The botanical name of Comptonia was given it, after a bishop of London, of the last century, who was a great botanist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rural Hours] Reference

Sweet-fern Comptonia peregrina 203, 228, 276.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

Comptonia, 396.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium] Reference