In article , (Rodger Whitlock) writes:
| On 8 Sep 2003 07:58:24 GMT, Nick Maclaren wrote:
|
| As any competent horticulturalist or botanist knows, the arrogant
| and offensive[*] attempt of a a UK-based caucus of botanists to
| define a standard set of names and insist on their use is both
| practically and scientifically nonsense.
|
| Have you ever seen the American attempt at the same thing, a
| lovingly printed tome "Standardized Plant Names"? Ca. 1940.

No, but I have heard of it - perhaps from you when this lunacy
last came up! As far as I recall, (a) American = USA and perhaps
Canada and (b) some of the names were worse than Alpine Bartsia.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.