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Re: Botanical & Common Names

Dear all list members on this thread,

I put in an infoseek search for "botanical names"
(infoseek.com)

Here are some sites to try:

www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/h/  then go to "common name index
or (same site) mgmh/comindx.html

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also    www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/uwmhg/botnames.html
(uwmhg is Univ of Washington medicinal herb garden)
this site states that it only represents about 10% of the herbs in the 
garden, the ones PHOTOGRAPHED!! Yep, pictures!

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www.ghg.net/beyer/tiplinks.htm This one gives a description of 
classification (genus species)
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www.prarienet.org/ag/garden/botrts.htm  (botrts is botanical roots)
This page has a long list of of word roots and what they mean, often 
describing the plant, for it's obvious physical properties, 
"woody" etc.

How I found this listserv in the first place was through prarienet, so 
perhaps one can go back there and search other links.

HOW I FOUND TODAY'S INFORMATION:  I originally decided to put in an 
infoseek search
for a botanical name (sapium sebiferum) and I got about 30 listings
where it was mentioned and many of the listing mentioned right in the
heading, that is, without any further page change, the common name or 
names. There were articles about any aspect of the tree from  oil tree
to pest plant to, with leads to other lists of oil plants--it goes on
and on.

I hope this will help everyone who has posted. It's time consuming to
do a search, so if someone does know the common name or part of the
 latin name, or even parts of each, post what you know...it would help 
someone do a search.
Even if you know part of the name especially the first part.

From my searching I can definitely state that the latin name is the 
way to go for an internet search, but that is just because that's where
I started. I also did an infoseek search with the common name, with 
probably more results to sift through, more of them off target. Both are 
worth a try.  I think this group
of course is good for hands-on information.
I have no commercial interest in infoseek.com, but I have found that
I get more related articles without any extraneous objectionable 
listings, so I always start with infoseek.

I would also like to mention to those who might be new, that if you
have a little trouble getting through on a long list of 
"www.blah./s//s/s/s/etc/blah/blah/blah"
whatever, you can go back and just delete some of the  end stuff before 
the slashes and you will likely get a home page plus one or two page 
changes. Then from there you can go forward on the links.

Best wishes to all
mihenry@ix.netcom.com
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