Re: While Stearn was open..........

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• To: lindsey@mallorn.com
• Subject: Re: While Stearn was open..........
• From: E* C* N* <t*@zetnet.co.uk>
• Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:04:51 -0600

The message <Pine.A32.3.91.980118190031.62031A-100000@mobot.mobot.org>
  from  Don Burns <burns@mobot.org> contains these words: 


> When I had Stearn off the shelf and open tonight, I tried to determine 
> meanings for the names Dracontium and Dracontioides. Stearn did not 
> have a solution for me, at least none that I could find. Both genera have 
> species with hooded spathes. Is this a clue? 

> Don


> Don Burns   Plantation, FL USA   Zone 10b



Both have as their roots the Greek draco - dragon. Dracontium is an 
ancient Greek plant name used for plant coloured like a serpent or 
dragon.  Dracontioides signals that the plants resembles Dracontium.

Charles Nelson




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