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Re: The Curse of The Mummies

Hello.

I know this isn't likely to be relevant to the discussion but I think I
recall Robert Hegnauer's "Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen" (sic?) stating
that tropanes are also found in the Convolulaceae.

As to ancient travels, I ought to plug my own eyebrow-raising and highly
ecclectic "far beyond Chariots of the Gods" web-page here: I will
refrain...

But whatever the mode of ancient travel might have been, I sometimes
think the distribution of some characteristics of Lamiaceae plants seems
perhaps recent and artificial, the way many Western American Salvias
remind me more of Western European ones, more than Asian or Eastern
Ameria ones.

Not being a botanist I suppose I might be open to these imaginings that
Stachys cretica is *too much* like Clinopodium and Monarda, and things
of this nature.

I wish I were more familiar with any paleontobotany or... archaeobotany,
is it?...  about them, how old some Lamiaceae specie of North America
really are or aren't according to actual researches. 

Has anyone heard of such discussion anywhere, in any regard, on the
subject?

robert carl, mint-family collector
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