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Old 04-07-2010, 11:46 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
I've come across a file listing name changes in the 3rd edition of
Stace's New Flora of the British Isles, compared with some early list of
the British flora.

Highlights are


Oh, God! The mad taxonomists strike again :-(

Several of the changes look like simple reversals of earlier changes
by the same mad taxonomists.

I'm not sure what the protocol is with the ICBN but in my field, one doesn't
have to accept the changes.
Graham