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Re: A Pet Peeve and Need Identification Help

on 6/23/03 5:09 PM, Diana Pederson at gardenwriter@ameritech.net wrote:

> YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!  I just may use this incident in some articles to educate
> my readers about the purpose of  those horrible "Latin names"!

If you do, I hope you will call them "scientific names," since more than a
third of extant plant names are derived from Greek rather than Latin
(although many of them have Latinized endings).

John MacGregor
South Pasadena, CA 91030
USDA zone 9   Sunset zones 21/23

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