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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.
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.
They went to its binomial Orcinus orca (Linnaeus 1758) to find a softer synonym and chose “Orca.”
In Scotland only two exist; Erica cinerea and Erica tetralix . In spite of Linnaeus' epithet (`ashy'), the former is called bell heather by all Scots and fine-leaved heath by many botanists; the latter is often called bell heather , too, by noncritical observers (since the flowers are very bell-like), but is known as the cross-leaved heath by those who pay more attention to the strongly two-ranked arrangement of the tiny needlelike leaves.
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.