# Digest urth.v028.n002 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 18 Jul 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### David Duffy *18 Jul 1999, 05:21* > From: "Roy C. Lackey" > > [N1] "...twined lupine, purple loosestrife, and white meadow rue." are the > wildflowers that deck the bowers of Sev and his fellow gods. Lupine (very > Wolfean) means "voraciousness; inspiration; dejection". Loosestrife > (lysimachia vulgaris) means "pretension". Lysimachia is Greek for "ending > ...meaning for rue of "disdain". I'm really impressed by this flowery analysis too. Just for this last list, maybe the English meanings/puns are also relevant, "loosing strife" as well as "ending strife", and "rue". ---