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Eponymy of New Mexico Grass Names Eponymy of New Mexico Grass Names Item Type Article Authors Allred, Kelly W. Publisher University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) Journal Desert Plants Rights Copyright © Arizona Board of Regents. The University of Arizona. Download date 05/10/2021 10:01:08 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/554314 AllredEponymy 3 lections in the Las Vegas area, as well as Mexico, Central Eponymy of New Mexico GrassAmerica, and France. Names Muhlenbergia arsenei A.S. Hitchc. Baker, Charles Fuller (1872 -1927) Botanist, entomologist, teacher, and administrator at the Kelly W. Allred Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station in Fort Collins; collected in Colorado, northern New Mexico (Aztec and Range Science Herbarium Chama in 1899), California, Cuba, and the Philippines; many of his Colorado and New Mexico novelties were published Department of Animal & Range Sciences by E.L. Greene in Plantae Bakerianae. New Mexico State University Agropyron bakeri E. Nels. [= Elymus bakeri (E.Nels.) Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 Löve] Barrelieri, Jacque (1606 -1673) French medical botanist and author of a work on the plants Approximately 400 species of grasses occur in New Mexicoof France, Spain, and Italy. (Roalson & Allred 1995). More than 75 of them bear a Eragrostis barrelieri Daveau personal name, that of an explorer, a benefactor, a promi- nent scientist or naturalist, a friend, or the collector. InBeckmann, Johann (1739 -1811) great measure, the history of botany in New Mexico and German botanist and author of a botanical lexicon. the American West is told by the stories of these people Beckmannia honored in the names of the state's grasses. The early years of exploration of an expanding United States are revealedBélanger, Charles Paulus (1805 -1881) in the stories of Bigelow, Fendler, James, Parry, and Wright.French botanist who was very active in the Old World but The European origin of much of our botanical science, is never collected in the New; the grass Hilaria belangeri reflected in the lives of Boutelou, Lindheimer, Reverchon,was inadvertently named after Bélanger by Steudel, instead Roemer, and Schaffner. The scientist -patrons whose careers of after Jean Louis Berlandier who collected the plant in greatly benefited from the gathering of exotic western Mexico. grasses, come to mind in Gray, Grisebach, Hackel, Hooker, Anthephora belangeri Steudel [= Hilaria belangeri and Torrey. And the names Scribner, Stebbins, Swallen, (Steud.) Nash] and Vasey are familiar to us from their prodigious contri- butions to the study of grass systematics. Oddly, only twoBertero, Carlo Giuseppe (1789 -1831) residents of New Mexico are found on our list, O.B. Metcalfe Italian botanist and explorer who traveled to the West Indies and H. Wayne Springfield. Indeed, many of our honoreesand settled in Chile; lost at sea on a return voyage from never set foot inside New Mexico, their association with Tahiti. the Land of Enchantment being limited to the grasses bear- Tragus berteronianus Schult. ing their names. [As an aside, it is interesting to note that no scientific names of grasses celebrate the preeminent bota-Bigelow, John Milton (1804 -1878) nist of the state, E.O. Wooton (1865- 1945), despite his co- Botanist and U.S. Army surgeon; Surgeon and Botanist for lossal contributions to western American botany. He is re- the U.S.- Mexican Boundary Survey (1850 -1853) and then membered, however, by the vernacular "Wooton's joined Lieutenant A.W. Whipple's Pacific Railroad Expe- threeawn" for Aristida pansa Woot. & Standl., and by thedition (1853- 1855); made numerous collections east of Al- scientific names of at least twenty non -grass plants (Allred buquerque in autumn 1853, some from the Sandia Moun- 1990).] tains; described the vegetation in his Report on the botany of the expedition... (1856). The persons commemorated by New Mexico grass eponyms Eremochloe bigelovii S. Watson [= Blepharidachne are listed below in alphabetical order by surname, followed bigelovii (S. Wats.) Hackel] by a brief biographical sketch that emphasizes their contri- Poa bigelovii Vasey & Scribn. bution to agrostology and botany. The eponyms are listed by basionym, with current nomenclature indicated in brack- Bladh, Peter Johan (1746 -1816) ets following an equal sign. Finnish collector -naturalist employed by Swedish East In- dian Company; collected mainly in the Far East around Hong Arsène, Frére (or Brother) Gustave (also Gerfroy) [secularKong and Canton. name: Arsene Gustave Joseph Brouard] (1867-1938) Andropogon bladhii Retzius [= Bothriochloa bladhii French clergyman- botanist and professor at Sacred Heart (Retz.) S.T. Blake] Training College at Las Vegas, New Mexico; extensive col- Desert Plants 1999 Bloomer, Hirum