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 Eupatorioides. 



The names come crowding on — Dahl, Lobel, 

 Fuchs,'° Wistar, Garden, Bauhin,"^ Magnol," 

 Grew," Gloxin, Fothergill, Lettsom, Kamel," etc. 

 — and sometimes proper names with prefix or 

 suffix evoked angry expostulation from botanical 

 writers who objected to Vaseyanthus, Pringleo- 

 phytum, Neonelsonia and Paleohillia! " 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.' "" 



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

 after 1757.) 



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



"Caspar Bauhin, M. D., Basle, 1 560-1624. 



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

 Magnolia to France. 



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



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

 botanical traveller in Asia. He brought the Camelia japonica to 

 France. 



^''Science, August 23, 19H. 



