430 LESSONS WITS PLANTS 



the name of the plant. The author's name, there- 

 fore, identifies the plant name, and facilitates the 

 tracing of it to the place of original description. 

 We therefore write the name of the Fox-grape, 

 Vitis Labrusca L. (the L standing for Linnaeus). 



553a. "With the multiplication of writings desoribing plants, it 

 becomes more and more important that names be easily identified, 



Fig. 433. 

 Spray of sugar maple. 



and that authors use more care in referring to other writers who 

 may have mentioned or described the plant. The quotation in 551o 

 shows how carefully Linnaeus cited the places in which that par- 

 ticular vitis had been described. 



554. By common consent, no two plants are 

 allowed to have the same name. Therefore, when 

 a person names a plant, he must be sure that 



