Genera within a family

Family: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

PRIMULACEAE (La)
Primrose Family (Le)

primus, = the first, first (properly only when three or more are referred to); first in rank or station, chief, principal, most excellent, eminent, distinguished, noble;
-ula, = diminutive.
primulus, = the first (ante-class); primulum, = at first, first (ante-class).
(originally in the name primula veris, ‘little firstling of spring’, applied by 12th century to the cowslip)
(ld, BL, Ox)

ANAGALLIS (G)
Pimpernel (Le)

anagelao, = to laugh aloud.
(Perhaps from anagelao, the Greek name for the 'pimpernel'; thought to have removed sadness)
(LS, Le)

LYSIMACHIA (G)

lysis, = a loosing, setting free, release;
mache, = a quarrel, strife.
lysimachos, = ending strife.
Tradition relates that when Lysimachus, King of Thrace in Asia Minor (306-281 BCE), was chased by a bull he waved a plant of this genus to pacify the animal, thus releasing himself from strife.
Lysimachos (360-281BC)**.

(LS, I10, Ch)