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Title: American journal of pharmacy
Year: 1829 (1820s)
Authors: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
Subjects: Pharmacy
Publisher: Philadelphia
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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here are good philological reasons against thelatter suggestions. Wood brushes away the whole line of argu-ment, and suggests the derivation from a Greek word signifyinghilarity, from the well-known use of the plant by the Indians, buteven here the orthography—two Is being employed in the name—is against the conjecture. It is most reasonable that the genus wasnamed Gillenia in honor of some good cultivator of plants at Mar-burg. The city was, in Moenchs time, a famous seat of learning,with reputable schools and colleges; while the gardens of itscitizens were filled with rare plants from many countries. The Spircca trifoliata was, in the language of Sims, a plantmuch coveted, increasing but little, propagated with difficulty, andliable to be lost unless placed in soil and situation highly favorableto it. It is scarce in the gardens about London. This was in1796. Moench was writing a MetJiedus or arranged account of theplants found in the fields and gardens of Marburg—and there is
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Fig. I.—Lower portion of a flowering stem of gillenia trifoliata, from aplant growing on the Wissahickon, near Philadelphia. 504 Gilltnia Tnfoluita. jai.. jour. i-ham- OctuUrr. VIM. little difficulty in believing that he would name the plant in honorof the one in whose garden the rare opportunity of examining itwas afforded. May we not say Gillenia—in honor of a grower ofrare plants at Marburg in Austria? In recent times trouble has arisen in regard to the names ofplants from the fact that species, supposed to be distinct and namedas such, have been referred subsequently to one species. In thesecases the rule proposed was that the oldest name should prevail.But in many cases the newer name has widely prevailed before theolder was noted. The recent effort has been to insist on the oldername, and a new rule proposed that a name once used should notbe employed again. As it is expressed * once a synonym, always asynon)m. The current is not running smoothly in this direction,and our pl

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