even pinnate ; the fructification is upon separate divisions, which are much narrower than the sterile ones, and bear upon the back two rows of scale-like indusia, each of which covers usually but a single spore case, which has a complete ring at the apex and opens by a longitudinal slit. There are a number of species, natives of warm countries, and extending to New Zealand, Ja- pan, and North America. But one species (L. palmatum} is found on this continent ; it ex- tends from Massachusetts westward to Ken- tucky, and sparingly southward; in its east- ern localities it is a rare plant, but in some parts of Kentucky it grows in abundance. The fronds, 1 to 4 ft. high, are from slender run- ning root stocks ; they climb upon bushes and tall weeds ; the lower or sterile divisions, or LYMPH 749 Lygodium palmatum. frondlets, are round-heart-shaped and pal- mately five- to seven-lobed ; 'the fertile ones, borne at the upper portion of the frond, are many times forked and form a terminal pani- cle. The great delicacy and grace of this fern make it much sought after for decorative pur- poses, for which it is used in both the fresh and dried state ; it is employed to festoon pic- ture frames, ornament white window curtains, and the like. One of the famous localities for this plant is at East Windsor hill, Conn., from which such large quantities were taken away yearly that an act was passed by the state legislature to prevent its extermination. The attempts to cultivate it frequently fail froni the fact that the root stock is so fine and spreading that in taking up the plant this is in good part left behind. With careful manage- ment it can be transplanted. Some of the exotic species are favorite greenhouse plants, but there is much confusion in regard to the names ; they are to be found in collections as L. polymorptium, L. scandens, L. wlulile, &c. and generally have their sterile divisions much cut and divided. LYLY, John. See LILLY. LYMA5, a S. county of Dakota, bounded N". and E. by the Missouri river, recently formed and not included in the census of 1870; area, about 700 sq. m. It is intersected by White river and another affluent of the Missouri. LYMAff, Phineas, an American soldier, born in Durham, Conn., about 1716, died in West Florida in 1775. He graduated at Yale college in 1738, and subsequently practised law in Suffield. In 1755, being commander-in-chief of the Connecticut militia, he served with Sir William Johnson at the battle of Lake George, and, after his commander had been disabled, conducted the engagement to a prosperous conclusion. He was present at the unsuccess- ful attack upon Ticonderoga by Abercrombie, and at the capture of Crown Point and the surrender of Montreal; and in 1762 he com- manded the provincial troops in the expedition against Havana. Subsequently he passed many years in England in efforts to procure a grant of land on the Mississippi for the purpose of establishing a colony, and in 1775 embarked for that region, but died on the way. The emigrants who followed him encountered many misfortunes, and after the subjugation of the country by the Spaniards in 1781-'2 were obliged to take refuge in Savannah. LVME-KEGIS, a parliamentary borough and seaport of Dorsetshire, England, 22 m. W. of Dorchester; pop. in 1871, 2,333. The town lies between two rocky hills, a portion of it being on their steep sides. It is well built, well paved, and lighted with gas. It has a good harbor, protected by a semicircular pier ; but its business is now very small. Lyme-Regis has recently become a fashionable watering place, with libraries, assembly rooms, &c. It received its first charter about 1250, and fur- nished Edward III. with three ships for the siege of Calais. It was besieged unsuccessfully by the royalists for two months in 1644. LYMPH (Lat. lympha, clear, pure water, from Gr. vi>/Lij}, a water spirit), the nearly transpa- rent and colorless fluid found in the lymphatic or absorbent vessels extensively distributed over the body, in nearly all the organs and tissues. The lymphatic vessels commence in the substance of the tissues, probably by mi- nute plexuses, converge toward the central parts uniting with each other into larger branches, which usually follow the same course as the corresponding blood vessels, pass through a series of small solid glandular organs, the "lymphatic glands," and finally empty into the venous system by two main trunks, viz. : the "thoracic duct," bringing the lymph from the lower extremities, the trunk, left upper ex- tremity, and left side of the head and neck, which opens into the left subclavian vein ; and
 * he " right lymphatic duct," bringing the lymph

from the right upper extremity and the right