Re: More on Nelson and Casper

From: Michael (chambe58@pilot.msu.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 18 1998 - 06:14:55 PDT


Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 09:14:55 -0400
From: Michael <chambe58@pilot.msu.edu>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg2085$foo@default>
Subject: Re: More on Nelson and Casper

At 05:02 AM 6/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
> Dear Jan, Juerg and Paul,
>
> >If these are to be considered as occasional albinos as they
> >occur in many violet plant species or if they should be
> >ranked as a forma is subject of individual viewpoints.
>
> So from this do I interpret that the 'rules' regarding
> naming such things are flexible enough to incorporate
> individual tastes?

No, I interpret the quoted athor was simply being polite. See T. F.
Stuessy's _Plant Taxonomy_ (1990) for guidelines on the delineation and
ranking of taxa.

Michael



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Tue Jan 02 2001 - 17:31:33 PST