Names Of Plants: Sense and Sound - Part
SIX
Theo Smid
Hayward, California
Rhododendron Species L
R. lcteum
Franch. (L milky) Ch. "milky-yellow r."
R. latum
J.J. Sm. (L. pleasing) (LEE-tum) RHS gives definition as "bright". The word means joyous and the French translate it as
joyeux
, perhaps joyous = bright.
R. lagunculicrpum
(L. a small bottle + G. fruit)
R. lmii)
J. Sm. (of Robert Lami, fl. 1935)
R. lampngum
Miq. (of Lampung Bay, Sundra Strait, so. end of Sumatra)
R. lanatodes
Chamberlain (resembling
R. lanatum
) provisional name
R. lantum
Hook. f. (L. woolly, i.e. indumentum)
R. lanceoltum
Ridley (L. spear-shaped)
|
| R. lepidotum |
R. langerum
Tagg (L. wool-bearing, i.e. indumentum)
R. lapidsum
T.L. Ming (L. rocky, i.e. habitat) Ch. "stone-growing r."
R. lappnicom
Wahlenberg (of Lapland) intr. 1825 Parvifolium Group (L. small leaf)
R. lasiostyum
Hayata (G.
lasios
shaggy + style); collected in Taiwan by Dr. John L. Creech for USDA Nat'l Arbor.
R. latochae
Franch. (of Mme. de la Touche, French ornithologist who collected plants in China in 1898) Ch. "deerhorn r."
R. laudndum
Cowan (L. must be praised) Ch. "hairy-corolla r."
var.
temonse
Ward ex Cowan & Davidian (of Tiemu, Yunnan) Ch. 'Tiemu r."
R. ledeborii
Pojarkova (of Carl F. von Ledebour, 1785-1851, prof, in Dorpat, now Tartu, Esthonia;
Flora Altaica; Flora Rossica,
1842-53)
R. lei
Fang (of T.C. Lee, who collected in Sichuan) Ch. "purple-gland r."
R. leipodum
Hayata (G.
leios
smooth +
pous, podos
foot, i.e. pedicel) Ch. "smooth-footed r."
R. leishnicum
Fang & S.S. Chang (of Leishan Xian [Co.], Cuizhou Prov.)
R. lepidostylum
Balf.f. & Forr. (G.
lepis, lepidos
scale + style)
R. lepidtum
Wall ex G. Don (G. scaly) Ch. "scaly-glandular r."
R. leptnthum
F. v. Mueller (G.
leptos
thin + flower)
R. leptobrchion
Sleum. (G. thin +
brachion
arm, i.e. branch)
R. leptomrphum
Sleum. (G. thin +
morphe
form)
R. leptopplum
Balf.f. & Forr. (G. thin +
peplos
robe)
R. leptthrium
Balf.f. & Forr. (G. thin +
thrion
fig-leaf, leaf) Ch. "thin-leaf-horse-silver flower"
R. leucspis
Tagg (G.
leukos
white +
aspis
shield)
R. leucobtrys
Ridley (G. white +
botrus
bunch of grapes)
R. leucoggas
Sleum. (G. white giant)
R. levnei
Merr. (of Carl Oscar Levin, 1887-1928, who collected in China, mainly in Kwantung, 1916-28) Ch. "Nan Ling r."
R. leytnse
Merr. (of Leyte, Philippines)
R. liliiflrum
Lvl. (L. flower of lily) Ch. "lily r."
R. lindauenum
Koorder (of Gustav Lindau, 1866-1920, Ger. botanist)
R. lndleyi
T. Moore (of Dr. John Lindley, 1799-1865, Ph.D. Munich; secy. Horticultural Soc. of London; prof. of bot. Univ. Coll. of London, 1829-60; praefectus hort., Chelsea.) He prepared a report on the gardens at Kew which led to the creation of the Royal Botanic Garden. Among his many publications were:
Introduction to Natural System of Botany
, 1830,
Ladies' Botany
, 1834, and
Flora Medica
, 1838. He was a strong opponent of the Linnaean system.
Lindleya
H.B.K.
Neolindleya
Krnzl. Ch. "large-flowered r."
