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chained_bear commented on the word siegesbeckia
"If it is true that one should not, as Mark Twain noted, make an enemy of a man who buys his ink in gallons, it is even truer that one should not provoke someone who is in the business of naming members of the plant kingdom. Linnaeus named a common weed--the siegesbeckia--for an unlucky critic, Johan Siegesbeck. ...
In happier examples than siegesbeckia, he named plants after famous contemporaries, hoping to entice Europe's most important botanists and zoologists into adopting his classification system."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 143
December 28, 2016