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LOVE-IN-IDLENESS, or LOVE-AND-IDLE, or, with more 

 accuracy, LOVE-IN-IDLE, i.e., in vain, as in the phrase in 

 Exod. xx., 7 : A.S., " Ne nem ]?u Drihtnes namen on ydel" 

 " Tac J>u noght in idel min namen," a name of the pansy 

 that perpetuates a current phrase, as in the couplet, 

 " When passions are let loose without a bridle, 

 Then precious time is turned to love and idle ; 



Taylor. 



but why it was attached to this flower, is not apparent. 



Viola tricolor, L. 



LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING, from the resemblance of its crim- 

 son flower-spike to a stream of blood, and the confusion of 

 the two first syllables Amar of its Latin name with amor, 

 love, Amaranthus caudatus, L. 



LOVEMAN, the goosegrass, a name given to it by Turner 

 to express the Gr. <J3i\av0poyn-o^, from its clinging to people, 



Galium Aparine, L. 



LOWRY, L. laurea, adj. of laurus, laurel, the spurge laurel, 

 so called from its evergreen leaves, Daphne Laureola, L. 



LUCERNE, apparently from the Swiss canton of that 

 name, but Diez says that its derivation is unknown. By 

 some of the older herbalists the sainfoin was called so. At 

 present the name is confined to the Medicago sativa, L. 



LUJULA, contracted from It. Alleluiola, dim. of Alleluia ; 

 see HALLELUJAH. 



LUNARIE, L. lunaria, from luna, moon, a name given to 

 a great number of different plants. The following descrip- 

 tion of one is copied by Gesner, in his treatise upon plants 

 called Lunaria, from some anonymous author : " Lunaria 

 emicat in montibus humidis. Caule visitur procero et 

 rubente, anguloso, nigris asperso maculis. Folia instar 

 Lunse orbis, aut nummi alicujus, rotunda sunt, aut samp- 

 suchi foliis similia. Flos luteus ; odor moschi. Chymistse 

 facultatem fere eandem, quam chelidonio ei attribuunt. 

 Metalla omnia vi ejus in Solem et Lunam convert! pollicen- 



