Prescottia

Lindley ex Hooker ,Exot .Fl. 2 (1825) ,t. 115.

Cranichideae. I, II,III,IV. In honor of an outstanding English botanist of the last century ,JohnD. Prescott , Esq. (d. 1837), resident in Russia , who travelled widely in the northern regions of Asia . " I have given the name Prescotia after our friend ,John Prescott ,Esq., of St. Petersburg , who is known less by his acquantance with the more minute departments of botany than by the facilities which he affords to communication between men of science in this country and in Russia ."