LUPINE,** a genus of plants belonging to the diadelphia clas; and in the natural method rank-

ing under the 3rd order, Papilionaceae. See Botany Index.

**LUPULUS,** the hop plant. See Humulus, Botany Index.

**LUPUS,** the wolf. See Canis, Mammalia Index.

**Lupus-Marinus,** the Sea-wolf, a fish. See Anarhichas, Ichthyology Index.

**LUPUS,** in Astronomy. See Astronomy Index.

**LURCHER,** a kind of hunting-dog, much like a mongrel greyhound with pricked ears, a flagged coat, and generally of a yellowish white colour: they are very swift runners, so that if they get between the burrows and the conies they seldom miss; and this is their common practice in hunting: yet they use other subtleties, as the tumbler does, some of them bringing in their game, and those are the best. It is also observable, that a lurcher will run down a hare at stretch.

**LURE,** in falconry, a device of leather, in the shape of two wings, stuck with feathers, and baited with a piece of flesh, to call back a hawk when at considerable distance.

**LURGAN,** a town in the county of Armagh and province of Ulster in Ireland, 67 miles from Dublin. It is a flourishing town, agreeably situated in the midst of a much improved country; and the inhabitants are extensively engaged in the linen manufacture. It stands on a gentle eminence, about two miles from Lough-Neagh, of which it commands a most beautiful and extensive prospect. N. Lat. 54° 35'. W. Long. 6° 31'.

**LURGAN-GREEN,** a town of Ireland, in the county of Louth and province of Leinster, 37 miles from Dublin; a mile beyond which is a handsome seat of the earl of Charlemont.

**LURIDÆ,** the name of the 28th order in Linnaeus's fragments of a natural method. See Botany, Natural Orders.

**LUSATIA,** a marquisate of Germany, in Upper Saxony; bounded to the east by Silesia, to the west by Misnia, to the south by Bohemia, and to the north by the marquisate of Brandenburgh. Till towards the middle of the 13th century, the Upper Lusatia was called the Mark, i.e., the marquisate or the land of Budissin and Gorlitz; and the Lower only Lusatia, which it is said, in the Slavonic, signifies "a woody or marshy country." The air of the Upper Lusatia, which is hilly or mountainous, is better than that of the Lower, a great part of which is moorish and boggy. Both abound in wood, especially the Lower, and turf for fuel. The healthy and mountainous tracts are generally barren; but the lower champaign and marsh lands are tolerably fertile, producing pasture, wheat, rye, oats, barley, buck-wheat, peas, lentils, beans, and millet; together with flax, hops, tobacco, some white and red wine, and what is called manna. Of several of these articles, however, considerable quantities are imported. In this country are found also quarries of stone, medicinal springs, bastard diamonds, agates, and jaspers, earths and clays for tobacco-pipes and all sorts of earthen ware, alum, good iron stone, vitriolic and copper water; nor is it deficient of cattle, fish, and venison. The rivers Spree, the Schwarze or Black Elster, and the Pulznitz, have their