Obs. Also Lichnidea. [mod.L., f. L. lychnid-, LYCHNIS.] ‘An old garden name for the genus Phlox’ (Britten & Holland).
1733. Miller, Gard. Dict. (ed. 2), s.v. Lychnis, Virginian Lychnidea … Carolina Lychnidea.
1741. Compl. Fam.-Piece, II. iii. 379. In Beds made of light rich Earth,… plant your Cuttings of Lichnidea’s.
1785. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xvi. (1794), 210. Such are all the species of Lychnidea: which you will know by their salver-shaped Corolla, with a bent tube.
