In 1756 Colden discovered the plant which is now known as "Triadenum virginicum" and proposed a name after the prominent botanist Garden. In her manuscript she wrote that this plant was without an Order under the Linnaean system. In her description Colden wrote, " The three chives "only" in each bundle, and the three oval-shap'd bodies on the seat of the flower, together with the seat to which the seeds adhere, distinguish this plant from the "hypericums"; and I think, not only make it a different "genus", but likewise makes an order which Linnaeus has not. " However, the name was not allowed because an English botanist named John Ellis had already named the Cape jasmine as "Gardenia jasminoides", and was entitled to its use because of the conventions of botanical nomenclature.