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### Author
Monti, Gaetano Lorenzo (1712-1797), Italian botanist; professor of botany and director (1760-1792) of the botanical garden at Bologna.
**Abbreviated name**: *Monti* \[standard form in IPNI: *Monti*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BOLO|BOLO]].
#### Note
Not to be confused with his father, Giuseppe Monti (1682-1760), also professor of botany and director of the Bologna botanical garden, whose publications are all pre-linnaean. Lozenzo Monti (*fl*. 1817) pharmacist and botanist at Verona, author of a *Dictionario botanico Veronese* (1817) (*Copy*: FI), is not known to be a relation of the Bologna Monti's.
#### Bibliography and biography
BL 2: 415; Dryander 3: 243, 258; DTS 1: 199 HU 520; Kew 4: 40; Lasègue p. 341; PR 6397 (ed. 1: 7125); Rehder 5: 585; Saccardo 1: 112, 2: 74, cronol. p. xxvii; TL-1/887.
- Hulth, J. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(1): 87, 88, 90, 228. 1916.
- Stafleu, F. A., Intr. A. L. Jussieu, Gen. pl. reprint 1964, p. xlii.
#### Eponymy
*Montia* Linnaeus (1753), *Montia* P. Miller (1754), *Montiastrum* (A. Gray) Rydberg (1918) and *Montiopsis* O. Kuntze (1898) commemorate Guiseppe Monti (1682-1760), Italian botanist, director of the botanic garden in Bologna. *Montira* Aublet (1775) commemorates a Monsieur de Monti, French planter and colonial officer in Guyana, who supported Aublet's botanical exploration of the colony.
### Publications
##### n.6261. Indices botanici et materiae medicae
**Title**
*Indices botanici et materiae medicae* quibus plantarum genera hactenus instituta: simplicium quoque tam vulgarium, quam exoticarum nomina, & facultates summatim recensitur ... Bononiae \[Bologna\] (Ex typographia Laelii a Vulpe) 1753. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Ind. bot. mat. med.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1753, before 1 Mai (p. 160: 29 Jan 1753), p. \[i\*-viii\*\], i-xx, \[xxi-xxviii\], 1-160, 2 maps. *Copies*: FI, MO, USDA; IDC 6080. – Reviewed by GGA on 15 Nov 1753, which, in the absence of other data, does not constitute sufficient proof of publication after 1 Mai. Imprimatur dated 29 Jan 1753. The indices are a new feature added \[on p. 129-160\] to the second edition (edited by G. L. Monti) of Giuseppe Monti, *Exoticorum simplicium medicamentorum varii indices* (ed. 1, Bologna 1724, Qu.).