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Re: S.sp.'Masai'

At 10:29 PM 10/8/99 -0400, Juan Chahinian wrote:
>Dear Steve:
>
>It is obvious that Stu Cramer misidentified the misidentified plant in
>Morgenstern's book.


and if I may say so...and i would even if Mr Morgenstern were still alive,
he wrote in a way which implied he was more of a botanist than he really
was, which is to say, he was NOT a botanist at all. so his names have no
more validity than the nicknames i or another grower might stick on a plant
in order to have something by which to call it instead of, say "K2UX4,
model E".  and given the lack of agreement of how African  names might be
rendered in English, somehow the Masai, those wonderful, linear, tall
people...got misspelled and connected to a plant of some description.

but this has nothing to do with ANYTHING like naming plants. Stu Cramer
also just made up nicknames and so did and does Mr Eby, without any
pretense that these are names of any botanical standing. i must have a
dozen plants with pet names, and absolutely no idea what they are...except
i know what they are not.

and so.

Hermine
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