LOBELIA ( Lobelia ) 
Malevolence. 
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and 
anger, and clamour, and evil speak¬ 
ing, be put away from you, with all 
malice. Ephesians iv. 31. 
LOCUST TREE 
(Robinia Pseudacacia) 
Elegance. 
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is 
vain : but a woman that feareth the 
Lord, she shall be praised. 
Proverbs xxxi. 30. 
LONDON-PRIDE 
(Saxifraga umbrosa) 
Frivolity. 
Though thou shouldest bray a fool 
in a mortar among wheat with a 
pestle, yet will not his foolishness 
depart from him. 
Proverbs xxvii. 22. 
LORDS-AND-LADIES 
see Wild Arum 
LOTUS ( Nelumbium speciosutn) 
Eloquence. 
Though I speak with the tongues 
of men and of angels* and have not 
charity, I am become as sounding 
brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 
1 Corinthians xiii. 1. 
LOVE-IN-A-MIST 
(A 'igclla damascena) 
Perplexity. 
We are troubled on every side, 
yet not distressed; we are perplexed, 
but not in despair. 
2 Corinthians iv. 8. 
The Lord shall guide thee con¬ 
tinually. Isaiah lviii. n. 
LOVE LIES BLEEDING 
(A maranthus candatus) 
Hopeless. 
Where is now my hope? As for 
my hope, who shall see it ? 
Job xvii. 15. 
Sorrow not, even as others which 
have no hope. 
1 Thessalonians iv. 13. 
LUCE RNE (Mcdicago sativd) 
A lamp. 
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, 
and a light unto my path. 
Psalms cxix. 105. 
LUPINE (A up inns') 
Imagination. 
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, 
neither have entered into the heart 
of man, the things which God hath 
prepared for them that love Him. 
1 Corinthians ii. 9. 
SCARLET 
LYCHNIS ( Lychnis Chalcedonica) 
Bright eyes. 
The commandment of the Lord 
is pure, enlightening the eyes. 
Psalms xix. 8. 
The eyes of the Lord are in every 
place, beholding the evil and the 
good. Proverbs xv. 3. 
MADDER (Rubia tinctorum) 
Scandal; Calumny. 
Wherefore, laying aside all malice 
. . . and all evil speakings, as 
newborn babes, desire the sincere 
milk of the word, that ye may grow 
thereby. I Peter ii. 1, 2. 
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