R. linere
Merr. (L. long and narrow)
R. linearilbum
R.C. Fang & A.L. Chang (L. linear-lobed) Ch. "linear-calyx r."
R. lngii
Chun (of K. Ling, who collected in no. Guangdong Prov., 1923-31) Ruyuan Azalea
R. lobonse
Capel f. (of the Lobo Mts. on Luzon, Philippines)
R. lchae
F. v. Mueller (of Lady Loch, patron of Australian horticulture; only
Vireya
native there Queensland)
R. loerzngii
J.J. Sm. (of J. Loerzing, a Ger. forester in the Dutch E. Indian Forest Service who collected in Sumatra)
R. lompohnse
J.J. Smith (of Goeroeng Lompoh, Celebes, now Sulawesi)
R. longesquamtum
C.K. Schneider (L. long-scaled) Ch. "long-scaled r."
R. longiflrum
Lindl. (L. long flower)
R. longiperultum
Hayata (L. with long bud-scales
R. lngipes
Rehd. &VVils. (L. long feet, i.e. pedicels)
var.
chieninum
(Fang) Chamb. (of Chien Sung-shu, b 1885 prof, and director of the Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica in Beijing) Ch. "Jin Shan r."
R. longistylum
Rehd. &Wils. (L. & G. long style) Ch. "long-axis r."
var.
decmbens
R.C. Fang (L. lying down) Ch. "trailing long-axis r."
R. lwii
Hook.f. (of Sir Hugh Low, 1824-1905, in Borneo 1844-; colonial secretary, Labuan; ascended Kinabalu, 1851; Resident in Perak, 1877-89, whence he sent plants to Kew; authority on orchids and other tropical plants;
Sarawak
, 1848;
Journal
, 1877;
Nepenthes lowii
Hook.f.)
R. lwndesii
Davidian (of Donald G. Lowndes, 1899-1956, Col. Royal Garhwal Rifles; collected in Himal., etc.; botanist on H.W. Tillman's exped. to Nepal, 1950;
Gentana lowndesii
Blatter)
R. ludlwii
Cowan (of Frank Ludlow, 1885-1972; opened school at Gyantze, Tibet; collected birds and plants for BM(NH); made several expeditions with George Sherriff in e. Himal. and s. e. Tibet; in charge of Brit. Mission in Lhasa) Ch. "broad-mouthed r."
R. ludwiginum
C.C. Hosseus (for his father, Ludwig)
R. lukiangnse
Franch. (of Lukiang, Yunnan Prov.)
R. luralunse
Sleum. (of Lake Luralu, Bougainville, Solomon Islands)
R. luteiflrum
Davidian (L. yellow flower)
R. luteosquamtum
Sleum. (L. yellow-scaled, i.e. lvs.)
R. lutescns
Franch. (L. becoming yellow) Ch. "yellow-flowered r."
R. lteum
Sweet (L. yellow) Pontica Azalea; intr. Eng. 1792, Arnold Arbor. 1892
R. lyi
(lee-) Lvl. (of J. Lyi, a Chinese collector) Ch. "long-styled r."
Rhododendron Species M
R. macabenum
Watt ex Balf. f. (of a Mr. McCabe, Deputy Commissioner, Naga Hills, Manipur India)
R. macgregriae
F. v. Mueller (of the wife of Sir William Macgregor, 1846-1919, M.D. Aberdeen; med. off. in colonial service in Sychelles, Mauritius; administrator Brit. New Guinea; gov. of Lagos, Nfld, Queensland; collected in New Guinea, Lagos, Labrador;
British New Guinea, Country and People
, 1897)
R. macrogmmum
Nakai (G.
makros
large + L. bud)
R. macrophllum
D. Don ex G. Don (G. large +
phullon
leaf) Coastal Monterey Co.- B.C. intr. 1850
R. macrospalum
(Maxim.) Makino (G. large sepal) Big-Sepal Azalea; described in
Kinshu Makura
, 1692; intr. 1889; often listed as
R. linearifolium
var.
macrosepalum
.
R. macrosphon
Sleum. (G. large tube)
R. maculferum
Franch. (L. spot-bearing) Ch. "pocked-flower r."
ssp.
anhweinse
(Wils.) Chamb. (of Anhui, Jiangxi Prov.) Ch. "Huangshan r."
