The Chakedonica, or Chalcedonian icarlet lychnis, hath a fibrated perennial root; up - right, flraight, hairy, annual ftalks, rifing three or foui: feet high; gamifhed with long, fpear-pointed, dofe-fitting kaviss, by pairs oppofite; and the ftalk crowned by a large, compact, flat bunch of beautiful emitting a glutinous liquid matter from their flalks, flies happening to light thereon fometimes ftick and entangle themfdves, whence the plant obbuns 'the name Catch-fly. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopædia britannica;] Reference
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