Re: Clitoria ternata and other matters
- To: "Medit-Plants"
- Subject: Re: Clitoria ternata and other matters
- From: W* G*
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:40:23 -0500
On 12/2/00 8:34 PM Moira Ryan wrote:
>You will have by now heard from others on the list that not only is the
>name of Clitoria intended to be explicit, it was coined by none other
>than the great Linneus himself. While the Victorians were markedly
>prudish their forbears in the eighteenth century certainly were not!
How prudish was Linnaeus I know not, but one could get unbuttoned
in dead languages just as easily then as now. Apudne te vel me?
William Glover
Nevis, West Indies
