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SAMOLUS (La)
Brookweed, Water Pimpernel (Le)
Family: THEOPHRASTACEAE
samōlus, = (Pliny) said to be a Celtic word; - A plant said to have been used in ancient Druidical ceremonies; adopted (by Linnaeus) as the name of a genus of plants belonging to the order Primulaceae.
samolus, = a plant, supposed to be the Anemone pulsatilla, but according to Sprengel, the Samolus valerandi; or brook-weed.
(Ox, ld)
Samolus porosus (La)

Location: (F, K)
porus, = a passage, channel in the body;
(a pore)
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
(porous, pierced with small holes)
(ld, BL)

The 2774 species, 679 genera and 185 families of plants have been compiled from the lists of the plants:

  • of the Hermanus Botanical Society compiled by Lee Burman, for the plants in the Fernkloof Nature Reserve, and the Vogelgat Private Nature Reserve, Hermanus. Location: (F).
  • of Mark Johns, Director of the Kogelberg Reserve, and of COASTEC, environmental consultants, for the plants in the Kogelberg Nature Reserve, Betty’s Bay, in the WesternCape Province, South Africa. Location: (K).
  • of Christopher Whitehouse, for the plants in the Phillipskop Mountain Reserve, Stanford, in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Location: (P).

Suggestions for improvements to the lists and comments would be welcomed.