Re: REF: Pronounce Species Correctly

Anner   --  If I didn't know you to be the charming, guileless person that
you are, I could be persuaded that what you are proposing here is a devilish
scheme to keep Robert, Neil, Edmondas, Ellen and me occupied and unable to
make trouble (except for each other) for several weeks.  Nonetheless, I
wouldn't be surprised if one of our number --  not me, I assure you --
hasn't already taken up the challenge and is working away at it as I speak.

Not being loath to undertake a lesser task, however, I offer you, instead,
some commentary on why several of the binomials you have listed are named as
they are:

attica -- similar to tectorum, but grows beneath the roof

subbiflora -- same as attica, but two floors down

mandschurica -- a variety, candidans mandschurica, will sit quietly in your
garden for years, then suddenly burst into bloom

acutiloba -- smelling this one can give you a very bad case of iloba

barnumae -- a real circus of color

bismarkiana  --  though plantings may be dispersed, this one will
consolidate and take over your garden

gatesii --  to be planted at the entrance to your garden, of course

hookeriana  --  (ahem, well . . .)

wattii -- in sufficient quantity, this becomes known as voltii

minutoaurea  -- a little bull goes a long way

odaesanensis -- comes from Odessa, but ran into a spelling problem

bulleyana -- crowds out other flowers

innominata -- Linnaeus lost the tag; very common; most of us have some

nelsonii  -- British; has only one branch

crocea -- Kasparek reject, who, looking at it, said "That's a croc."

ludwigii -- first cousin to hartwegii

foetidissima -- a real stinker

bungei -- you can't get rid of this one; it just keeps coming back

farreri -- Italian, misspelled

lazica  --  has to be staked

aitchisonii -- named after the well-known railroad town  (Aitchison, Topeka
and the Sa-anta Fe)

hartwegii -- first cousin to ludwigii

galactica -- honoring the Battlestar of the same name

stenophylla -- a nice present for your secretary

stocksii -- you buy this one when bondsii is too pricey

zaprjagajewii -- named for its discoverer, a Cossack who fell into a clump
of it when his horse missed a steppe

No doubt others among us have explanations for some of the rest.  --  Griff



----- Original Message -----
From: <ChatOWhitehall@aol.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:24 PM
Subject: [iris] REF: Pronounce Species Correctly


> Greetings.
>
> I have a suggestion, which is also a favor to request.
>
> I think it would be enormously interesting, and useful, if those who have
> studied Latin, or botanical Latin, intensively, which would certainly
include
> Robert, Griff, Neil, Edmondas, and Ellen, would post here the correct
> pronunciation of some Iris species.
>
> Notwithstanding the example of pseudacorus, I would not expect this to be
a
> controversial undertaking; certainly that is not my intent. I simply think
that
> after all that has been said, some list members might like to know what
the
> "correct" classical pronunciations of the Latin names are.
>
> I will contribute a list of the specific epthets of selected Iris
binomials,
> grouped by Series as published in 'A Guide to Species Irises', from
Cambridge
> University Press. This list is not intended to be comprehensive; add to it
if
> you like.
>
> So, can we get some enlightenment here?
>
> Cordially, Anner Whitehead etc. etc.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> albertii; albicans; aphylla; attica; clausii; furcata; garmanica;
croatica;
> trojana; imbricata; kashmiriana; kochii; lutescens; pallida; cengialtii;
> pseudopumila; pumila; purpureaobractea; reichenbachii; schachtii;
suaveolens;
> subbiflora; timofejewii; variegata
>
> bloudowii; humilis; mandschurica; potaninii
>
> acutiloba; atrofusca; atropupurea; aurantiaca; barnumae; bismarkiana;
> cedrettii; damascena; gatesii; iberica; lortetii; mairiae; meda;
nigricans; paradoxa;
> sari; sofarana; sprengeri; susiana
>
> afghanica; hoogiana; korolkowii; kushkensis; stolonifera
>
> falcifolia; longiscapa
>
> cuniculiformis; dolicosiphon; goniocarpa; hookeriana; kemaonensis;
> narcissiflora; sikkimensis; tigridia;
>
> confusa; cristata; formosana; gracilipes; japonica; lacustris; milesii;
> tectorum; tenuis; wattii
>
> henryi, minutoaurea; odaesanensis; rossii; speculatrix
>
> verna
>
> ruthenica; uniflora
>
> setosa; tridentata
>
> bulleyana; chrysographes; clarkei; delavayi; dykesii; forestii;
> phragmitetorum; sanguinea; sibirica; typhifolia; wilsonii
>
> bracteata; chrysophylla; douglasiana; fernaldii; hartwegii; innominata;
> macrosiphon; munzii; purdyi; tenax; tennuisimma; thompsonii
>
> missouriensis
>
> ensata; laevigata; pseudacorus; versicolor; virginica
>
> brevicaulis; fulva; giganticaerulea; hexagona; nelsonii
>
> prismatica
>
> crocea; graminea; kerneriana; lilacina; ludwigii; monnieri; orientalis;
> pontica; pseudonotha; sitenesii; spuria; xanthospuria
>
> foetidissima
>
> anguifuga; bungei; cathayensis; farreri; loczyi; polysticta; regelii;
> songarica; tenuifolia; ventricosa
>
> lactea
>
> grant-duffii; aschersonii
>
> unguicularis; lazica
>
> barbatula; colettii; decora
>
> boissieri; filifolia; juncea; latifolia; tingitana; xiphium
>
> aitchisonii; albomarginata; aucheri; baldschuanica; bucharica; carterorem;
> caucasica; cycloglossa; doabensis; edomensis; fosteriana; galactica;
> hymenospatha; kuschakewiczii; magnifica; maracandica; microglossa;
narbutii; naryensis;
> nicolai; nusairiensis; orchioides; palaestina; parvula; persica;
planifolia;
> pseudocaucasica; regis-uzziae; rosenbachiana; stenophylla; stocksii;
> tubergeniana;
> warleyensis; wendelboi; willmottiana; zaprjagajewii
>
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