Ladoga
lad'o-ga, the largest lake in Europe. It is nearly as large as Lake Ontario. On a map it appears like a northwestern extension of the Gulf of Finland, of which, indeed, it was formerly a part. It is about 130 miles in length and seventy-five miles in breadth. It receives a number of streams which are connected by canals, making a network extending entirely around the lake. The water is clear and cool at all times, and is well stocked with fish. It is frozen over about 120 days in the year, or from December to April. The Neva, through which it empties into the Gulf of Finland, carries as much water as the Rhone and the Rhine combined.
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Lady Chapel
a chapel dedicated Jedicated to the Virgin Mary, frequently attached to a large church. In churches built was usually before 1200 the lady chapel was usually ady an independent or additional building. additional building.
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Lady Day
one of the regular quarne of the regular quarter days in England and Ireland, on land and Ireland, on made payable. which rent is generally made payable. ne ar; but in some It is March 25 in each year; but in some districts Old Lady Day (April 6) is still (April 6) is still observed as the term day. day. rodium thelypteris,
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Lady Fern
Nephrodium thelypteris, pinnate fronds, a species with lanceolate, pinnate fronds, the pinnæ again deeply pinnatifid. Also pinnatifid. Also Athyrium filix fæmina, a beautiful fern a beautiful fern with large, membranous, oblong, lanceoa, oblong, lanceolate, twice or thrice pinnate fronds, with nnate fronds, with close-set pinnules.
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Lady of Lawers
One of the Breadalbane family, of Scottish origin, and married to Campbell of Lawers. This gentlewoman was believed to be gifted with prophetic powers, and her prophecies are said to be written in a book shaped like a barrel and kept in the charter room of Taymouth Castle: it is named "The Red Book of Balloch." These forecasts all have reference to the house and lands of Breadalbane; we give the following as an example :-" When the red cairn on Ben Lawers fell the church would split. In the same year that the cairn, built by the sappers and miners on Ben Lawers, fell, the Disruption in the Church of Scotland took place."
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Lady's Comb
Scandix pecten-vene- , Scandix pecten-venepubescent, unbelliferous ris, a branching, pubescent, unbelliferous only a colonist where it plant. Perhaps only a colonist where it , elds in Great Britain, occurs in cornfields in Great Britain ental Europe, South wild in Continental Europe, South to northwestern India. Africa, west Asia to northwestern India. Called also Venus's comb. comb. (Alchemilla), b
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Lady's Mantle
a genus of herbaceous plants, chiefly nalants, chiefly natives of temperate and cold climates, of cold climates, of the natural order Rosaceæ, sub-order ee, sub-order Sanguisorbeæ; having small and numerand numer ous flowers. The name lady's mantle, ady's mantle, signifying "Mantle of Our Lady"-i. e., Lady"-i. e. of the Virgin Mary-is derived from the ved from the form of the leaves. The common lady's The common. lady's mantle (A. vulgaris) is abundant on wis) is abundant on tures throughout Great banks and in pastures throughout Great Britain. Its root-leaves are large, ot-leaves are large, plaited, many-lobed, and serrated; its bed, and serrated; its flowers are usually of a yellowish-green ly of a yellowish-greent beautiful is the Alpine color. Still more beautiful is the Alpine lady's mantle (A. alpina), which grows ), which grows and has digi on mountains in Scotland and has digitate serrated leaves, white and satiny white and satiny British plant of beneath. A common British plant of unpretending very humble growth and unpretending appearance is the field lady's mantle, or 's mantle, o parsley piert. (A. arvensis), found in ensis), found in pastures and meadows; an astringent adows an astringent and diuretic, said to be sometimes useto be sometimes use ful in cases of stone in the bladder, by cons in the bladder, by producing a large secretion of lithic ge secretion of this acid.
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Lady-bird
A rustic mode of divination was that practised with the lady-bird or lady-fly. The lady-bird was captured by a maid and bidden to fly "north, south, or east, or west in the direction in which her lover lived. Whichever way the insect flew, there dwelt her future husband.
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Ladybird
a genus of pretty little beetles, generally of a brilliant red or yellow color, with black, red, white, or yellow yellow spots. Adults and larvæ feed chiefly on aphides, and are thus most useful to hop-growers and other agriculturalists. The eggs are laid under the leaves of plants, on which the larvæ afterward run about in pursuit of aphides. In late autumn the survivsurvi ad hibering adults find safe corners, and hibernate till spring. The family of which of which the genus is type, Coccinellidæ, includes includes about 40 about 1,500 species, of which about 40 British. One of the commonest forms (C. septempunctata) is found are s found over all Europe, and in parts of Asia of Asia and Africa.
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Ladybugs
small, nearly hemispherical beetles. They are either red or yellow, with black spots; or else black, with white, red, or yellow spots. Most of them live on insects. The grubs of one species, called "wigglers," make themselves of great use to hop growers by devouring hop-lice. One sort, yellow with large black spots, makes free with squash and melon leaves. Children have long been friends of the ladybugs. They sing: Lady bug! Lady bug! Fly away home, Your house is on fire, Your children will burn. It is hardly worth while to tell them that ladybugs are really beetles. A lady-bug or lady-bird, as it is sometimes called, has been imported into California for the service its larvae render in destroying the scale insect that infests fruit orchards. See Beetles
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Ladysmith
a town in Natal, 180 a town in Natal, 180 miles from Durban. It was named after n. It was named after the wife of Sir Henry Smith, once gov- Henry Smith, once governor of Cape Colony. During the Zulu lony. During the Zulu War it was a British military station. military station. In 1899-1900 it was a center of milia center of military operations, a siege by the Boers ge by the Boers being gallantly withstood by a British thstood by a British garrison under General White. See General White. See BOER WAR.
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