john-smithia

Updated: June 2, 2025

Pride, beauty, and profit blossom together on one delicate green spike, and, it may be, even immortality. For the new miracle of nature may stand in need of a new specific name, and what so convenient as that of its discoverer? "John-smithia"! There have been worse names.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories