oh the plants

the joy of working in an herbarium full of smelly plants is, on occasion i come across words that make me giggle to myself. of course everyone else that works in the herbarium actually likes plants and they know why the heck the plants have the name they do. but i don't. so i giggle about the names such as:

Wawawaiensis or almost as good, Happolopapis.

i have really seen these names. this is the part of working at the herbarium i like. the part where i see wierd words then i go get the plants and realize they are actually sage brush. why can't they just call them sage brush? but you know whatevs.

just try to pronounce this please

wa-wa-wa-IENSIS! or hap-polo-pap-IS!