Definition of Bartonia

1. Noun. Annual grown especially for its fragrant golden nocturnal flowers.

Exact synonyms: Mentzelia Lindleyi
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Genus Mentzelia, Mentzelia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bartonia

bartisan
bartisans
bartizan
bartizans
bartlett
bartlett pear
barton
barton fracture
bartonella
bartonella henselae
bartonella infections
bartonella quintana
bartonellaceae
bartonellaceae infections
bartonellosis
bartonia (current term)
bartonite
bartons
bartop
bartops
bartram
bartter's disease
baruch HaShem
barunduki
baruria
barwalking
barware
barwares
barway
barways

Literary usage of Bartonia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1900)
"G. Kennedy and the writer collected several plants of bartonia, which, ... Their appearance was altogether different from that of bartonia tenella, ..."

2. The British Flower Garden, (series the Second): Containing Coloured Figures by Robert Sweet (1833)
"bartonia albescens. White-stalked bartonia. Linnean Class and Order. ... D.Don Mss. bartonia albescens. Gill. ..."

3. The Ladies Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"This frost was a very slight one ; and though it killed the bartonia, ... which were trained against a wall behind the bartonia ; while a crimson Verbena ..."

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