Re: Latin and Common Names

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• From: p*@shadow.net (Dewey Fisk)
• Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:38:57 +0100
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Please do not take this attitude.  Use this list as a learning experience.

Go to the following URL....

>http://www.booknotes.com/ledlie/minicats/newbk96.htm<

Go to the above URL and scroll down to #123..  Harris & Harris... Plant
Identification Terminology, an Illustrated Glossary....  $17.95

This is an excellent book..  about 200 pages of the very best information
on Latin names and their definitions...  This list can be a learning
experience of propagation, human behavior and, in this case, Latin for
Botany...  If you are really interested in the why and what of Latin, try
"William T. Stearn...  Botanical Latin"  published by David and Charles...
it is not for beginners, however....

But, Please....  use this list as a learning experience in more than one area...
Dewey

>I know why the group is using the Latin names...but I am new and now I
>have to sit here with a stack of books near-by to figure out what type
>of plant you are talking about.  The common sure would help me too.  Or
>maybe I just need to find a real "beginners" group.


Dewey E. Fisk, Plant Nut
THE PHILODENDRON PHREAQUE

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