Usage examples (16)

• First comes the orange lilium elegans, then scarlet lychnis and later, tiger lilies.
• Also, I wasn't familiar with lychnis before I Googled it, but how could I resist a link with a name so much like "Guy Gardner"?
• The scarlet lychnis and its many varieties are nearly past, but the large-flowered, Haag's, and others of that section, are in their prime, and showy plants they are.
• In the lychnis of the high Alps, the red and white have a kind of sugary bloom, as rich as it is delicate.