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Lolium perenne

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Lolium perenne. See image source here.

#193 They called me Lolium perenne, also known as Lolium marschallii, Lolium trabutii, Lolium gmelinii, and Lolium perenne subsp. trabutii. I pay homage to the male botanists Marschall (I couldn’t find his records), Trabut (I couldn’t find his records), and Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Johann Georg Gmelin, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, or Carl Christian Gmelin. They first catalogued me in 1753.

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Brachypodium sylvaticum

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Brachypodium sylvaticum. See image source here.

#192 They called me Brachypodium sylvaticum, also known as Brachypodium wattii, Brachypodium sylvaticum subsp. spryginii, Brachypodium fontanesii, and Brachypodium spryginii. I pay homage to the male botanists Sprygin (I couldn’t find his records), Fontanes (I couldn’t find his records), and George Watt, or David Allan Poe Watt. They first catalogued me in 1812.

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Iris pseudacorus

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Iris pseudacorus. See image source here.

#16 They called me Iris pseudacorus, also known as Iris bastardii. I pay homage to the male botanist Toussaint Bastard. They first catalogued me in 1753.