LOVE LIES-A-BLEEDIN 
AMARANTHUS CAUDATUS. 
(See Amaranth.) 
Class 21.—MONGCIA. Order.—PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Jus 
AMARANTHI. 
us Amaranth, with pink aa and egg ek 
ioweae “to ve lies-a-bleeding.’ 
o his poem vr ** Q’Connor’s 
lost thou love ey flower 
hieedi 
A 
er my tears have a 
pple 
I love it, a! it was the first 
T on eg ago tomb. 
* 
And ctinaintiy' for my warrior’s seis 
The flower of ‘ Loy e-lies-bleeding. * 
LUPINE. 
LUPINUS. 
Order.—DECANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Juss. 
LEGUMINOSZE. 
Class 17.—DIADELPHIA. 
Nat. Or inn. 
PAPILIONACER. 
Lupinus, so called by Pliny, and other ancient wr: 
Protessor Martyn n Says, that the name owes its origin to tape . 
a wolf, ts of this ee ravage the ground, by 
ov errunning it, after the manner of that animal. 
L si erived per the Greek LUPE, 
epi ithet “ tristes seopatt Hooke: | the fan- 
which tas uced a sorrow- 
Both of = ideas are. 
ncyclopedi 
hich ve much cultivated by the 
ne is a a kind of pulse, w 
8. 
se who ate of it. 
That bem pear was extensively aco ated, may he gathered 
from - following lines 
ountena 
ES _ shall rest, shee last Leigh os grain 
For where SS ae of ache sou took, 
Or “ae 0" per ea pr the lupine shoo. 
Or vetc minute, will golden corn 
With pet grain that happy tilth adorn. 
Virg. Geo. b. 1. 
ting of Lupines was, also, thought to Pn the 
mind, and _— oa ee ination. Itis related of Protogenus, 
a celebrated painte Rhodes, who flourished about t rs _ 
we before Christ, that, during th z the ges n years rs he 
Jalysus, 
Pes the founder of the state of Modes, he lived entirely upon 
lupines ter—with an idea this aliment would give 
h afr fi 
him g cy: 
"The species of this eet most cultivated for their flowers, 
are the white, blue, yellow an lored. 
loy- | © 
LYCHNIS, SCARLET. 
LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA, 
Class 10.—DECANDRIA Order.—PENTAGYNIA, 
Nat. Ord. Juss. 
CARYOPHYLLE®. 
, derive 
at. . Linn, 
CARYOPHYLLER, 
Lychnis, L 
a lamp. 
the down of the aha one rons used 
lamps. 
rom LUCHNOS 
, 
to make wicks of 
re Lah 
esemblance of the c mee of some of the pate to 
: ea 
e Pt a in several species, would favor the idea 
lamp with a flame 
The addition of Chalcedonica may possibly be derived from 
Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia, on the Asiatic coast of the Black 
e. 
tion was called “ flower of 
n of Constantinople.” He also 
wef sig eek by botanists for all the Campion 
be, t wits now restricted rh gy neus and his followers to 
one ee = s of that fa 
The L. Chale row wild in all parts of Rar 
sia and Siberia. ni 
ower garden: 
ble for the rich pete “Darlet of its one 
double. for 
vex, terminal tuft, “two or rare 
five petals, border flat, wedge-s: 
perianth inferior, of one leaf, oblong, 
five-toothed, permanent. 
roughish. The stem is several on wre oclieg hairy, leafy, 
but little branched. Leaves ovate, rough, somew: what undulated. 
MAGNOLIA. 
Class 13.—POLYANDRBIA, Order.—POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. . Linn. Ve 
COADUNAT. 
A noble genus of shrubs 
honor al Peter 
spat he | 
and trees, named 
religion had been in the way of his pro 
for his urbanity, } and vosptencin for his “knowledge and, pre- 
had a botani- 
cal class; among whom were Fagan a and the illustrious Tour- 
nefort. He seme several c works. In 
i" 708, he dmitted a member of the ‘Academie dex Sciences 
aris, in the © place distinguished friend Tournefort, 
to thie wendens, 50 ee 
cone 
ye aceite Grandifiora, Laurel-leafed re 
most magnificent a ead beautiful evergreen tree of 
ht of ei (eighty feet often 
and terminated 
rose-co 
The calyz is of one leaf, cloyen ; corolla papilionaceous. 
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