Re: [APD] Not about plants....

["Andrew McLeod" <thefish at theabyssalplain_freeserve.co.uk>]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:55:24 -0500, JAMES PURCHASE <jppurchase at rogers_com>  
wrote:

> This may just be a twig in my side, but I also wish that posters use  
> standard names for plants. A recent thread referred to Vallisneria as  
> "vallis". "Vals" I can see, but "Vallis"??? I've long gotten over the  
> fact that many folks can't (or just won't) use scientific names, but I  
> don't see the need to coin any more common names for common plants.

What's wrong with Vallis? It's a fairly common common name :) and I don't  
think it's going to be misunderstood; just a simple contraction of  
Vallisneria as you say. The world would be a clearer place if the names we  
referred plants to always had that much of a connection to the scientific  
name (i.e. no more 'bamboo fern' or whatever)...

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Andrew McLeod
thefish at theabyssalplain_freeserve.co.uk

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