Brachyscome Summer Flower Plant
The fact that Alexandre Cassini’s attention strayed briefly during his Latin lesson in about 1800 has caused a lot of bickering among botanists. Cassini originally described the botanical genus as Brachyscome (’brachys’ is Greek for short and ‘home’ stands for hair). According to Latin linguistic rules, the ’s’ should be dropped when the two words are joined. Cassini himself subsequently corrected his error and changed the name to Brachycome. Such a change, however, is not allowed according to the strict rules for the nomenclature of plants, so the linguistically incorrect name is the acknowledged one. Since everyone should be allowed to correct their mistakes, I have opted for Brachycome.
