Superb is very small word :) Thanks for sharing... Pankaj
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Another very good one Dinesh ji > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:10 AM, ushadi Micromini < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> *GLASS Lily pictures made me go down the memory lane and this is what >> came up...* >> >> Your macro shots are so superb that the name glass lily seems very apt.., >> Dinesh... >> >> Glass lily is such an apt name for this ...reminds me of the translucent >> life like specimen in glass at two sites: >> the Corning museum in Corning NY and at the Harvard Museum of Natural >> history, in Boston Mass .... >> where the glass specimen flame worked and/or mouth blown by Blaschka >> father and son pair are on permanent exhibit... >> they look so very real... they look so real... Botanists going to USA >> may wish to visit at least one of them... >> a true pilgrimage.. >> >> Back to your specimen.. wonder who called them glass lily... >> may be some body who had seen these specimen in USA ? >> >> the URLs for the two glass flowers exhibits are: >> >> 1: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/on_exhibit.html >> here just scroll over to where it says glass flowers... >> >> 2: http://www.cmog.org/collection/exhibitions/botanical-wonders >> >> and a wonderful 7 min video of the history of this magical collection and >> their makes... >> >> http://www.cmog.org/collection/exhibitions/botanical-wonders >> enjoy ... >> >> i do whenever I chance upon it ... >> >> now I am not doing anybody a favor really this is for myself as much as >> for anybody else... >> writing it here makes it available to all ... including to me and mine >> ... >> >> Usha di >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> [image: ... Kas >>> skyline]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F8035015844%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzcDVdj__6tKTqSABRfvEGMun25Rew> >>> Kas >>> plateau ... about 4000 ft asl >>> ... one of the 39 World Heritage sites in the Western Ghats of India >>> ------------------------------ >>> 25 AUG 10 >>> * Iphigenia stellata * Blatt. ... (family: Colchicaceae) >>> ¿ *if-uh-juh-NY-uh* ? -- ¿ the genus named for ? daughter of >>> Clytemnestra and Agamemnon ... >>> Wiktionary<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wiktionary.org%2Fwiki%2FIphigenia&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzedO5IrJ4qc0vMizIINArkQFmEmkw>... >>> derivation not clear >>> *stell-AY-tuh* -- with spreading, star-like rays ... Dave's >>> Botanary<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fdavesgarden.com%2Fguides%2Fbotanary%2Fsearch.php%3Fsearch_text%3Dstellata&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzcELxeN2DKMVMN1MvxyJcv47i5GcQ> >>> >>> *commonly known as*: star grass >>> lily<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/english/star-grass-lily>• >>> *Marathi*: गुलाबी भुईचक्र gulabi >>> bhuichakra<https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-names/marathi/gulabi-bhu-icakra-gulabi-bhuichakra> >>> >>> *Endemic to*: Western Ghats (of India) >>> >>> *References*: Flowers of >>> India<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flowersofindia.net%2Fcatalog%2Fslides%2FStar%2520Grass%2520Lily.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzcFp5akirZKWhFOJWb1K8nIvraYog>• >>> *Further Flowers of Sahyadri* by Shrikant Ingalhalikar >>> [image: Iphigenia stellata >>> Blatt.]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F5871806835%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzcnoDgFVDy4XuQbusPaUzCqhUca1g> >>> >>> [image: Gulabi Bhuichakra (Marathi: गुलाबी >>> भुईचक्र)]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F5872363290%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzea9-EyR7GhD2cLpZM_oF6QjkWFSg> >>> [image: >>> Iphigenia stellata >>> Blatt.]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F5871809035%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdYP2Hx_SfM8YIVipK7mOWEhJlKHg> >>> [image: >>> Star Grass >>> Lily]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F5872103754%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdnXoGJz5dBcva1oA6Tx5QCvErSZw> >>> [image: >>> Iphigenia stellata >>> Blatt.]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F5872100806%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeHBkaZqrUDtQfY6eh3YzfAUJVF3g> >>> [image: >>> Iphigenia stellata >>> Blatt.]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F5872105460%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzcMdRfbZKSvWsMco3BPVfs5hqkr5Q> >>> [image: >>> Iphigenia stellata >>> Blatt.]<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fdinesh_valke%2F5871544279%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzep8FGl40OibrqisQuKHfORJFXDAw> >>> Regards. >>> Dinesh >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Usha di >> =========== >> >> > > > -- *********************************************************************** "Taxonomists getting Extinct and Species Data Deficient !!" 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