Re: ID requested on scarlet lawn weed

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From: Richard Wright
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:00

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Not being a botanist or taxonomist I never know how pressing some of
these namings are.

My chief amateur's hate is the introduction of the rule that a family
must have a genus with the name that produces the name of the family -
Hence long entrenched family names Umbilliferae and Brassicaceae were
thrown out of the window. I suppose somebody made a botanical
reputation out of engineering these changes. Confusion was created in
the name of tidiness. 

I grew up in southern England, where one could learn to identify just
about every flowering plant. Not so here in Oz, I have found.

Richard

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:32:07 -0000, "Peter"
<kealties@peterbhurst.f2s.com> wrote:

>Hi Richard
>
>I am sure that you are right as you have the plant there in front 
>of you.  Even though scientific names are meant to be standard, 
>they are often changed, much to the confusion of this aging, 
>amateur botanist.
>
>What a great website you quote.  I have done several trips to 
>Australia, having family in Sydney and friends in Melbourne and 
>Perth.  One of my principle pleasures there is your amazing 
>flora.  I would have been immensely helped by a resource such as 
>this.  I will bookmark it for future visits.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Peter

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Subject: Re: ID requested on scarlet lawn weed
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