On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:40:48AM -0800, Adolf Ceska wrote:
> In my salad days, I had a well going snail-mail correspondence with one
> esteemed botanist. We discussed several issues of plant taxonomy and I
> gained a lot from this relationship. Until the day, when my pen pal wrote
> me, "This villain is calling this plant Polygonum lapathifolium instead of -
> what is correct - Bistorta lapathifolia." I sat down, and without thinking
> about consequences, I wrote back, "Dear Prof. ..., in my humble opinion, I
> think that the plants don't care, how they are called." I never heard from
> him again.
My speech. And the plants are certainly not organized in
classes, orders, families, tribes, genera,
sections, series, species, varieties and forms.
It is auxiliary terms for describing the complicated
structure of relationship between plants.
Comical are all achievments of molecular interpreters
trying to scientifically prove existence of new
families which are merely former subfamilies in reality.
Not speaking about compilers of accepted names.
Josef Niederle
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