When the rather puzzled visitor asked him if there was anything in which he was interested, he replied, "Yes, in my cyclopedia."
A list to the year 1873 is printed in the "Cyclopedia of American Literature."
I had looked it up in the cyclopedia and the Century dictionary.
The unscientific reader can go to the botanical manual or cyclopedia and under this name find the species described.
Almost any mediocre can compile a mass of information from the cyclopedia.