R. maddnii
Hook.f. (of Edward Madden, Ire. 1805-Edinb. 1856, Lt.-Col. Bengal Artillery, 1830-49; sent seeds to Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, 1841-49; collected in Aden, Suez, Malta, 1849-; pres., Botanical Soc. of Edinburgh; "Diary of Excursion to the Shatool and Boorum Passes over the Himalays, 1845" (
(J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal,
v. 15, 1846), etc.)
Maddenia
Hook.f. & T. Thomson Ch. "hidden-vein r."
R. maus
(J.J. Sm.) Sleum. (L. larger)
R. malaynum
Jack (Malayan, i.e. Sumatra and Java) was the first species in
Vireya
described, by William Jack (1795-1822) of the East India Company, in
Mai. Misc.
, ii, 1822.
Malsian.
Apparently the collective name is derived from Italian
Malesi,
which includes the peninsula of Malacca (Malaya), the East Indies and the Philippines. Odoardo Beccari (Florence 1843-1920) studied at Kew and botanized in Borneo, New Guinea and Sumatra. He described
R. arfakianum
,
R. durionifolium
,
R. hatamense
,
R. papuanum
,
R. salicifolium
,
R. stenophyllum
,
R. subcordatum
,
R. variolosum
and
R. velutinum
in his
Malesia I
, Florence, 1877 (concluded with two more volumes, to 1890). (
Encidopedia ltaliana
, Rome, 1934)
Flora Malesiana
, which is published in Leiden, The Netherlands, appears periodically.
Malaysian
first appeared in
Encyd. Brit.
XV, 342/2 in 1883.
R. malltum
Balf.f. & Ward (G.
mallos
a lock of wool, i.e. red, woolly indumentum) Ch. "woolly r."
R. mriae
Hance (of Mary, wife of Rev. B.C. Henry, American Presbyterian Board of Missions) She accompanied her husband on his journeys to China and prepared his herbarium material. Ch. "Lingnan r."
R. marisii
Hemsl. & Wils. (of Charles Maries, c. 1851-1902, who collected for James Veitch & Sons in Japan & China; supt. of gardens to Maharajah of Durbhungah, later to Maharajah of Dwalior;
Fraxinus mariesii
Hook.f.)
R. mariesii
was discovered by Fortune, later by Maries in 1878. Ch. "whole-mountain r."
R. martininum
Balf.f. & Forr. (of J. Martin, gardener at Caerhays, Cornwall)
R. maximowiczinum
Lvl. (of Carl J. Maximowicz, 1827-1891, the greatest authority in his time on the flora of Japan and Manchuria, director of the botanic garden, St. Petersburg.) He explored the region of the Amur River on horseback and dog-sled, 1854-56, and again (with collecting in Japan) in 1859-64. From Japan he shipped 72 chests of specimens. Introductions included species of
Actindia
,
Celastrus
,
Elaeagnus, Enkianthus, Jeffersonia, Ligularia, Ligustrum, Lonicera, Paeonia, Rodgersia, Rosa, Rubus
and
Spiraea
. Later they were distributed throughout Europe.
R. mximum
L. (L. largest) N.S. & Ot. to Ga. & Ala., Ohio, intr. 1736
R. maxwllii
Gibbs (of T.C. Maxwell, 1822-1908)
R. meddinum
Forr. (of G. Medd, agent of the I.F. Company, Bhamo, Upper Burma) Ch. "red-calyx r."
var.
atrokermesinum
Tagg (L.
atro-
black + Arabic
Kermes
, genus of insects which produce a crimson dye)
R. megaclyx
Balf.f. & Ward (G. large calyx) Ch. "large-calyx r."
R. megertum
Balf.f. & Forr. (G. from
megas
large +
eratos
loveliness) Ch. "waving r."
