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Taxonomic treatments for Artemisia over the past 50 years range from maintaining a single, large genus of over 500 species [ 32 33 34 35 36 37 ] to the recognition of six to eight genera from within its taxonomic boundaries [ 2 38 39 ] . Artemisia of antiquity was divided into three genera ( Artemisia, Absinthium, and Abrotanum ) by Tournefort [ 40 ] . However, the concept of a more inclusive genus was resurrected by Linnaeus [ 41 ] , hereinafter, referred to as Artemisia s.l . Besser [ 42 ] and de Candolle [ 43 ] recognized four sections within Artemisia s.l.
(Traditional explanations include European encounters with Indians wearing red paint, or else the creative labeling system of 18 th -century Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus.)
Calluna , although many variant garden forms are known, consists of only the one species, Calluna vulgaris . Erica (the name Linnaeus gave originally to both heath and heather), however, comprises several hundred species, nearly all found in the Cape of South Africa, with fewer than a dozen found in the rest of the world.
Although orca can mean a `dice box' (or a `little barrel'), it also means a `kind of whale, the great killer,' perhaps derived from Orcus . Surely it was in this sense that Linnaeus used it.
Many animals were--and are--wonderfully well-named by taxonomists, following in Linnaeus' footsteps: this book is the key to their wisdom, and often their humor.