SSS 2012-01-10（在线收听）

 Jeanne Baret was passionate about science, so passionate that in the 1760s the French women disguised herself as a man. She hide her true identity to accompany her lover, Bach Philibert Commerson on the first friendship to sail around the world. At the time women weren't allowed on French navy vessels, and general sexes are prevented them from working in science. Commerson were sick fro part of the trip, and so  Baret accomplished much of the field work on her own. Together, the two collected more than 6000 specimens, more than 70 species have been named for Commerson. He intended to name a species after  Baret , but he died before he could do so. Then last year, biologist Eric Tebay heard an interview with Boray biographer Glynis Ridley on NPR. The story inspired Tebay to name a species of vine from South America in her honer, Solenon  Baretia. It's leaves are of variable shape, as were the leaves of the species Commerson had intended to name for Baret. As  Baretia 's flowers are violet, yellow or white, an exhausted species for an unusual woman, who made a mark on science without leaving her name, until now.