Question

Plz help me someone iv been working hard and i can't get this i have not much time to finish this but im doing a projecta nd im looking for greek Myhological allusions in plant names like the narcasis flower or animal names like arachnids get their names form arachne.

I found these just by going though the first section of this site.

http://www.calflora.net/botanicalnames/index2.html

Achillea: named for Achilles, who supposedly used plants of the genus to staunch the wounds of his soldiers at the siege of Troy (ref. genus Achillea

Achlys: after a minor Greek goddess, the Goddess of hidden places or obscurity, perhaps alluding to the woodland habitat

Adonis: Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names says: " The flower is supposed to have sprung from the blood of Adonis who was gored to death by a wild boar. He was beloved of Aphrodite

ajacis: after Ajax, the Greek hero who committed suicide during the siege of Troy