英语词汇lobelia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Lobelia. Linnaeus named over a thousand plants, including hundreds that have come to be household words. Many of the botanist’s namings honored people. Indeed, by labeling species as well as genera, the Swedish botanist sometimes commended two people with the same plant. This is the case with Lobelia dormanna, the water lobelia.

Linnaeus named the plant’s family Lobeliaceae and its ge- nus Lobelia after Matthias de l’Obel, or Lobel (1538–1616), a distinguished Flemish botanist and physician who lived a cen- tury before Linnaeus. But he called L. dortmanna, one of its three hundred species, after an obscure druggest named Dort- mann whom he met while studying in Holland. Nothing is known about Dortmann, but Lobel had been both physician and botanist to England’s learned King James I. A native of Lille, Lobel tried to classify plants according to their leaf for- mations long before Linnaeus and wrote several of the earliest botanical books. The Lobeliaceae family commemorating him contains 24 genera and over 700 species, some of which are trees and shrubs, but its Lobelia genus consists of about 300 species of annual or perennial herbs widely grown for their mainly blue, red, yellow, or white flowers. The species Lobelia inflata was used by American Indians like tobacco, has a tobacco-like odor, and was also employed as the base for a pop- ular home remedy, though it is considered poisonous in quan- tity. Another species, Lobelia syphilitica, the blue syphilis, was used by the Indians to treat syphilis; it was even introduced into Europe centuries ago for this purpose.

词汇	lobelia
词源	Lobelia. Linnaeus named over a thousand plants, including hundreds that have come to be household words. Many of the botanist’s namings honored people. Indeed, by labeling species as well as genera, the Swedish botanist sometimes commended two people with the same plant. This is the case with Lobelia dormanna, the water lobelia. Linnaeus named the plant’s family Lobeliaceae and its ge- nus Lobelia after Matthias de l’Obel, or Lobel (1538–1616), a distinguished Flemish botanist and physician who lived a cen- tury before Linnaeus. But he called L. dortmanna, one of its three hundred species, after an obscure druggest named Dort- mann whom he met while studying in Holland. Nothing is known about Dortmann, but Lobel had been both physician and botanist to England’s learned King James I. A native of Lille, Lobel tried to classify plants according to their leaf for- mations long before Linnaeus and wrote several of the earliest botanical books. The Lobeliaceae family commemorating him contains 24 genera and over 700 species, some of which are trees and shrubs, but its Lobelia genus consists of about 300 species of annual or perennial herbs widely grown for their mainly blue, red, yellow, or white flowers. The species Lobelia inflata was used by American Indians like tobacco, has a tobacco-like odor, and was also employed as the base for a pop- ular home remedy, though it is considered poisonous in quan- tity. Another species, Lobelia syphilitica, the blue syphilis, was used by the Indians to treat syphilis; it was even introduced into Europe centuries ago for this purpose.
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