Genera within a family
Iris, the daughter of Thaumas and Electra; on both her paternal and maternal sides she was descended from Oceanus. She was the personification of the rainbow and more generally of the relationship between heaven and earth, and between gods and men, which the rainbow represents. She was most often shown with wings, dressed in thin silk, which in sunlight had the colours of the rainbow.
So Iris, in her thousand-coloured mantle,
A rainbow through the sky, sought out the place
Under the cloud, the royal home of sleep
The Maiden Goddess
Entered, using her hands to part the dreams,
To clear her way, and the shining of her garments
Brightened the holy home, and the god saw her
And, her instruction given, Iris left him,
For all too soon the magic spell of slumber
Was stealing through her limbs, and she soared upward
Along the rainbow arch she had descended.
From Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Translation by Rolfe Humphries.)
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So Iris, in her thousand-coloured mantle,
A rainbow through the sky, sought out the place
Under the cloud, the royal home of sleep
The Maiden Goddess
Entered, using her hands to part the dreams,
To clear her way, and the shining of her garments
Brightened the holy home, and the god saw her
And, her instruction given, Iris left him,
For all too soon the magic spell of slumber
Was stealing through her limbs, and she soared upward
Along the rainbow arch she had descended.
From Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Translation by Rolfe Humphries.)
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For Jacob Bobart (1599-1680),** German botanist, the first Horti Praefectus (Superintendent, Head Gardener) of the Oxford Physic Garden.
His son, Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641-1719), succeeded his father as Horti Praefectus and became acting Professor of Botany at Oxford.
The genus Bobartia was published in 1753 by Linnaeus.
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His son, Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641-1719), succeeded his father as Horti Praefectus and became acting Professor of Botany at Oxford.
The genus Bobartia was published in 1753 by Linnaeus.
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For Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1584-1655).**
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Ixia is a name in Greek and Latin for a plant also called CHAMELION (also meaning an inconstant or variable person), a kind of thistle yielding an acrid resin.
ixia, = name of a plant noted for its variability of colour.
Ixion**, was a Thessalian king, who ruled over the Lapiths.
ixos, = mistletoe, viscum, birdlime.
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ixia, = name of a plant noted for its variability of colour.
Ixion**, was a Thessalian king, who ruled over the Lapiths.
ixos, = mistletoe, viscum, birdlime.
(viscous sap)
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For Philippe Picot de Lapeyrouse (Lapeirouse) Baron de Bazus (1744-1818).**
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Named after Dr Johan Moraeus,** and not Robert More, squire of Shrewsbury in the 18th century.
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Named by Philip Miller for his friend Sir William Watson (1715 - 1787).**
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