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amaryllis

(Encyclopedia)amaryllis ămˌərĭlˈĭs [key], common name for some members of the Amaryllidaceae, a family of mostly perennial plants with narrow, flat leaves and with lilylike flowers borne on separate, leafless...

quillwort

(Encyclopedia)quillwort, common name for several species of the plant genus Isoetes, which grow in ponds, slow streams, and swampy places. See Lycopodiophyta. ...

touch-me-not

(Encyclopedia)touch-me-not, common name for any plant of the genus Impatiens of the jewelweed family. I. balsamina is also called balsam. ...

soapwort

(Encyclopedia)soapwort, name for a soap plant of the pink family. ...

Fortune, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Fortune, Robert, 1813–80, British botanist. He traveled in Asia for the Royal Horticultural Society and later for the East India Company and brought back to England a number of chrysanthemums, the J...

moth mullein

(Encyclopedia)moth mullein, common name for the mullein Verbascum blatteria, a plant native to Europe and naturalized as a weed in the United States. It is a member of the family Scrophulariaceae (figwort family). ...

Romeoville

(Encyclopedia)Romeoville, village (1990 pop. 14,074), Will co., NE Ill., on the Des Plaines River, with access to the Illinois and Mississippi Canal and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal; inc. 1901. A suburb of t...

Silver Spring

(Encyclopedia)Silver Spring, uninc. city (1990 pop. 76,046), Montgomery co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C. It is a major suburban office center and has a large naval ordnance laboratory, s...

Saluda

(Encyclopedia)Saluda, river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising in the Blue Ridge, W S.C., and flowing southeast across the Piedmont to the Broad River (with which it forms the Congaree) near Columbia. The Saluda Dam (...

Belovo

(Encyclopedia)Belovo byĕlôˈvə [key], city, S central Siberian Russia. One of the largest industrial cen...