Lysander
a Spartan naval and military commander; lived in the 4th century B. C. He had the command, 407 B. C., of the Spartan fleet off the coast of Asia Minor, where he defeated the Athenians under Antiochus, and gained great influence, among both the Greeks and Persians. Lysander fell at the battle of Haliartus in 395. LYSIMACHIA (lis-i-ma'ki-ä), loosestrife, a genus of Primulaceæ, family Primulidæ. The calyx is five-partite, the strife, a genus of Primulacex, family corolla rotate, the stamens glabrous or glandular, the capsule opening at the corolla rotate, the stamens glabrous or summit, with 5 to 10 teeth or valves.
The herb grows erect or creeping. Known summit, with 5 to 10 teeth or valves. species, 40, chiefly from the temperate Four (Lysimachia vulgaris, L. zone. nemorum, L. nummularia, and L. thyrsiflora) are British. The first and second are the most common; they have yellow flora) are British. The first and second flowers.
LYSIMACHUS (li-sim'a-kus), one of the generals and successors of Alexander the Great; born in 361 в. c. On the der the Great; born in 361 B. C. On the and the neighboring countries were the share of Lysimachus, who became also King of Macedonia in 286. The murder of his son Agathocles, at the instigation in Asia; Seleucus took up the cause of the widow Lysandra, and Lysimachus was killed in the battle which ensued, LYTTON 281 в. c. He had assumed the title of king in 306. He was founder of a city Lysimachi. on the Hellespont, named after him cylinder for collecting and measuring rain LYSIMETER, a water-tight box or water which percolates through the soil.