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* XATE.OBE. LATtTDE. respecting the construction of tlie railroad be- LATTICELEAE (OF., Fr. lattis, from latte, tween Saint Petersburg and iloscow. The well- Ger. Lattc, lath), Laceleaf, Water- Yam, or known 'Latrobe stove' or 'Baltimore heater' yas Ouvibajxdkaxo, Aponogeton fenestrah. A curi- his invention. Aside from his professional duties, gug Madagascar aquatic plant, the older leaves he was conspicuous in his devotion to the welfare of which seem to lose all their green tissue and of Baltimore. Druid Hill Park owes much to his t,, ^g^ve only the skeleton of the leaf. It is re- care. He was one of the foimders and a life-long ferred by some botanists to the natural order proinoter of the ilarj-land Institute. For many Aponogetonacea;, nearly allied to Xaiadacea>, with years he was president of the Maryland Histori- .ivhich it was formerly classed. It has a light- cal Society. Among the advocates of African bi-o^n edible rootstock, about the thickness of a colonization he was perhaps the foremost. For the colony of Marvland in Liberia, established at Cape Palmas, he prepared a charter under which a prosperous government was maintained for many years. After the death of Henry Clay he became president of the American Colonization Societv. His Bistary of ilarxjland in Liberia •was published in 18S5. Some of his writings relating to local history have a permanent value, as, his Life of Charles Carroll Perso)ial Re- collections of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and History of Mason and Dixon's Line. — His son, Ferdinand Claiborne (183.3 — ), was born in Baltimore, was admitted to the bar in 1860, was chosen seven times Mayor of Balti- more, and was repeatedly sent to the Maryland Legislature, serving twice as Speaker of the House of Delegates. He was always, whether in otfice or out of office, a prominent factor in the political affairs of his native city and State. XATRUN'CTTLI (Lat. nom. pi., pawns, free- booters, diminutive of latro, robber) . An ancient Roman game, played on a board divided into squares by ruled " lines with men of different colors. The name properly denotes the men, and then the game. The details of play are unknown, but it is certain that one object of each player was to capture his opponent's pieces by inclosing them between two of his o^vn men. A similar game was known to the Egyptians, and boards and sets of men. with animals' heads, have been found in tombs of that country. A similar board has been found in the Mycena>an palace at Cno- sus, in Crete. The Greeks also had two games (TreTTefo, petfeia) played with men, one the game of 'five lines.' the other called 'cities'; the men were called 'dogs.' It seems likely that while some of the games were purely games of skill, analogous to draughts and chess, in other varieties dice were used, as in backgammon. The latriiiiciili were very popular, and are frequently alluded to in ancient writers. LATTEN (OF. latnn. Fr. laiton. from Sp. lata, lath. Port, lata, tin-plate, from OHG. lata, latta, Ger. Latte, Eng. lath: connected with Ir. slath, Bret, la::, rod, and with Ger. Laden, shut- ter). A term applied to a mixed metal made of copper and zinc, and practically the same as sheet LATTICELEAF. man's thumb, 6 to inches long, often branching, internally white and farinaceous. The crown of the plant is under water, and the leaves flofit just below the surface: the flowers, arranged in forked spikes, rise above it. The young leaves, while in the bud, are not lattice-like. There are about a dozen species in this genus, which occurs in Africa, Asia, and Australia. LATTMANN, lat'man, Jruus (1818-98). A German educator, born at Goslar. He studied theology and philology at the University of Got- tingen." From 1847 to 1870 he was a teacher in the gymnasium at Gijttingen: from 1870 to 1890 director of that at Clausthal. Besides many schemes for linguistic reforms, he also published a number of school text -books, among them: Kombiiiation der methodischen Principien hn lateinischen Vnterricht (1882-88); Cornelii Ve- brass. There are three varieties of latten known poiis Liber Emendattis et fiuppletus (1889); —black, shaven, and roll. The first is rolled Aus^gleichende Losiing der Reformbewegungen des brass about the thickness of ordinary jiasteboard, hohercn Schuhcesens (1889). and unpolished: the second is as thin as writing- paper; and the third is either of the other kinds polished on both sides. The term is now seldom used, and is restricted to brass worked into orna- ments for ecclesiastical purposes. LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS. Violent and LATUDE, la'tt.id', Henri Masers de (17'25- 1805). A prisoner in the Bastille, born at Mon- tagnoe in Gascony. He learned the business of an apothecary, served in the army, and came to Paris, where* he lived for some time in great poverty. In 1749 Latude informed ^fme. de radical political tracts by Thomas Carlyle ponipadour that an attempt would be made upon (1850). in which he attacked not only abuses, i,er life through poison in a package. He did not but also the chief institutions and humanitarian ^g t],at he himself was the sender of the pack- measure* of the British Government. age. Mme. de Pompadour found him out, re- LATTER-DAY SAINTS. See Mormons. fused to see the humor of the situation, and sent