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A shrub Amorpha canescens of sandy woodlands and streambanks of the Western U S having hoary pinnate flowers and dull colored racemose flowers it is thought to indicate the presence of lead ore...
Lobelia
A genus of plants including a great number of species Lobelia inflata or Indian tobacco is an annual plant of North America whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice of an acrid taste It has often been used in medicine as an emetic expectorant etc Lobelia cardinalis is the cardinal flower remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers...
Lotus
A name of several kinds of water lilies as Nelumbium speciosum used in religious ceremonies anciently in Egypt and to this day in Asia Nelumbium luteum the American lotus and Nymphaeliga Lotus and Nymphaeliga caeligrulea the respectively white flowered and blue flowered lotus of modern Egypt which with Nelumbium speciosum are figured on its ancient monuments...
Madwort
A genus of cruciferous plants Alyssum with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods Alyssum maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum a fragrant white flowered annual...
Meadowsweet
The name of several plants of the genus Spiraeliga especially the white or pink flowered Spiraeliga salicifolia a low European and American shrub and the herbaceous Spiraeliga Ulmaria which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes...
Monanthous
Having but one flower one flowered...
Myrtle
A species of the genus Myrtus especially Myrtus communis The common myrtle has a shrubby upright stem eight or ten feet high Its branches form a close full head thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers followed by black several seeded berries The ancients considered it sacred to Venus The flowers leaves and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning...
outward developing
Developing away from an axis as in a flower cluster in which the oldest flowers are in the center the youngest near the edge...
Ovary
That part of the pistil which contains the seed and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit See Illust of Flower...
Primrose
An early flowering plant of the genus Primula Primula vulgaris closely allied to the cowslip There are several varieties as the white the red the yellow flowered etc Formerly called also primerole primerolles...
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