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Probably for James W. Edmond (died 1815).**
(Ch)
(Ch)
(h)eleios, = of or in the marsh;
charis, = graceful, pleasing, agreeable, lovely, pretty, elegant.
(LS)
charis, = graceful, pleasing, agreeable, lovely, pretty, elegant.
(LS)
From Eleusis, a Greek city where the goddess of grain, Demeter (Ceres in Latin), was worshipped.
Triptolemus, to whom Ceres had imparted for all mankind valuable grains and the knowledge of agriculture, built a magnificent temple to Ceres at Eleusis, and established the worship of the goddess, under the name of the Eusinian mysteries, which, in their splendour and solemnity of their observance, surpassed all other religious celebrations among the Greeks.
(Le, Bu)
Triptolemus, to whom Ceres had imparted for all mankind valuable grains and the knowledge of agriculture, built a magnificent temple to Ceres at Eleusis, and established the worship of the goddess, under the name of the Eusinian mysteries, which, in their splendour and solemnity of their observance, surpassed all other religious celebrations among the Greeks.
(Le, Bu)
elytron, = a cover, covering. case, sheath;
pappos, = a grandfather; an old man.
pappus, = an old man; a grandfather; the wooly hairy seed of certain plants.
pappos, = the downy or feathery appendage on many fruits, especially Compositae, as thistles, dandilions etc., hence extended to the reduced calyx of Compositae generally, whether downy, bristly, scaly, toothed or membranous.
(apical tuft of hair or bristles or homologous appendages on fruits of Compositae; on a seed, such a tuft is termed 'coma')
(LS, ld, Ox, BL)
pappos, = a grandfather; an old man.
pappus, = an old man; a grandfather; the wooly hairy seed of certain plants.
pappos, = the downy or feathery appendage on many fruits, especially Compositae, as thistles, dandilions etc., hence extended to the reduced calyx of Compositae generally, whether downy, bristly, scaly, toothed or membranous.
(apical tuft of hair or bristles or homologous appendages on fruits of Compositae; on a seed, such a tuft is termed 'coma')
(LS, ld, Ox, BL)
Origin uncertain, possibly derived from Rumex, a name used for culinary Sorrel, Dock, used by Pliny.
(Le)
(Le)
ereike, = ereice, = this name was used for heaths by Theophrastus** (372-287 B.C.) and Pliny the Elder (A.D. 23-79); derived from ericein (Greek), pound – (referring to the supposed property of some species to break gall stones).
‘ereike’, = to break, because an infusion of certain heath plants was supposed to break up kidney stones. Name is assigned to Carl Linnaeus, who derived the modern system of naming plants known as binomial nomenclature. In his work ‘Species Plantarum’, published in 1753 he described 23 Erica species, of which 12 were from the Cape of Good Hope.
(M, SK)
‘ereike’, = to break, because an infusion of certain heath plants was supposed to break up kidney stones. Name is assigned to Carl Linnaeus, who derived the modern system of naming plants known as binomial nomenclature. In his work ‘Species Plantarum’, published in 1753 he described 23 Erica species, of which 12 were from the Cape of Good Hope.
(M, SK)
eu-, = well;
(good, well developed, normal, true)
phorbe, = pasture, food, fodder, forage; fuel.
The name honours, Euphorbus Musa, physician to King Juba, of Numidia (Mauritania) c. 47 B.C., was interested in these cactus-like plants supposedly for medicine – of which many are poisonous.
(LS, BL, M, K3)
(good, well developed, normal, true)
phorbe, = pasture, food, fodder, forage; fuel.
The name honours, Euphorbus Musa, physician to King Juba, of Numidia (Mauritania) c. 47 B.C., was interested in these cactus-like plants supposedly for medicine – of which many are poisonous.
(LS, BL, M, K3)