London . 1. m. herbaceous annual plant, the family of the Cruciferae, with smooth stems of two or three decimetres high, divided into irregular toothed lobes petiolate leaves, stalked flowers, small yellow petals and fruit in Vanilla with glossy, Brown, ellipsoidal seed. It is common in something wet lands and it has been used against scurvy. 2. m. pl. u c. sing. Herbaceous plant in the family Liliaceae, with leaves long, narrow, radical, grooved and lax, fragrant, purple, flowers in spikes about a central escaped from twelve to fifteen inches, and membranous envelope capsular fruit and spherical seeds. It is very common in dry lands and its eltos.