Florentine Garden (1751) - Page 14

and ease, and because it does not at all change without necessity the old names proven by long use in pharmacies (1).

Indeed, that habit, or rather the license of refashioning the names of plants, has become so prevalent among Botanists that no small part of labor must necessarily be expended by plant-lovers in learning the homonyms of botanical subject matter. For we see it happens very often that the same Plant lies hidden, described under different names among one author and another, or that several, and indeed dissimilar, Plants are designated by the same name. Therefore, I have imposed upon myself the law of by no means embracing new names unless supreme necessity demands it, as happened with several Plants announced in this Catalog, which after <term>Tournefort</term> the most famous Botanists,

(1) In my enumeration of Plants, however, I have taken care to add the Linnaean referring to the system of Carl Linnaeus generic names as well, when they do not agree with the Tournefortian names or those which we have proposed, for the sake of those studying.