The Names Of Plants.pdf

Glossary
blepharopus fringed with a ring of hairs at the base of the stalk, blefaro-pouj
Blepharospermum, blepharospermus -a -um Fringed-seeded-one, blefaro-sperma,
with fringed seeds ( Calothamnus)
Bletia for Louis Blet (c. 1794), apothecary who kept a garden in Algeciras
Bletilla Bletia-like
Blighia for William Bligh (1754–1817), thrice mutinied-against British sailor and
author of an account of sailing the South Seas (1792)
blitoides resembling Blitum, bliton-oeidhj (from a plant name used by Greek and
Latin writers)
Blitum an ancient name, bliton, blhton, for a kind of spinach, others say either for
Chenopodium or Amaranthus (cognate, blite, formerly for Chenopodium, and seablite,
for Sueda)
Bloomeria, bloomeri for H. G. Bloomer (1821–74), pioneer Californian botanist
blossfeldianus -a -um, blossfeldii for Robert Blossfeld, seedsman and cactus dealer of
Potsdam, Berlin
Blumea, blumei for Karel Lodewijk Blume (1789–1862), Dutch writer on the E
Indies
Blumenbachia for Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, FLS (1752–1840), medical doctor
of Gottingen
Blysmus meaning uncertain (bluzw surge out)
boarius -a -um, bovarius -a -um of the ox, or of oxen, bos, bovis
Bobartia for Jacob Bobart (1641–1719), Professor of Botany at Oxford
bocasanus -a -um, bocasensis, bocensis from the Sierra de Bocas, Mexican Panama, or
from Las Bocas, Mexico
Bocconia, bocconei, bocconii for Dr Paolo Boccone (1633–1704), Sicilian physician
and botanist
bockii for Herr Bock, the German Consul General in Oslo c. 1891
bodinieri for Emile Maria Bodinier (1842–1901), French missionary and botanist in
China
bodnantensis -is -e from Bodnant gardens, N Wales
Boea for Reverend Dr Bau of Toulon, France
Boehmeria, boehmeri for George Rudolph Boehmer (1723–1803), professor of
botany at Württemberg
Boenninghausenia for C. F. von Boenninghausen (1785–1864), German botanist
boeoticus -a -um from Voiotia district (Boeotia), Greece
Boerhaavia, boerhaavii for Herman Boerhaave (1668–1739), Professor at Leiden,
early systematist
Boesenbergia for Clara and Walter Boesenberg, in-laws of C. E. Otto Kuntze
bogotensis -is -e from Bogota, S America
bohemicus -a -um Bohemian, from Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic
boissieri, boissii for Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810–85), of Geneva (author of Flora
Orientalis)
bokharicus -a -um from Bukhara (Buchara, Bockhara), central Uzbekistan
bolanderi for Professor H. N. Bolander (1831–97) of Geneva, plant collector in
California and Oregon
bolanicus -a -um from the environs of Mount Bolan, Papua New Guinea
bolaris -is -e dark red, brick-coloured, modern Latin, bolaris; netted, boloj (the
surface is tessellated with reddish scales)
Bolax Small mound, bwloj (the mounded cushion habit)
Bolbitis With-bulbs, bulbus (many bear gemmae)
Bolbitius Occurring-with-Bolbitis
bolboflorus -a -um having bulbous flowers, bulbus-florum
boldo, boldus -a -um from an Araucarian vernacular name for the fruit of Peumus
boldo
Boletinus Little-bolete, diminutive of boletus
Boletus, boletus Mushroom, boletus, boleti; Clod (of earth), bwloj, bwlithj (for its
lumpy shape)
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