G. (1821 -1874) central New Mexico (1900). Pioneer botanist of California. Festuca earlei Rydberg Stipa bloomeri Bolander Elliott, Stephen (1771 -1830) Boutelou, Claudio (1774 -1842) and Estéban (1776 -1813) Pioneer botanist and legislator of South Carolina. Spanish agriculturalists and gardeners; Claudio was pro- Agrostis elliottiana Schult. fessor of agriculture at Seville. Bouteloua Emersley, J.D. ( ? - ?) Botanical collector in the Southwest during the last century. Brown, Joseph R. ( ? - ?) Muhlenbergia emersleyi Vasey Landowner on whose west Texas ranch (Altuda Mountain Ranch) Aristida brownii was discovered; honored by BartonFendler, Augustus (1813 -1883) Warnock for his range conservation practices. German -born botanist who came to the United States in 1836; Aristida brownii Warnock [= Aristida purpurea hired as a botanical collector by Asa Gray at Harvard, and Nutt. forma brownii (Warnock) Allred & Valdes -R.] joined J.W. Abert on the military reconnaissance to Santa Fe in 1846; explored the environs of Santa Fe April -Au- Bush, Benjamin Franklin (1858 -1937) gust 1847, collecting most of his plants on the west mesas Postmaster at Independence, Missouri, and amateur botanist. and along Santa Fe Creek, never venturing farther than 12 Paspalum bushii Nash [= Paspalum setaceum miles from the town on account of Indian hostilities; the Michx. var. stramineum (Nash) Banks] account of his collections in New Mexico were published in Gray's well -known Plantae Fendlerianae Novi - Canby, William Marriott (1831 -1904) Mexicanae (1849); about 125 new species of plants were Amateur botanist, banker, and merchant of Wilmington,collected by Fendler in New Mexico; also collected plants Delaware; accompanied Henry Villard's Northern Trans- for Gray in western United States, Venezuela, Panama, and continental Survey; collected throughout much of the UnitedTrinidad. States and Canada in his lifetime, amassing a personal her- Aristida fendleriana Steud. [= Aristida purpurea barium of 30,000 specimens. Nutt. var. fendleriana (Steud.) Vasey] Glyceria canbyi Scribn. [ =Poa secunda Presl] Eragrostis fendleriana Steud. [ =Poa fendleriana (Steud.) Vasey] Cotta, Heinrich (1763 -1844) German plant physiologist. Gerard, John (1545 -1612) Cottea English surgeon and pharmacist who produced the Herball or Generali Historie of Plantes (1597), which was part Danthoine, Étienne ( ?- 1815 ?) translation and part adaptation of a work by the Belgian Nineteenth century French botanist who studied the grassesRembert Dodoens. of the Marseilles region. Andropogon gerardii Vitman Danthonia Aira danthonioides Trin. [= Deschampsia Gray, Asa (1810 -1888) danthonioides (Trin.) Munro] Preeminent American botanist of his time, and perhaps to this time; professor of Natural History at Harvard Univer- Deschamps, Louis Auguste (1766 -1842) sity and a spirited rival of colleague Louis Agassiz; author Surgeon -naturalist on the sailing vessel La Recherche,of FloraofNorth America (with John Torrey), Manualof which was sent out in 1828 by the French government inBotanyofthe Northern United States (1848, five editions), search of the famous explorer Jean -François de Galaup de ElementsofBotany, Introduction to Structural and Sys- La Pérouse, who had disappeared in the late 1700s. His ship's tematic Botany, How Plants Grow, Synoptical Floraof wreckage was finally found on Vanikora of the Solomon Is-North America (uncompleted), and technical papers describ- lands. ing hundreds of new species; benefited from network of Deschampsia professional collectors and amateur naturalists from all over North America; vigorous proponent of Darwinism and Desvaux, Nicaise Auguste (1784 -1856) champion of phytogeographical affinities of northeastern French botanist at Angers. United States and eastern temperate Asia; as far as is known, \Enneapogon desvauxii Beauv. never visited New Mexico. Poa grayana Vasey [ =Poa arctica R. Br. subsp. Earle, Franklin Sumner (1856 -1929) grayana (Vasey) A. & D. Löve & Kapoor] Agronomist and mycologist associated with the U.S. De- partment of Agriculture and New York Botanical Garden;Grisebach, August Heinrich Rudolf (1814 -1879) extensive collections in southern Colorado (1898) and inGerman botanist at Göttingen and director of the botanic AllredEponymy 5 garden; author of Floraofthe British West Indian Islands prestigious works; a skilled artist who prepared the plates as (1864) and studies in Gentianaceae. well as the text for his monographs. Setaria grisebachii Fourn. Avena hookeri Scribn. [= Helictotrichon hookeri (Scribn.) Henr.] Hackel, Eduard (1850 -1926) Celebrated Austrian (Bohemian -born) agrostologist andImperato, Ferrante (1550 -1625) educator; contributed "Gramineae" to Die NaturlichenApothecary in Naples, Italy; author of a rare work on natu- Pflanzenfamilien (1887) and authored Monographia
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