> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 564](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355651) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6604-1) LSID 6604-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4302107) QID Q4302107 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### 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.).