The Names Of Plants.pdf
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Glossary<br />
bruniifolius -a -um with close awl-like leaves like Brunia, Brunia-folium<br />
brunneifolius -a -um having brown leaves, brunneus-folium<br />
brunneocroceus -a -um yellowish-brown, brownish-saffron, brunneus-croceus<br />
brunneo-incarnatus -a -um brownish-flesh-coloured, brunneus-incarnatus<br />
brunneoviolaceus -a -um brownish-violet, brunneus-violaceus<br />
Brunnera for Samuel Brunner (1790–1844), Swiss botanist<br />
brunnescens browning, turning brown, brunneus-essentia<br />
brunneus -a -um russet-brown, bruneus, brunneus<br />
Brunnichia for M. T. Brunnich, eighteenth-century Danish naturalist<br />
Brunonia, brunonianus -a -um, brunonis Smaethman’s name to commemorate<br />
Robert Brown (vide infra) (Brunoniaceae)<br />
brunonianus -a -um, brunonis -is -e for Robert Brown FRS (see brownii)<br />
Brunscrinum the composite name for hybrids between Brunsvigia and Crinum<br />
Brunsdonna the composite name for hybrids between Amaryllis belladonna and<br />
Brunsvigia<br />
Brunsvigia to the honour of the House of Brunswick (Charles William Ferdinand,<br />
Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, was father of George IV’s estranged wife,<br />
Caroline (1768–1821)<br />
brutius -a -um from Calabria, S Italy (Brutia)<br />
Bryanthus, bryanthus -a -um Moss-flower, bru-anqoj<br />
bryicolus -a -um of mossy habitats, living with mosses, bryum-cola<br />
brymerianus -a -um for W. E. Brymer MP, of Islington House, Dorchester<br />
bryoides moss-like, bruon-oeidhj, bryum-oides<br />
bryomorphus -a -um of moss-like form, bruon-morfh, bryum-morphus<br />
Bryonia Sprouter, bruw (Dioscorides also called the plant black vine, ampeloj<br />
melaina)<br />
bryoniifolius -a -um having leaves resembling those of Bryonia, Bryonia-folium<br />
bryophorus -a -um bearing epiphyllous bryophytes, moss-bearing, bruw-foroj<br />
(the foliage)<br />
Bryophyllum Leaf-sprouter, bruw-fullon (ability to produce plantlets at leaf<br />
margins)<br />
bryotrophis -is -e nourished by mosses, living on mosses, bruon-trofh<br />
Bryum Moss, bruon, bryum<br />
bubalinus -a -um, bubulinus -a -um of cattle, of oxen, dull brown, bubulus<br />
buboni- of the groin, boubwn<br />
Bubonium a name for a plant used to treat groin swellings, boubwnoj<br />
bucciferus -a -um, buciferus -a -um cheek-bearing, bucca-fero (the inner perianth<br />
members of Tigridia)<br />
buccinatorius -a -um, buccinatus -a -um trumpet-shaped, horn-shaped, trumpeter,<br />
bucinator, bucinatoris<br />
buccosus -a -um cheeky, distended like a trumpeter’s cheek, bucca, buccae<br />
bucculentus -a -um inflated, distended, bucca, buccae<br />
bucephalophorus -a -um ox-head bearing, bucephalus-fero (? the fruiting heads)<br />
bucephalus -a -um bull-headed, bou-kefalh (Bucephalus was Alexander the Great’s<br />
favourite horse)<br />
bucerus -a -um ox-horn-shaped, bou-keraj<br />
Buchanani for Francis Buchanan Hamilton (1762–1829) of Calcutta Botanic<br />
Garden, John Buchanan (1819–98), specialist on New Zealand plants, or other<br />
Buchanans<br />
bucharicus -a -um from Bokhara (Bukhara or Buchara), Uzbekistan<br />
Buchloe Cow-grass, boos-xloh<br />
Buchnera, buchneri for Dr Wilhelm Buchner of Nuremberg, alpine botanist<br />
Buchosia for the French botanist P. J. Buc’hoz (1731–1807), author of Plantes nouvelles<br />
découvertes (1779), who named two species from Chinese art and saddled<br />
taxonomy with two inexact epithets (Buchosia foetida was raised to express contempt<br />
for his work)<br />
bucinalis -is -e, bucinatus -a -um trumpet-shaped, trumpet-like, bucina, bucinae<br />
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