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Lychnis githago, Scap. (Agrostemma Githago, Linn.). Corn-cockle. Figs. 2220, 2221; also 1515. An annual weed in wheat-fields, and difficult to eradicate because the seeds are not readily screened from the wheat in the thresher or fanning-mill: plant strict, 2-3 ft. tall, white- hairy: lvs. nearly linear: fls. long-peduncled, red-purple and showy, the obovate entire petal-limbs exceeded by the narrow calyx-lobes—these lobes falling when the fr. is ripe. Eu.—Rarely cult, in old gardens.
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