
#303 They called me Ximenia americana, also known as Ximenia rogersii. I pay homage to the male botanist Richard Sanders Rogers. They first catalogued me in 1753.

#303 They called me Ximenia americana, also known as Ximenia rogersii. I pay homage to the male botanist Richard Sanders Rogers. They first catalogued me in 1753.

#299 They called me Torenia crustacea, also known as Vandellia brownii, and Lindernia crustacea var. smithii. I pay homage to the male botanists Robert Brown, Clair Alan Brown, Nicholas Edward Brown, Addison Brown, Andrew Phillip Brown, or William Brown, and James Edward Smith, Johannes Jacobus Smith, Winifred Smith, Christo Albertyn Smith, Charles Piper Smith, Gerard Edwards Smith, Gilbert Morgan Smith, Henry George Smith, Hamilton Lanphere Smith, Albert Charles Smith, Alan Reid Smith, or William Wright Smith. They first catalogued me in 1827.

#297 They called me Selaginella substipitata, also known as Selaginella sherringii, and Selaginella nashii. I pay homage to the male botanists Sherring (I couldn’t find his records), and George Valentine Nash. They first catalogued me in 1843.