R. mekongnse
Franch. (of the Mekong Valley) Viridecens Group (L. becoming green)
var.
longipilsum
(Cowan) Cullen (L. long-hairy)
var.
melinnthum
(Balf.f. & Ward) Cullen (G.
meli
honey +
anthos
flower) Ch. "honey-flower r."
var.
rubrolinetum
(Balf.f. & Farr.) Cullen (L. red-lined)
R. melntherum
Schlechter (G.
melas
black + anther)
R. meliphgidum
J.J. Sm. (G.
meli
honey +
phagein
to eat up, waste)
R. mengtsznse
(mung-dzuh-ense) Balf. f. & W.W. Sm. (of Mengzi, s. e. Yunnan)
R. micrnthum
Turchaninov (G. small flower) intr. 1900 Ch. "shining-mountain" or "white-mirror" r.
R. microgynum
Balf.f. & Forr. (G. small ovary)
R. micromalaynum
Sleum. (a small
R. malayanum
)
R. micromres
Tagg (G. small
meros
part [s] )
R. microphllum
J.J. Sm. (G. small
phullon
leaf)
R. microphton
Franch. (G. small
phuton
plant) Ch. "shining-hair r." Pinkflush Azalea disc. by Delavay c.1884; intr. into Eng. by Forrest, 1913
var.
trichnthum
A.L. Chang (G.
trich-
hair + flower) Ch. "Bijiang bright-haired r."
R. mmefes
Tagg & Forr. (G. lit., an imitator)
R. mindananse
Merr. (of Mindanao, Philippines)
R. minitum
Cowan (L. vermilion)
R. minutiflrum
Hu (L. very small flower) Ch. "small-flowered r."
R. mnus
Michx. (L. less) S.C.-Ga.-Ala. intro. 1786 Carolinianum Group (of Carolina) cult. 1815
var.
chapmnii
(A. Gray) Duncan & Pullen (of Alvan W. Chapman, 1809-1899, Amer. botanist) w. Fla. intr. 1936
R. minyanse
Philipson & Philipson (of Minya, s. w. Sichuan)
R. mlle
G. Don (L. soft, i.e. hairs) Chinese Azalea; Ch. "sheep azalea, trouble-sheep flower, six axis"
R. mollinum
Koorder (L. supple)
R. mollicmum
Balf.f. & W.W. Sm. (L. soft hair)
R. monnthum
Balf.f. & W.W. Sm. (G. one flower) Ch. "one-flowered r."
R. monosemtum
Hutch. (G. one +
sema
mark) Ch. "purple-spotted r." Possibly a hybrid
R. montrosenum
Davidian (of Molly, Duchess of Montrose), formerly called
R. mollyanum
for her first name
R. mrii
Hayata (of U. Mori, a collector in Taiwan)
R. morsheadinum
Millais (of Capt. Morshead, who accompanied Capt. F.M. Bailey on his travels in China in 1913) Bailey was the first to collect the plant.
R. moulmainnse
Hook, (of Moulmein on the Salween R., upper Burma)
R. moultnii
Ridley (of Maj. John C. Moulton, 1886-1926, curator, Sarawak Mus., chief sec'y in Sarawak; director, Raffles Mus. & Library, Singapore)
Moultonianthus
Merr.
R. moupinnse
Franch. (of Moupin, w. Sichuan) Ch. "Baoxing r."
R. mucronultum
Turchaninov (L. small-pointed) intr. 1882 Ch. "welcome-red r."
R. multcolor
Miq. (L many-colored; has variation of color in the corolla on the same specimen)
R. multinrvium
Sleum. (L. many-nerved, i.e. lvs.)
R. musccola
J.J. Sm. (L. moss-dweller)
R. myrsiniflium
Ching in sched. ex Fang et M.Y. He (Myrsine-leaf, i.e. mostly elliptic-ovate to 1in. long) Myrsine Azalea
R. myrsintes
Sleum. (like Myrsine)
Rhododendron Species N
R. naamkwannse
(nan-kwun-) Merr. (of Nankun, on rocky cliffs, Guangdong Prov.) Nankun Azalea
R. nakaharae
(sometimes misspelled
nakaharai
) (no stress) Hayata (of G. Nakahara, a Japanese collector) seed intr. to U.SA by R. Bovee, Portland, Ore.
R. nakotltum
Balf.f. & Forr. (G. lit. with the wool plucked off, i.e. from white floccose shoots)
R. nankotaisannse
Hayata (of Mt. Nankotaisan, Taiwan)
R. nanophytum
Sleum. (G.
nanos
a dwarf +
phuton
plant)
R. natlicum
Sleum. (L. related to a birthday found on the collector's birthday?)
