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LIMO'NIA, a genus of plants of the natural family of Aurantiacea, so called from the origina! Indian names, Neemoo and Leemoo, of the Lemon. Several of those described under this genus by Dr. Roxburgh have been referred to Atalantia and Glycosmis. The species still included are rather heterogeneous in nature, and will probably require further separation. As most of the family abound in essential oil, so the leaves of some of the Limonias are fragrant, and the fruit, though small, of L. acidissima and crenulata is very acid. Limonia laureola, referred to this genus by Dr. Wallich, in his Plantæ Asiat. Rar.' t. 245, is remarkable as the only plant of this family found on the tops of cold mountains. The people of the Himalayas, remarking its highly fragrant leaves, fancy that it is by feeding on them that the musk acquires its strong and peculiar flavour.

LIMOUSIN, or LIMOSIN, a province of France, now comprehended in the departments of Corrèze and Haute Vienne. Limousin comprehended an area of 3900 square miles, watered by the Vienne, one of the great tributaries of the Loire, and by the Dordogne, and its tributaries the Isle and the Vezère, all belonging to the system of the Garonne. The province was divided into two parts by the Vezère. Haut or Upper Limousin was to the north-west of that river, and had Limoges for its capital: Bas or Lower Limousin was to the south and east; its chief towns were Brives and Tulle. Limoges was the capital of the whole province. Limousin was included in the dioceses of Limoges and Tulle, the bishops of which were both suffragans of the archbishop of Bourges.

This district was antiently inhabited by the Lemovices, a Celtic people conquered with the rest of the Celts by Cæsar. In the subsequent division of Gaul into provinces. Limousin was included in Aquitania: and upon the subdivision of that province, in Aquitania Prima. It formed part of the dominions of the Visigoths till the overthrow of Alaric II. by Clovis at the battle of Vouglé, or Vouillé, in Poitou. It was subsequently under the government of the dukes of Aquitaine, or of Guienne, from whom it was taken by Pepin le Bref. It was subsequently included in the great duchy of Guienne, under which Limoges, its capital, became a vicecounty. It was in a quarrel with Adémar V., viscount of Limoges, that Richard I. (Cœur de Lion), king of England and duke of Guienne, lost his life, being shot with an arrow as he was besieging the castle of Chalus in Limousin. The possession of Limousin was subsequently disputed by the kings of England, as dukes of Guienne, and the kings of France. It afterwards came by marriage into the hands of the dukes of Bretagne, and later still into those of the counts of Albret. It was inherited by Henri IV. from his mother Jeanne d'Albret, and was by him united to the French crown. LIMOUX, a town in France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Aude, and on the bank of the river Aude. The streets are paved and lighted, and the houses are of tolerably good appearance. The marketplace is a regular square. There are two churches, four public fountains, and a public walk. The public edifice most deserving notice is the gate of La Trinité, a modern erection, near the bridge over the Aude. The population in 1831 was 6247 for the town, or 6518 for the whole commune; in 1836 it was 7105 for the commune, showing an P. C., No. 851.

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increase in five years of nearly 600, or almost 10 per cent. The principal manufactures are of leather and woollen cloth; there are several oil-presses, and in the neighbouring district there are iron-works. The surrounding country produces good white wine. There are a high school, an agricultural society, an hospital, and a small collection of paintings, beside several government offices for judicial or fiscal purposes. The town is about 12 miles south-west from Carcassonne, the capital of the department.

The arrondissement comprehends, 688 square miles, and had a population in 1831 of 72,707, in 1836 of 75,891: it is subdivided into four cantons and 150 communes.

LI'MULUS, the name for a genus of crustaceans, one of the most known of which is popularly called The King Crab. [XIPHOSURIANS.]

LINA'CEÆ, a small natural order of plants, related to Cistaceæ, from which it differs in having an ovary with many cells, containing one or two seeds each, several styles, a definite number of stamens, &c., and to Geraniaceæ, from which the separate styles and peculiar fruit of Linacea abundantly separate that order. The definition of Linacea may be briefly expressed thus: polypetalous, hypogynous, monadelphous exogens, with a broken-who led calyx; a many-celled, many-styled ovary, containing one or two pendulous ovules in each cell, and a capsule splitting at the point into as many valves as there are cells. The fruit is remarkable for having each of its carpels divided into two cells by a spurious dissipiment originating inside the back, so that in reality each cell is two-seeded, although from the presence of this spurious partition it seems to be one-seeded.

But although Linacea approach the two orders already named in the structure of the organs of fructification, the vegetation is essentially different, the leaves being alternate, free from all trace of a volatile secretion, and destitute of stipules, and the nodes of the stem not being capable of disarticulation. The whole order contains but two genera, Linum and Radiola: the former comprehends many species, the most important of which is common flax, Linum usitatissimum, the woody tissue of whose stems is so valuable for its toughness and fineness, and whose seeds furnish linseed oil. [FLAX, where the plant is called by mistake Linum perenne; LINSEED OIL; LINUM.]

LINÁCRE, or LYNACER, THOMAS, one of the most eminent physicians of his age, descended from the Linacres of Linacre Hall, in the parish of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, was born at Canterbury about 1460. He received his first education in his native city, under William Tilly, or De Selling, and afterwards entered at Oxford, where he was chosen a fellow of All Souls College in 1484. Anxious for further improvement in learning, he accompanied De Selling into Italy, whither he was sent on an embassy to the court of Rome by King Henry VII. De Selling left him at Bologna with strong recommendations to Angelo Poliziano, then one of the best Latin scholars in Europe. Linacre removed thence to Florence, where Lorenzo de' Medici allowed him the privilege of attending the same preceptors with his own sons; and under Demetrius Chalcondylas, who had fled from Constantinople at the taking of that city by the Turks, he studied Greek. He then went to Rome, and studied medicine and natural philosophy under Hermolaus Barbarus. He applied himself particu VOL. XIV.-B