…but Mutis, in the letter I alluded to yesterday, didn’t perpetuate his error. After all, if you look at the bottom of the page, he clearly spelled the genus name with a “j.” Carolus Linnaeus either didn’t read that line, or didn’t think about it enough to alter the “correct” spelling of the binomial.
Have you read back over your field notes? Odds are they’re kind of hard to decipher. Nowadays, though, with all the different electronic notetaking options, perhaps this issue won’t come up as much…