Species Ruttya fruticosa

For John Rutty (1697–1775), Irish physician, naturalist, entomologist, lichenologist, Quaker, and author. He studied medicine at Leiden University and practised as a physician in Dublin all his life. He took part in the activities of the Physico-Historical Society of Dublin, and directed the later activities of its botanical collector, Isaac Butler (f 1744). A prolific author, he wrote, inter alia, A History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland, from 1653–1751 (1751); an Essay towards a Natural History of the County of Dublin (in two volumes) (1772), which included its flora, fauna, geology and meteorology; and a treatise on drugs in Latin, Materia Medico, Antigua and Nova (1775), on which he worked for 40 years.