11-01-2017, 12:04 AM
Actually I'd also like to try myself in mnemonics. 
One may note that roots of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. look like claws. Now, trientalis europaea has been considered as belonging to Lysimachia species. Actually Pritzel lists it as "Lysimachia trientalis". Lysimachia is called after Lysimachus. Among other glorious deeds, if one believes to what is told by Plutarch and (Russian) Wikipedia - and medieval people probably did the former as we do the latter, - Lysimachus was known by that he fought a lion when Alexander the Great forced the lion on him. And that lion's claws left characteristic scars on him.
I have Plutarch's "Bioi paralleloi" in two volumes (Russian translation) and can check that tomorrow.
The question, of course, is whether Lysimachia was already known under that name in XV century.
One may note that roots of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. look like claws. Now, trientalis europaea has been considered as belonging to Lysimachia species. Actually Pritzel lists it as "Lysimachia trientalis". Lysimachia is called after Lysimachus. Among other glorious deeds, if one believes to what is told by Plutarch and (Russian) Wikipedia - and medieval people probably did the former as we do the latter, - Lysimachus was known by that he fought a lion when Alexander the Great forced the lion on him. And that lion's claws left characteristic scars on him.
I have Plutarch's "Bioi paralleloi" in two volumes (Russian translation) and can check that tomorrow.
The question, of course, is whether Lysimachia was already known under that name in XV century.