The following year, early in 1808, Richard Salisbury published a description of the first "Brodiaea" species in "The Paradisus Londinensis", naming it "Hookera coronaria", the genus name being in honour of the illustrator William Hooker. Shortly afterwards, Smith named a moss genus "Hookeria", and in April 1808, he read to the Linnean Society of London a formal description of a new genus, based on the same species as Salisbury's "Hookera coronaria", naming the genus "Brodiaea" in honour of Scottish botanist James Brodie. Formal publication did not occur, however, until Smith's presentation went to print in 1810. George Boulger, writing in the "Dictionary of National Biography", says that Smith's actions were deliberately intended to deprive Salisbury of credit for the genus.