The Names Of Plants.pdf
The Names Of Plants.pdf
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Glossary<br />
Hernandia for Francisco Hernandez (1514–78), physician to Philip II of Spain and<br />
botanist, explorer and collector in S America<br />
Herniaria Rupture-wort (hernia), Dodoens’ name (1583) for its former medicinal<br />
use; some derive from Greek ernoj for a bud or shoot<br />
herpe-, herp- creeping, erpw, erpein, erpuzw; reptile, worm, erpeton<br />
Herpetacanthus Creeping-Acanthus, erpeton-akanqoj<br />
herpeticus -a -um ringworm-like, (from erpw I creep, erpein creeping); erpeton a<br />
creeping animal<br />
Herpolirion Creeping-lily, erpw-leirion (the rhizomes)<br />
Herpysma Creeping, erpuzw (the rhizomes)<br />
Herrania for General Pedro Alcantara Herran (1800–45), President of the State of<br />
New Granada (Colombia) (the state existed from 1830 to 1858)<br />
Herreanthus for Hans Herre (1895–1979), German botanist, author of <strong>The</strong> Genera of<br />
Mesembryanthemaceae (1971)<br />
hersii for Joseph Hers, who collected for the Arnold Arboretum in China c. 1920<br />
hesper- evening-; western-, esperioj, hesperius<br />
Hesperaloe Western-aloe, esper-aloh (Aloe-like with Texan–Mexican provenance,<br />
false Yucca)<br />
Hesperantha Evening-flower, esper-anqoj (time of anthesis)<br />
Hesperevax Western-Evax, hesperius-Evax (American genus resembling former<br />
genus Evax ( Filago)<br />
hesperides of the far west (for the classical world being the Iberian peninsula), esperioj,<br />
hesperides<br />
hesperidius -a -um of the evening, hesperus (cognate with vespers)<br />
hesperidus -a -um from the far west, of the nymph guardians of the golden apple<br />
tree; Citrus-fruited (Iberia and N Africa), esperidoj, hesperides<br />
Hesperis Evening, esperoj, hesperus (<strong>The</strong>ophrastus’ name, also the name for Venus<br />
or Hesperis the evening star, of the west, becoming Lucifer, the morning star, of<br />
the east)<br />
hespero-, hesperius -a -um western-, evening-, espera, esperoj, esperioj (Hesperia<br />
was the land of the west)<br />
Hesperocallis Western-beauty, espero-kaloj (American desert lily)<br />
Hesperochiron Western-Chironia, hespero-Chironia<br />
Hesperocnide Western-nettle, espero-knidh<br />
Hesperodoria Gift-of-the-west, espero-dwron<br />
Hesperolinon Western-flax, espero-linon<br />
Hesperomecon Western-poppy, espero-mhkwn<br />
Hesperopeuce Western-fir, espero-peukh<br />
Hesperoxiphion Western-sword (Western-Iris), espero-cifoj<br />
hessei for Paul Hesse, botanist and traveller<br />
Hetaeria Companionship or Brotherhood, etaireia, etairia<br />
heter-, hetero- varying-, differing-, diversely-, other-, eteroj, eteroheteracanthus<br />
-a -um having variously shaped spines, etero-akanqoj<br />
Heterachne Differing-chaff, etero-axnh (the differing fertile and sterile lemmas)<br />
heteradenus -a -um with varying glands, etero-adhn<br />
heterandrus -a -um having variable stamens, etero-anhr<br />
Heteranthemis Different-oxeye, etero-anqemij<br />
Heteranthera, heteranthus -a -um Differing-anthers, etero-anqera (mud plantain has<br />
one only in cleistogamous flowers but three in normal flowers)<br />
Heteranthoecia Varying-spikelets, etero-anq-oikoj (the unequal glumes and<br />
lemmas)<br />
heterocarpus -a -um having variably shaped fruits, etero-karpoj (the two halves of<br />
the binary fruits of Turgenia heterocarpa)<br />
Heterocentron Variable-spurred-one, etero-kentron (the two processes on the larger<br />
anthers)<br />
heterochlamydius -a -um with different cloaks, with both calyx and corolla, eteroxlamuj<br />
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