species are found in tlie Old World and in North America, who- 

 ever named this species was giving it a geographical designation 

 to distinguish it from its relatives elsewhere. 



Fragaria chiloemis (Coast Strawberry). "Chiloensis" means 

 "from Chiloe," an island off the coast of Chile. The "-ensis" 

 suffix means that plants are from whatever place is designated by 

 the prefix. We have species in other genera named idahoensis, 

 utahensis, canadensis, etc. Fragaria chiloensis is a native of both 

 California and Chile; there are several other plant species with 

 this particular distributional pattern. 



Pinus monticola (Western White Pine). "Monticola" means 

 "living in the mountains." There are several other pines in the 

 California mountains, so this specific name is not as appropriate 

 as it might be. Nevertheless, there is only one pine named Pinus 

 monticola. 



Sequoia sempervirens (Coast Redwood). "Sempervirens" 

 means "evergreen." Since most conifers are evergreen, you might 

 ask how this came to be attached to our redwood. When it was 

 first named, the Coast Redwood was assigned to Taxodium, the 

 Bald Cypress genus. Taxodium species are all deciduous, that 

 is, they lose their leaves seasonally, usually in the autumn. Had 

 the Coast Redwood really been a Taxodium, it would have been 

 an unusual one in its evergreen characteristics. But it isn't a 

 "bald" cypress. Later, the plant was transferred to a new genus, 

 Sequoia, but because of the international code governing 

 nomenclature of plants, the specific name carried across from 

 one genus to the other. Thus, Taxodium sempervirens became 

 Sequoia sempervirens. 



Pinus albicaulis (Whitebark Pine). Here is a case of a common 

 name paralleHng the binomial. "Albicaulis" means "white stem," 

 and refers to the whitish bark of this montane pine. 



Pinus edulis (Pinyon Pine). "Edulis" means "edible," in 

 reference to the edible "pine nuts" gathered from this tree. 



Pinus torreyana (Torrey Pine). Named after John Torrey, an 

 important 19th century American botanist who resided in New 



