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lysimachia Catalan
genus lysimachia Loosestrife: a cosmopolitan genus found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; inclined to be invasive.
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He had seized on Lysimachia, after dislodging the praetor and garrison of the Aetolians.
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On Lysimachia H. Muller 'Nature' September 1873 page 433.
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There Lysimachia was taken from the Aetolian garrison, and Perinthus, which stood in the relation of clientship to Byzantium, was likewise occupied.
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The soldiers of Antiochus, in conformity to a stipulation, were escorted, through Macedonia and Thrace, by a body of Macedonians, and conducted to Lysimachia.
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As Seleucus stopped to sacrifice at a celebrated altar near Lysimachia in Thrace, Ptolemy treacherously assassinated him by stabbing him in the back (280).
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Lysimachia foenum-graecum has been used as an oriental medicine with anti-inflammatory effect.
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Lysimachia vulgaris, Euphrasia officinalis, Rhinanthus crista-galli, and Viola tricolor come under this head.
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Hereabouts are the flowers, tall and plenty-foxglovesand mullein, such as we have at home, and loosestrife (lysimachia), both the yellow and the purple.
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