Gaillardia (for French botanist Gail-
lard de Marentonneau) - Gay-lard-
ee-uh
Galanthus (milk-flower)-Gal-anth-us:
Snowdrop.
Galax (milky, as to white flowers) -
Gay-lax
Galega (milk, as to a probable old me-
dicinal use) - Gal-lee-guh: Goats-
rue (G officinlis).
Galium (bedstraw )-Gay-lee-um: Bed-
straw.
Galtonia (for anthropologist Sir Fran-
cis Gallon) - Gol-foh-nee-uh- Giant
summer-hyacinth (G. candicans).
Gamolepis (joined-scales, as to bract
formation)-Gam-mol-ep-iss
Garcinia (for French botanist Laurent
Garcin) - Gar-sm-ee-uh: Mango-
steen
Gardenia (for American botanist Alex-
ander Garden) - Gar-deen-ee-uh.
Garrya (for Michael Garry of the Hud-
son's Bay Co.) - Gar-ee-uh: Silk-
tassel-bush.
Gasteria (like a stomach, as to swollen
flower base)-Gas-teer-ee-uh.
Gaultheria (for Canadian botanist and
physician M. Gaulthier) - Gol-teer-
ee-uh: One of several species, G. pro-
cumbens, is called Wintergreen,
Checkerberry, Teaberry.
Gaya (for botanical writer Jacques
Gay)-Gay-uh: Lace-bark.
Gaylussacia (for French chemist 1. L.
Gay-Lussac) - Gay-lus-say-see-uh:
Huckleberry.
Gazania (for Theodorus of Gaza, medi-
eval Greek scholar) - Gaz-zay-nee-
uh.
Gelsemium - Jel-seem-ee-um: Carolina
yellow jessamine.
Genista (broom)-Jen-mst-uh: Broom.
Gentiana (for Gentius, an Illynan king,
said to have discovered its tonic
qualities) - Jen-tee-ay-nuh: Gen-
tian
Geranium (crane, for resemblance of
fruit to a crane's bill)-Jer-ray-nee-
um. Cranesbill
Gerbera-Jerb-er-uh- See below
Gerberia (for German naturalist Trau-
gott Gerber or Gerberus)-Jer-beer-
ee-uh: Transvaal Daisy or Barberton
Daisy (G. Jamesom)
Geum-Jee-um. Avens
Gilia (for Spanish botanist Philip Gil)
-Jill-ee-uh.
Gillenia (for German botanist Arnold
Gill)-Jil-leen-ee-uh.
Ginkgo - Ghing-koh: Maidenhair-tree.
Gladiolus (little sword, as to leaves)-
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Glad-ee-oh-lus: (Same in both singular
and plural). Glaucidium (denoting a
rather bluish
green)-Glaw-sid-ee-um. Gleditsia
(for German botanist J. D
Gleditsch)-Gled-fits-ee-uh: Honey-
locust Globularia (for globular flower-
heads)
-Glob-yew-lay-ree-uh Gloriosa
(glorious) -Gloh-ree-oh-suh:
Glory-lily Glottiphyllum (tongue-like-
leaf)-Glot-
if-fill-um. Glycine (sweet, as to taste
of root)-
Gliss-in-ee: Soybean (G. max).
Glycyrrhiza (sweet-root) - Gliss-ihr-
rye-zuh Licorice Glyptostrobus
(marked-cone, as to seed
cones)-Glip-toh-stroh-bus. Gmelina
(for German botanist S. G.
Gmelin) -Mell-in-uh. Gnaphalium
(wool -of - the - teasel, for
woolly leaves)-Naf-/ay-lee-um.
Godetia (for Swiss botanist Charles H.
Godet) -Goh-dee-shee-uh
Gomphrena (from a classical name for
a kind of amaranth) - Gom-free-
nuh Gongora (for Cordovan bishop
Antonio
Caballero y Gongora) - Gon-goh-
ruh.
Goodia (after Peter Good, its discov-
erer)-Good-ee-uh. Goodyera (for
English botanist John
Goody er)-Good-yer-un. Gordonia
(for English nurseryman
James Gordon)-Gor-doh-nee-uh.
Grammatophyllum (letter-leaf, as to
spotted flowers) - Gram-at-oh-fill-
um Graptopetalum (engraved-petal,
as to
color-dotting)-Grap-toh-pet-al-um.
Graptophyllum (written-leaf, as to col-
ored foliage)-Giap-toh-fill-um.
Grevillea (for botanical patron Charles
F. Greville)-Grev-vill-ee-uh.
Grewia (for English plant anatomist
Nehemiah Grew)-Grew-ee-uh.
Greyia (for administrator Sir George
Grey) -G ray-ee-uh. Griselinia (for
Venetian botanist Gnse-
lini)-Gris-el-lin-ee-uh. Guaiacum
- Gwye-ak-um: Lignum-
vitae. Gunnera (for Norwegian
naturalist J.
E. Gunnerus)-Gun-er-uh.
Guzmania (for Spanish naturalist A.
Guzman) -Guz-man-ee-uh
Gymnocalycium (naked-calyx, as to
ovarian scales) - Jim-noh-kal-
liss-
ee-um.
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