It has become general to associate these two famous botanist explorers. Professor Gray states that he named the genus Lemmonia in honor of both of them. A California paper says:

" Prof. Lemmon is well known among botanists and naturalists, and has spent many years in the pursuit of his avocation. He found the home of the common potato away up in the mountain fastnesses of Arizona, and nearly paid for his curiosity by being hunted by the Apaches. The Professor's life has been a checkered one, embracing service in the army during the rebellion, and a term in the awful prison-pen at Anderson-ville, Georgia, where he endured privations from which he has never fully recovered. He and his worthy wife count their friends by the hundred all up and down the coast, and the writer is proud to be considered among the number".