Abstract
In 1755 John Hill wrote a pungent preface to his Family Herbal. In it he accused botanists of wasting their time on trivia to the neglect of practical considerations. He asserted that more new and strange words had been introduced into botany than into all the Sciences and that Linnaeus had been so guilty in this particular line of misdemeanor that a good scholar would not able to understand three lines together in his best Writings. He declared that he was going to write a book in which each plant would be called by one name only in English and one in Latin and those the most familiar, no matter what Caspar, or John Bauhine, or Linnaeus call them.
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