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Tagetes erecta

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#145 They called me Tagetes erecta, also known as Tagetes ernstii. I pay homage to the male botanist Adolf Ernst, Alfred Ernst, or Wallace Roy Ernst. They first catalogued me in 1753.

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Capsicum annuum

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Capsicum annuum. See image source here.

#121 They called me Capsicum annuum, also known as Capsicum tournefortii, and Capsicum hamiltonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, and William Hamilton, Arthur Andrew Hamilton, Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, or Arthur Hamilton. They first catalogued me in 1753.

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Oplismenus hirtellus

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Oplismenus hirtellus. See image source here.

#98 They called me Oplismenus hirtellus, also known as Panicum balfourii, and Oplismenus borhidii. I pay homage to the male botanists Borhid (I couldn’t find his records), and John Hutton Balfour, or Isaac Bayley Balfour. They first catalogued me in 1812.