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In article , Brian
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Sorry to bring this up again but I'm sure there was a major mistake
made in identification

Or perhaps just accept that common names are not accurate as
different
people in different areas of the country apply them to different
things?

The botanical names can be pretty baffling too, unless you can be sure
that
everyone is using the same edition of the RHS encyclopaedia!

Maybe we should use the biographer's convention:

"Anemonella thalictroides (as she then was)..."

"Dorotheanthus bellidiformis (as she now is)"


Or refer to them as the cumbersome:

Dorotheanthus bellidiformis (nee Anemonella thalictroides)

:-)

.. except that the usual term is 'syn'

Ah, I knew that there must be a correct term for it. Thanks!

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Richard Sampson

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