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Re: The name game, cont.

GWL: A bit more on the Cimicifuga--The entire botanical history of these
plants can be found in the Winter 1999 issue of "HerbalGram," The Journal of
the American Botanical Council and the Herb Research Foundation.
    In that issue, Anthony Young wrote: "Another reason for this taxonomic
error (which see), is relevant in 1999 because James A. Compton and
colleagues at the University of Reading, after extensive morphological and
DNA sequencing, have placed the entire genus--after 245 years--back into
Linnaeus's original concept of Actaea. . . .
"Since it will take another 100 years for the world botanical, herbal, and
medical literature to either accept or reject this name change, this paper
will continue to use the now obsolete name Cimicifuga racemose to refer to
the source plant of the herbal medicine known as "black cohosh."

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