Lark
the genus Alauda. Four species are the best known: the skylark, A. arvensis; the shorelark, A. alpestris; the crested lark, A. cristata; and the woodlark, A. arborea. The skylark, with some variations of coloring, leading some ornithologists to suppose that there may V (1859), and four or ry; also compiled and Poems, etc." (1876); de in Poetry" (1877); oston, Mass., April 17, of the hog. Till after the 19th century lard bus ointments in mediarge quantities were emperature, by which leine were separated . ed for candle-making; under the name "lard bricant for machinery. by and county-seat of the International and the Mexican National, border. Laredo is in cande coal belt; is a victims of lung trou- Laredo Seminary; con- Mexican National Railnd has manufactures of s, deposits of coal, iron, opper, a large interna periodicals, and an a 355; (1920) 22,710. ering-place of Ayrshire, Firth of Clyde, 14 miles Here, Oct. 12, 1263, Scotland and the Norse and the Isles, Alexander co of Norway, who with .000 men had descended -re'sä) (called by the famous in ancient town of Thessaly, now In the fertile plain of peration; it was ceded by ece in 1881. Pop. about d Greeks and one-third Four enus Alauda. st known: the skylark, shorslark, A. alpestris:
A. cristata; and the orea. The skylark, with of coloring, leading some suppose that there may LARKHANA be more species than one, extends all through Europe to the Himalayas and China. The name lark is given in the United States to the Alauda cornuta, the or shore lark, and in Australia to Marifra horsfieldii, or the bush lark. The tit-lark belongs to the family Motacillidæ.
LARKHANA (lär-känä), the capital of a district called "the Eden of Sind," situated 150 miles N. of Haidarabad; has manufactures of silk and cotton cloth, and a great cotton market.
LARKSPUR (Delphinium), a showy and popular genus of garden flowers of the natural order Ranunculaceæ, natives of the temperate and cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere , and comprising both annual and perennial species. The well-known rocket larkspur (D. Ajacis), a native of Switzerland, and the branch- D. consolida), a native of most parts of Europe, doubtfully so of Great Britain, are familiar examples of the annual species; and Barlow's lark- ) and the great-flowered larkspur ( D. grandiflorum) are not unfrequent examples of the perennial species. D. glaciale is one of the most distinctively alpine plants in the world.
D. Staphisagria , corrupted to stavesacre, yields an alkaloid extract from its see named Delphine, which is highly poisonous. seeds,