Frankenia

Translingual mul Etymology From mul Frankenius ia, coined by Linnaeus to honor Johan Franck (1590–1661), a former Swedish botanist at the University of Uppsala. Sometimes mistakenly further Latinized as Francenia. Proper noun 1 f genus family Frankeniaceae sea heaths 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 630: Francenia, sea-heath, or sea-chickweed, a genus of the hexandria monogynia claſs. The calix is tunnel ſhaped, and divided into five ſegments; the petals are five; the ſtigma has ſix diviſions; and the capſule conſiſts of one cell, with three valves. There are three ſpecies, two of them natives of Britain, viz. the lævis, or ſmooth ſea-heath; and the pulverulenta, or broad leaved ſea-heath. Hypernyms genus ; Frankeniaceae family family Hyponyms genus Frankenia laevis species type species; for others see 1 References 1 1 1 mul Caryophyllales order plants