A Swedish physician and botanist whose Species Plantarum (1753) gave every plant a two-part Latin name, the system still used, and set the starting point from which botanical names are counted.
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- BladderwrackFucus vesiculosus, a brown seaweed of rocky shores, buoyed by paired air bladders.
- ChokecherryPrunus virginiana, the chokecherry of North America: a tall shrub or small tree of forest
- CinchonaThe bark of Cinchona trees of the Andes.
- Deadly nightshadeAtropa belladonna, of the nightshade family.
- Fly agaricThe red, white-spotted toadstool of fairy tales, of birch and pine woods.
- GinsengPanax quinquefolius, the ginseng of the North American woods, and its Asian kin Panax gins
- Goji berryThe scarlet berry of Lycium barbarum and Lycium chinense, thin-leaved shrubs of the nights
- MilkweedAsclepias syriaca, the stout milkweed of roadsides, fields, and waste places everywhere in
- RadishGarden radish, Raphanus sativus (now classed by Kew as Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativu
