Re: Papaver in Index

In a message dated 6/14/99 10:55:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mlaute@micron.net writes:

<< ust had occasion to look up
 opium poppy. It says "see Papaver somniferum(spo?)", but the index doesn't
 contain papaver. At least Papaver doesn't show up where it should.
 Information is alphabetically included in the text, however. But errors in
 the index are a pain in the keester.  Margaret L>>
Dear Margaret,
You need to take another look at the index, especially the title on the first 
page of the index.  It is only an index of common names, such as "poppy" and 
"opium poppy".  Papaver is the genus name and there is no index of genus 
names because they are all given in alphabetical order in the text.  In 
effect, then, the whole book is an index of scientific names!!  So if you 
look in the P's under Papaver, you will find Papaver somniferum.  I know 
because I jsut did it.

Bill Lee


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