R. neobritnnicum
Sleum. (of the isl. of New Britain, Melanesia)
R. neriiflrum
Franch. (flower of
Nerium
, Oleander) Ch. "flame-red r." Euchaites Group (G. lit., with beautiful leaves)
ssp.
agtum
(Balf.f. & Forr.)Tagg (G. lit., admired)
ssp.
phaedrpum
Balf.f. & Forr.) Tagg (G.
phaios
dusky + G. & L.
drupa
ripe fruit)
R. neriiflium
Schlechter (with leaf of
Nerium)
R. nervulsum
Sleum. (L. much-veined)
R. nhatrangnse
Dop in Lecomte (of Nhatrang, Vietnam)
R. nieuwenhusii
J.J. Sm. (of A. Nieuwenhuis, a Dutch medical doctor and ethnologist who collected in cent. Borneo)
R. nigroglandulsum
Nitzelius (L. with many black glands) Ch. "black-scale r."
R. nippnicum
Matsumura (Japanese) Nippon Azalea,
Oba-tsutsuji
seed from E.H. Wilson to Arnold Arbor. in 1914
R. nitdulum
Matsumura (L. somewhat shiny) Ch. "shining r."
var.
omeinse
Philipson & Philipson (of Mt. Omei, a sacred mt. in Sichuan)
R. nivle
Hook.f. (L. snowy) Ch. "snow-layer r."
ssp.
austrle
Philips. & Philips. (L. southern)
ssp.
borele
Philips. & Philips. (G. & L. northern)
R. nveum
Hook.f. (L. snow-like)
R. noriakinum
T. Suzuki (of Noriak, no. Taiwan)
R. nortniae
Merr. (of Mrs. J.B. Norton [Jesse Baker], 1877-1938)
R. ndipes
Nakai (L. naked foot, i.e. glabrescent twigs) Nudipe Azalea,
Saikoku Aka Tsutsuji
R. nummtum
J.J. Sm. (L. having much money, i.e. I. lvs rounded like coins 2. it grows on gravel left by gold-mining) s. e. New Guinea
R. nuttllii
Booth (of Thomas Nuttall, Yorks. 1786-Liverpool 1859. He emigrated to Philadelphia as a printer in 1808; studied the flora and birds of eastern U.S., the Mississippi Valley, the Missouri and Columbia rivers. Curator of Harvard U. Botanical Garden. His
Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada
, 1832, made him an authority in that field. Among his botanical works:
The Genera of North American Plants
..., 1818;
An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany
, 1827. After Nuttall had left Harvard to cross the continent he came to Cal. from Ore. via Hawaii, making a large collection of west-coast plants, rocks and shells which he brought back to Boston around Cape Horn. The voyage is made famous by his former student Richard Henry Dana, who described the eccentric and lovable professor in
Two Years Before the Mast
. James Fenimore Cooper also caricatured him in one of his novels,
The Prairie
. Ch. "magnolia r."
Nuttallia
Torrey & A. Gray
Rhododendron Species O
R. oblongiflium
(Small) Millais (L. oblong leaf) 1st collected by A. Fender in Ark. in 1850; intr. by Arnold Arbor. 1917
R. obscrum
Sleum. (L. obscure)
R. occidentle
(Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray (L. western) Western Azalea; coast ranges Santa Cruz Co.-Ore.; Sierra Nevada, Kern-Siskiyou cos.; disc, by Capt. Beechy in 1827; intr. c. 1850
R. ochrceum
Rehd. & Wils. (L. earth-yellow) Ch. "E-Ma r."
R. oldhmii
Maxim, (of Richard Oldham, 1837-1864, Kew gardener who collected in e. Asia, Khasia Hills, India; d. on Amoy)
Desmodium oldhami
Oliver Oldham Azalea, Ch. "brick-red r."
R. olignthum
Sleum. (G.
oligos
small + flower)
R. opulntum
Sleum. (L. sumptuous)
R. orbiculre
Decaisne (L. round, i.e. lvs.) Ch. "circular-leaved r."
ssp.
cardibasis
(Sleum.) Chamb. (G. with a heart-shaped base)
R. orbicultum
Ridl. (L. circular, i.e. lvs.)
