La Grita
a town in Venezuela, beautifully located in a valley 6,000 feet above the sea level. The country about it is fertile, the principal crops being wheat, sugar cane, and tobacco. It is in a zone troubled by frequent earthquakes. Pop. about 26,000. LA GUAIRA (lä gwi'ra), a city in Venezuela, on the Caribbean Sea. It LA HOGUE was founded in 1588 and is now the most important place in the republic, commercially. A British -German fleet blockaded the town in 1912, to enforce claims on the government. Pop. about 18,000.
LAGUNA (lä-gö'nä), a tribe of North American Indians numbering about a thousand, and living in a collection of small pueblos, or villages, in New Mexico on the Rio San José.
LAGURUS (-gūr'-), hare's-tail grass, a genus of Graminaceæ , tribe Avenex.
L. ovatus is a soft, hairy, annual, tufted Found in Guerngrass, with short, flat leaves, a short ligule and long awns. Found in Guern- , flat leaves, a short ligule and long awns. sey and naturalized near Saffron Walden. It is more common in southern Europe and in parts of Asia.
LA HAGUE (lä häg), the N. W. extremity of the peninsula of Cotentin, of Cotentin , in the N. of France, over against Alderney of the Channel Islands. It is crowned by a lighthouse, 158 feet high.
This must not be confounded with LA HOGUE (q. v.).