In article ,
(Nick Maclaren) writes:
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| | http://www.sherriff-amenity.com/technical.asp?newsid=3
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| Not really. That Web page is talking crap about the name, whether or
| not it is sensible in other respects.

In case it is confusing, I am not damning that page for making that
error. The reason it is talking crap is that its author has been
taken in by the misinformation provided by the nomenclatural fanatics.
He is clearly unaware that the name mare's tail is a perfectly correct
one for Equisetum, and has probably been led into that delusion by
reading the sort of botany book that dogmatically excludes that fact.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.