R. oradum
Wevnh. (G. of the Oreades, mt.-nymphs)
R. oretes
Sleum. (G. lit. a mountaineer)
R. oreodxa
Franch. (G.
oreo-
of a mt. +
doxa
glory) Ch. "mountain-glory r."
var.
fargsii
(Franch.) Chamb. (of Pre Farges, 1844-1912, missionary & naturalist, Fr. For. Missions in n. w. Sichuan; sent seeds to Vilmorin, including first of
Davidia involucrata
) Ch. "pink r."
var.
shensinse
Chamb. (of Shaanxi, China)
R. oreotrphes
W.W. Sm. (G. mountain +
trephein
be grown) Ch. "mountain-born r."
R. orthocldum
Balf.f. & Forr. (G.
orthos
straight +
klados
a young shoot)
var.
longistylum
Philips. & Philips. (L. long style)
var.
microlecum
Philips. & Philips. (G. small +
leukos
light/white)
R. otakumii
(no stress) Yamazaki (of the Otakumi R. on Yakushima) Azalea
R. ovatospalum
Yamam (L. ovate sepal)
R. ovtum
Planch. (L. a hen's egg-shaped)
R. oxycoccodes
Sleum. (with lvs. like
Vaccinium oxycoccus
, Small Cranberry)
R. oxyphllum
Franch. (G.
oxus
sharp, i.e. pointed, leaf)
Other Ericaceous Genera L
Ldum
L. (the name of a sp. of
Cstus
yielding aromatic resin, which the aroma of
Ledum
was thought to resemble:
leda
in Pliny 12, 75, and
ledon
in Dioscorides 1, 97, 3) 3-4 spp. no. temp. Labrador Tea
L glandulsum
Nutt. (L. glandular, i.e. lvs. glandular-lepidote beneath) n. w No. Amer. to Rocky Mts. intr. 1894
var.
columbinum
(Piper) C.L. Hitche (of the Columbia) coastal, so. Wash.-Santa Cruz Co., Cal.
L groenlndicum
Oeder (of Greenland) Labrador Tea, intr. 1763
L. palstre
L. (L. of the marsh) Crystal Tea, Wild Rosemary; no. Eur., no. Asia intr. 1762
var.
decmbens
Aiton (L. lying down) No. Amer., no. Asia; intr. 1762
var.
dilattum
Wahlb. (L. broadened, i.e. lvs.) no. Scandinavia
Leiophllum
Hedwig f. (G.
leios
smooth +
phullon
leaf) Sand Myrtle 1 ev. sp. No. Amer.
L. buxiflium
(Bergius) Elliott (leaf of
Buxus
) Pine Barrens, N.J.; intr. 1736
var.
hgeri
(Small) C.K. Schneider (disc, by Arthur M. Huger, 1842-1925) N.J.-S.C, e. Ky. cult.1880
var.
prostrtum
(Loud) A. Gray (L. on the ground) Allegheny S.M. mts. Tenn., N.C., no. Ga.
Leuctho
D. Don (of Leucothoe, wife of Athamas, king of Thebes. Before her marriage she was Ino, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, founders of the human race. She nursed the infant Bacchus. After her marriage her name was changed and she became the sea deity to whom sailors prayed for protection from storms and perils of the sea.
Od. V.
133. The name means "white goddess.") 4 spp. e. Asia 40 Amer. Fetterbush
L. axillris
(Lam.) D. Don (L. axillary, i.e. the racemes) s. e. U.S. intr. 1765
L davsiae
Torr. ex A. Gray (of Nancy Jane Davis, 1833-1921), Sierra Laurel, Ore.-Cal., intr. 1853
L. grayna
Maxim, (of Asa Gray, 1810-1888, prof. of botany, Harvard Univ., preeminent American systematist) Japan, intr. 1890
L. keiskei
(no stress) Miq. (of Keisuke Ito, 1803-1901, Japanese botanist), Japan, intr. 1915
L. populiflia
(Lam) Dippel (L. poplar-leaf) So. Car.-Fla. intr. 1765
L. racemsa
(L.) A. Gray (L. flowering in racemes), Sweetbells, Mass-Fla., intr. 1736
L. recrva
(Buckley) A. Gray (L. turned back, i.e. branches & racemes re-curved & spreading)Va.-Ala.
