词汇 | clarkia |
词源 | Clarkia; Lewisia. Captain William Clark (1770–1838) is best known for his leadership with Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to find an overland route to the Pacific, their party being the first to cross the continent within the limits of the United States. But the Army officer and veter- an Indian fighter had an avid interest in natural history, de- scribing many plants in his journals covering the 1803–07 expedition. The showy Clarkia genus, native to California, was named in his honor. Clark, the youngest brother of the famous frontier military leader, George Rogers Clark, was appointed superintendent of Indian affairs when his expedition returned. Clark’s partner Captain Meriwether Lewis has Lewisia, a genus of 12 species of low-growing perennial flowers widely grown in the rock garden, named in his honor. Lewis, who had been Thomas Jefferson’s secretary, was appointed governor of the newly acquired Louisiana Territory after the expedition. He died suddenly in 1808, only 35 years old, his death shrouded in mystery. He had been traveling to Washington to prepare the expedition journals when he died alone in an inn near Nashville, Tennessee. Suicide, or more probably murder, has been suggested as the cause of his death. |
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