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For Professor Werner de Lachenal (1736-1800).**
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(North Italian dialect name for Viburnum, which the leaves resemble somewhat)
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For Philippe Picot de Lapeyrouse (Lapeirouse) Baron de Bazus (1744-1818).**
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For a gardener-botanist named Lasalle.**
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For Peter Lauremberg (1585-1639).**
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For the Lavater brothers, Johann Heinrich (1611-1691) and Johann Jacob? (1594-1636).**
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For Jules Paul Benjamin de Lessert (1773-1847).**
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For Martin Heinrich Karl von Lichtenstein (1780-1857).**
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For Mathias de L'Obel (1538-1616).**
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Combination of two generic names LOTUS (q.v.) + ONONIS.
onos, = an ass; something useful.
“In the 4th century B.C., Theophrastus** produced the first botanical description of restharrow. In the first century A.D., Dioscorides and Pliny described the use of the plant as a remedy for urinary complaints and stones. In the later writings of Roman antiquity, Galen referred to the effect of ononis on increasing urine flow and decreasing the size of urinary stones. Lonicerus wrote: “This herb is the most excellent of stone-herbs which flushes out the stone and urine in man and animals, which is why it is also called stone-root.”
(http://www.avogel.ch/en/plant-encyclopaedia/ononis_spinosa.php)
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onos, = an ass; something useful.
“In the 4th century B.C., Theophrastus** produced the first botanical description of restharrow. In the first century A.D., Dioscorides and Pliny described the use of the plant as a remedy for urinary complaints and stones. In the later writings of Roman antiquity, Galen referred to the effect of ononis on increasing urine flow and decreasing the size of urinary stones. Lonicerus wrote: “This herb is the most excellent of stone-herbs which flushes out the stone and urine in man and animals, which is why it is also called stone-root.”
(http://www.avogel.ch/en/plant-encyclopaedia/ononis_spinosa.php)
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lotos, = lotus.
The term lotos used by Theophrastus** for the legendary fruit eaten by the lotophagi, which produced forgetfulness and dreamy contentment.
The Greek lotus, a kind of clover or trefoil, on which horses fed.
The Cyrenean lotus or jujube, an African shrub, the fruit of which was eaten by certain tribes on the coast, hence called Lotophagi; the fruit was honey-sweet, in size as large as the olive, and in taste resembling the date.
The Egyptian lotus, the lily of the Nile.
There was also a lotus-tree growing in Africa, distinguished by its hard, black wood, of which flutes were made; hence 'lotos' is used poetically , for a flute.
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The term lotos used by Theophrastus** for the legendary fruit eaten by the lotophagi, which produced forgetfulness and dreamy contentment.
The Greek lotus, a kind of clover or trefoil, on which horses fed.
The Cyrenean lotus or jujube, an African shrub, the fruit of which was eaten by certain tribes on the coast, hence called Lotophagi; the fruit was honey-sweet, in size as large as the olive, and in taste resembling the date.
The Egyptian lotus, the lily of the Nile.
There was also a lotus-tree growing in Africa, distinguished by its hard, black wood, of which flutes were made; hence 'lotos' is used poetically , for a flute.
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lysis, = a loosing, setting free, release;
mache, = a quarrel, strife.
lysimachos, = ending strife.
Tradition relates that when Lysimachus, King of Thrace in Asia Minor (306-281 BCE), was chased by a bull he waved a plant of this genus to pacify the animal, thus releasing himself from strife.
Lysimachos (360-281BC)**.
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mache, = a quarrel, strife.
lysimachos, = ending strife.
Tradition relates that when Lysimachus, King of Thrace in Asia Minor (306-281 BCE), was chased by a bull he waved a plant of this genus to pacify the animal, thus releasing himself from strife.
Lysimachos (360-281BC)**.
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