Lace Bark
the inner bark of Lagetta lintearia, one of the Daphnads. The English name is given because the bark, when macerated and stretched laterally, resembles coarse lace, and in Jamaica, where the tree grows, is made into caps, ruffles, etc. The negroes make durable clothing from it, and the white inhabitants utilize it for ropes and cables. Also the name given in New Zealand to the genus Philippodendron. LACONIA LACEDÆMON. See SPARTA.
LACERTA (lā-sur-tä) ("The Lizard"), one of the eight constellations added to the original ones by Hevelius in his "Introduction to Astronomy" in 1690, or rather one of the eight which have survived, for he added 10 in all. It is not a conspicuous one, the brightest star being of the fourth magnitude.
LACHES (lash'ez), in English law, a word used to denote negligence or undue delay, such as to disentitle a party to a particular remedy or to relief. one Lachesis mythology, LACHESIS (lak'e-sis), in classical (q. v.). Also the name of Planetoid 120. of the three FATES In zoölogy, (1) A genus of Crotalidæ.
Rattlesnakes or pit vipers. mutus, the bushmaster of Surinam, Guiana, and Brazil, has the rudiments of mollusks, genus Pleurotoma. a rattle. (2) A doubtful sub-genus of LACHLAN (läk'lan), a river of Eastern Australia, rising in New South Wales, to the W. of the Blue Mountains; total length about 700 miles. It is joined by the Murrumbidgee, the united stream afterward falling into the Murray.