Not sure if this from Trend Micro is relevant or not - but just in case! Phil L Phishing Scam Targets Yahoo! Photos In the past week, much attention has been...
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Richard Collingridge
richard_coll...
Dec 7, 2005 9:38 am
... I think those are proper leaves, grown only on juvenile shoots. I think the adult spines have other spines growing out of them, which makes them stems. ...
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Malcolm Storey
bioimages2000
Dec 7, 2005 11:45 am
Hi Richard, My understanding was the leaves are trefoil and each leaflet becomes a spine. You can see the stages of the transformation in seedlings. But the...
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Richard Collingridge
richard_coll...
Dec 7, 2005 1:21 pm
... becomes a ... Hi - Had a good look at a mature gorse shoot earlier. I think you're right -- the leaves are spines, and the shoots are spines too. In your...
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Phil Luke
boxlodge
Dec 8, 2005 6:10 pm
Take a look at http://www.native-tree-shop.com/News.aspx?aid=2 - do any of the tree scientific names look a bit odd, or is it just a quirk of my computer? Phil...
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Eva Ekeblad
evaekeblad
Dec 8, 2005 6:43 pm
Umm... Looks like someone, at some stage, converted an html list of the scientific names to paragraphs by doing a find-replace of "li" for "p" - catching the...
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Wildlife & Countrysid...
wildliferanger
Dec 12, 2005 2:08 pm
Hi All, Apologies for cross-posting, but thought you might be interested in saving trees. If you sign up to BT's paper-free billing, you will save on paper and...
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Vicki Harley
pengarth1
Dec 12, 2005 11:20 pm
In my job as a copy-editor I have been working on a manuscript on drugs derived from plants. In a section on the 1920s, it mentions "clover, Melitotus...
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Richard Collingridge
richard_coll...
Dec 13, 2005 1:16 pm
... Mellot? ... Vicky - (Stray typos in your message: you've put Melitotus not Melilotus, and Mellot not Melilot.) I found several web pages giving the English...
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Martin Rand
rand_martin
Dec 13, 2005 6:13 pm
Vicki, In the 7th edition of Bentham and Hooker Handbook of the British Flora (1924) Melilotus altissima Thuill. was given as Melilotus officinalis Willd.,...
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Doug
zwergmowe
Dec 13, 2005 7:34 pm
On 10 Dec I was surprised to find Vicia cracca still nicely in flower. Is this date so surprising? Doug [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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philophyte
Dec 14, 2005 6:37 pm
... I was told as a wee lad that trees were all feminine in Latin, regardless of declension, and this seems to work in the botanical names I know. Don't know...
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Rodney Burton
r_m_burton
Dec 14, 2005 7:13 pm
The name Melilotus goes back to ancient Greek where its grammatical gender was masculine, as was that of Lotus. It seems possible to me that the feminine...
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Phil Luke
boxlodge
Dec 15, 2005 5:04 pm
At a talk last evening on various aspects of the lily family, Allium ursinum was one subject. The speaker was aware that the specific epithet is a reference...
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Dukeclnd7@...
duke63vc
Dec 15, 2005 6:26 pm
Hi Phil Locally referred to as Bears garlic on account of its strong tates. Also believe some connection with old anglo saxon name for it. Places named after...
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Malcolm Storey
bioimages2000
Dec 16, 2005 11:32 am
Rodney, The current official (as per BSBI) source for English names is Dony et al’s English Names of Wild Flowers. This would be where Stace got it from. ...
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Briankbyrne@...
briankbyrne
Dec 16, 2005 5:05 pm
Phil, H. Gilbert-Carter in his 'Glossary of the British Flora' writes that the combination Allium ursinum occurs in Pliny. As for the English name, Geoffrey...
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Phil Luke
boxlodge
Dec 16, 2005 6:17 pm
Brian Many thanks for the references. Perhaps Pliny, or someone earlier, knew that bears are fond of Ramsons; maybe that's why they do what they are reputed...
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alan white
nivramh
Dec 17, 2005 11:16 am
Could not resist sending these off to you all Note: forwarded message attached. ___________________________________________________________ How much mail...
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Stuart
cipeen
Dec 17, 2005 2:23 pm
... flower. Is this date so surprising? I have no Vicia cracca left, but plenty of Vicia sepium. I also photographed Ranunculus ficaria in bud this week: ...
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British Marine Life S...
glaucus25
Dec 18, 2005 12:51 pm
Trees of the British Isles Study of the trees and their associated flora and fauna, identification, uses and abuses, woodland, forests, conservation, toponymy,...
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British Marine Life S...
glaucus25
Dec 19, 2005 12:48 am
Hello, Tree Mallow Lavatera arborea The Observer published a small article on Sunday 18 December 2005 saying that the Tree Mallow (species not identified) was...
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glaucus25
Dec 19, 2005 1:03 am
One of Britain's best-known seabirds, the puffin, is being wiped out by invading fast-growing alien plant species because of global warming. Scientists have...
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Rodney Burton
r_m_burton
Dec 19, 2005 12:12 pm
The tree mallow has 'not been confined to a few outcrops in UK' for a very long time, but if it is spreading northwards in western Scotland that just might be...
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Phil Luke
boxlodge
Dec 21, 2005 12:06 pm
Interesting! http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8493 Phil L [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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British Marine Life S...
glaucus25
Dec 22, 2005 2:59 pm
Hello, I seem to have lost the link for the web page of the British Plant Gall Society. Does anybody have it please? Cheers Andy Horton glaucus@... ...
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Wildlife & Countrysid...
wildliferanger
Jan 4, 2006 11:40 am
Hi All, I'm currently rebuilding the Wildlife & Countryside Services website and was hoping that some of you might be willing to give me some feedback on the...
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Wildlife & Countrysid...
wildliferanger
Jan 4, 2006 2:32 pm
Take a look at this article...... Regards, Martin. Martin Bailey, Ecologist Wildlife & Countryside Services Llanfair Talhaiarn, Abergele, LL22 8TG Tel/fax:...
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tche_ebooks
Jan 12, 2006 11:16 pm
International Group of Exchange of Medical and Biological Articles 2 The International Group of Exchange of Medical and Biological Articles, version 2,...
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Steve Preddy
stevepreddy
Jan 13, 2006 11:17 am
Hi UKBotany has been free of spam for a long period of time thanks to the hard work of our "spambuster" Tina Teearu. Tina would like to move on from this to do...
