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IMPATIENS , in See also:botany, a genus of See also:annual or biennial herbs, sometimes becoming shrubby, chiefly natives of the mountains of tropical See also:Asia and See also:Africa, but also found widely distributed in the See also:north temperate See also:zone and in See also:South Africa. The See also:flowers, which are See also:purple, yellow, See also:pink or See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white and often showy, are spurred and irregular in See also:form and See also:borne in the See also:leaf-axils. The name is derived from the fact that the See also:seed-pod when ripe discharges the seeds by the elastic separation and coiling of the valves. Impatiens Noli-me-tangere, touc e-not, an annual succulent See also:herb with yellow flowers, is prdl!ll6ly See also:wild in moist mountainous districts in north See also:Wales, See also:Lancashire and See also:Westmorland. I. Roylei, a tall See also:hardy succulent annual with See also:rose-purple flowers, a Himalayan See also:species, is See also:common in See also:England as a self-sown See also:garden plant or garden See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape. I. Balsamina, the common See also:balsam of gardens, a well-known annual, is a native of See also:India; it is one of the showiest of summer and autumn flowers and of comparatively easy cultivation. I. Sultani, a handsome plant, with See also:scarlet flowers, a native of See also:Zanzibar, is easily grown in a greenhouse throughout the summer, but requires warmth in See also:winter.
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