Loiseleria
(lwah-zuh-) Desvaux (named for Jean-L.-A. Loiseleur-Deslong-champs, 1774-1849, prominent Fr. physician & botanist) 1 circumpolar sp.; cult. 1800
L. procmbens
(L.) Desv. (L. bending forward) Originally classified by Linnaeus as
Rhododendron procumbens
. Creeping or Alpine Azalea; Fr.
azale couche
; Ger.
Alpenheide
Lynia
Nutt. (named for John Lyon, Scot.c.1765-N.C. 1814, gardener to William Hamilton of Philadelphia) Lyon traced the trail of John & William Bartram in Ga. & e. Fla., collected hundreds of Appalachian plants, grew them in gardens in N.C. and Phila. and periodically snipped them to London for sale. He is said to have been the last to see the famous group of
Franklinia alatamaha
(in June 1803), discovered by the Bartrams, "Journal, 1799-1814," in
Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.
1963, 1-69). 40-50 spp. e. Asia, No. Amer., chiefly in W. Indies.
L. ferrugnea
(Walt.) Nutt. (L. rusty, i.e. color of lvs.) coastal plain, S.C.-Fla.
L. fruticsa
(Michx.)Torrey ex B.L Robinson (L. bushy) above
L. ligustrna
(L.) DC (resembling
Ligustrum
Privet) Male Berry, He Huckleberry, Male Blueberry; Maine-Fla., Tex. intr. 1748
var.
foliosiflra
(Michx.) Fern. (L. leaves among flowers) s. e. Va.-Fla.
L. lucida
(Lam) Rehd. (L. shining) Tetterbush Va.-Fla., La.
L. marna
(L.) D. Don (of Maryland) Staggerbush R.I.-Fla., Ark. intr. 1736
L. ovaliflia
(Wallich) Drude (oval lvs.) w. China, Himal. intr. 1825
var.
ellptica
(Siebold & Zucc.) Hand.-Mazz. (L. elliptic, i.e. lvs.) China, Japan
Other Ericaceous Genera M
Maclenia
Hook, (named for John Maclean, fl. 1830s-50s, merchant in Lima, Peru, 1832-54; sent plants to Wm. J. Hooker and Wm. Herbert; employed A. Mathews to collect plants, now at Kew) c.32 spp., evergreen, often epiphytic shrubs, so. Mex.-Peru
M. insgnis
M. Martens & Galeotti (L. distinguished) so. Mex.-Guatemala
Menzisia
James E. Smith (named for Archibald Menzies, 1754-1842, surgeon & botanist who sailed with Cook on his last voyage) Menzies was with Capt. George Vancouver on the
Discovery
, 1792-94, during the survey of the coast of the Pacific Northwest to Nootka Sound, doing extensive botanizing. When he complained to Vancouver that his plants were dying because the man assigned to care for them had been transferred to other duties, he (Menzies) was put into the brig for insubordination. 7 spp. No. Amer., e. Asia Mock Azalea
M. ciliiclyx
(Miq.) Maxim. (L. fringed calyx) Japan intr. 1915
var.
multiflra
(Maxim.) Makino (L. many flowers) intr. 1915
M. ferrugnea
Smith (L. rusty, i.e. color of lvs.) Rustyleaf no. Cal.-Alaska intr. 1811
M. pentndra
Maxim. (G.
penta
five + anthers) Japan intr. 1905 (or 1892)
M. pilsa
(Michx.) Antoine L. de Jussieu (L. hairy, i.e. lvs.) Minniebush Penn.-Ga. &Ala. intr. 1866
M. purprea
Maxim. (L. purple; actually bright red) Japan intr. 1915
Other Ericaceous Genera O
Oxydndrum
DC (G. oxus sour + tree, i.e. acid taste of the lvs.) 1 sp. decid. tree
O. arbreum
(L.) DC (L. tree-like) Sourwood, Sorrel-Tree, Titi, Penn.-so. III. so.-Fla. & La. brill, in aut. intr. 1747