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Re: The name game

Dear All: About bugbane and name-changes, I'm am reminded of the story of
the Missouri evening primrose. Discovered in the early 1800s by Thomas
Nuttall, English plant explorer, who sent seed to London where it appeared
under the name Oenothera macrocarpa (large seedpods). In 1913, John Sims,
English, the editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, ignored the proper name
and called it O. missourensis, and adding insult to injury, misspelled it,
dropping the "i" in Missouri. In 1976 Hotus the III still called it O.
missourensis but some years later the mistake was found and the plant's
scientific name went back to O. macrocarpa. Today, confusion rules.
    So regardless of a change that, except for this list, would have gone
unheralded and unnoticed, I will continue to call American bugbane
Cimicifuga until such time as The New York Times properly puts scientific
names in italic when the surrounding text is roman. That'll be the day!
Best, Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: <FRIELSTER@aol.com>
To: <Gardenwriters@topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL]: The name game


> Graham,
> agreed on all points.  I may have come down a little too strongly on the
side
> of commerce in my earlier email.
> I'm very much committed to accurate nomenclature and to educating the
> industry and the gardener. However, I'm leery of turning a catalog into a
> sort of treasure hunt.  The infamous Chrysanthemum changes and subsequent
> partial retreat are still a mess, as most people either (a) hadn't made
the
> change in the first place, (b) made the change but haven't gone back to
> Chrysanthemum, or (c) changed too many species back to Chrysanthemum.
> Can't please everyone.  But we have to try, don't we?
>
> JF
>
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