What's the difference between catchfly and lychnis?

Catchfly


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.

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Lychnis


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of Old World plants belonging to the Pink family (Caryophyllaceae). Most of the species have brilliantly colored flowers and cottony leaves, which may have anciently answered as wicks for lamps. The botanical name is in common use for the garden species. The corn cockle (Lychnis Githago) is a common weed in wheat fields.

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  • (1) Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV), poa semilatent virus (PSLV), and lychnis ringspot virus (LRSV) have previously been assigned to the hordeivirus group because of similarities in their particle morphology, physicochemical properties and serological analyses.
  • (2) Cardiotonic and diuretic effects of lychnis infusion were observed in 31 patients suffering from the circulation disorders of stages I, IIA, IIB caused by rheumatic diseases, pulmonary diseases and atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis.
  • (3) was designated as the mentha strain of lychnis ringspot virus (LRSV-M) on the basis of serological relationship with the type strain (LRSV-T) and similarities in nucleotide sequence and properties of genomic and replicative RNAs of the two strains.
  • (4) 195, 1-8) were purified from the seeds of Asparagus officinalis (two proteins, asparin 1 and 2), of Citrullus colocynthis (two proteins, colocin 1 and 2), of Lychnis chalcedonica (lychnin) and of Manihot palmata (mapalmin), from the roots of Phytolacca americana (pokeweed antiviral protein from roots, PAP-R) and from the leaves of Bryonia dioica (bryodin-L).

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