First comes the orange lilium elegans, then scarlet lychnis and later, tiger lilies. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
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"?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
In the lychnis of the high Alps, the red and white have a kind of sugary bloom, as rich as it is delicate. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870] Reference
The grass is long and yet sparse; here and there a few flowers cling, hardy geraniums, lychnis, and the like, but they seem strangely out of place. From Wordnik.com. [Melody : the Story of a Child] Reference
"We're just really upset; it just shows you the stupidity," she said while standing near a lychnis, or rose campion, part of which displayed brilliant red-purple blooms. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Pink lychnis flowers behind the withy stoles, and little black moorhens swim away, as you gather it, after their mother, who has dived under the water-grass, and broken the smooth surface of the duckweed. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
Beds of poppies, hollyhocks, scarlet lychnis, and the most flaming flowers, border the edge of the walks, which extend till the perspective meets, and swarm with ladies and gentlemen in parti-coloured raiment. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents]
Beds of poppies, hollyhocks, scarlet lychnis, and the most flaming flowers, border the edge of the walks, which extend till the perspective meets, and swarm with ladies and gentlemen in parti - coloured raiment. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents] Reference
Try sedums, hydrangeas, lychnis, honesty - anything you can lay your hands on, don't worry if they look a little too ragged, you can pick off the worst and give them a quick squirt with gold paint to add the odd highlight. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
They are extremely fond of the Missouri currant – of all the early flowers, it is the greatest favorite with them; they are fond of the lilacs also, but do not care much for the syringa; to the columbine they are partial, to the bee larkspur also, with the wild bergamot or Oswego tea, the speckled jewels, scarlet trumpet-flower, red-clover, honeysuckle, and the lychnis tribe. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
Sacra jam splendent decorata lychnis. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
The blooming lychnis exhaled sweet odours. From Wordnik.com. [What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales] Reference
Primrose, and purple lychnis, deck'd the green. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Akenside] Reference
Aggreffi, tcndunt auratis vincula lychnis. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the English Poets] Reference
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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