[D-Scribes List] Linnaean Andromeda folklore rediscovered in the VM.

[Gerard Cheshire]

Happy New Year!
I am delighted to inform you that the source of Linnaeus' idea on using the mythology about Andromeda and Perseus to name a plant has been found in the latest Plant Page translation of MS408.

It had previously been thought that Linnaeus had indulged in a flight of wild imagination in naming the plant Andromeda, but we now know that he was simply referencing familiar medicinal folklore about the plant, which had since been lost to history. Now it has been rediscovered.

A paper is available to freely download from the LingBuzz website: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004971

Please feel free to disseminate the information to other scholars who may have an interest.
Kindest regards,
Gerard.

Dr. Gerard Cheshire.
Research Associate.
University of Bristol.
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