24 INTRODUCTION 



if I cannot find any really pertinent characteristic 

 name unoccupied." 



From this time on, the complimentary naming 

 of plants seems universal, Linnaeus ' taking the 

 lead in amical floral nomenclature. When he 

 had as guest or disciple any one heartily and 

 studiously interested in botany, he often dedi- 

 cated a new genus or species to him. Adam 

 Kuhn, his pupil and America's first professor of 

 botany, getting the Kuhnia Eupatorloides. 



The names come crowding on Dahl, Lobel, 

 Fuchs, 10 Wistar, Garden, Bauhin, 11 Magnol, 13 

 Grew, 13 Gloxin, Fothergill, Lettsom, Kamel, 14 etc. 

 and sometimes proper names with prefix or 

 suffix evoked angry expostulation from botanical 

 writers who objected to Vaseyanthus, Pringleo- 

 phytum, Neonelsonia and Paleohlllla! " It was 

 Dr. Otto Kuntze," says Professor Pollard, " who 

 astonished the world and carried off the palm in 

 this class by the establishment of such genera as 

 ' Sirhookera' and ' Peckifungus.' "" 



9 Carl Linnaeus, M. D., Sweden, 1707-1778. (" Carl von Linne," 

 after 1757.) 



10 Leonard Fuchs, M. D., Swabia, 1501-1566. 



11 Caspar Bauhin, M. D., Basle, 1560-1624. 



"Prof. Pierre Magnol de Montpellier, 1638-1715. Brought the 

 Magnolia to France. 



13 Nehemiah Grew, M. D., London, 1641-1712. 



14 Geo. Joseph Kamel or Camellus, 1661-1706. A Moravian Jesuit, 

 botanical traveller in Asia. He brought the Camelia japonica to 

 France. 



16 Science, August 23, 1911. 



