Re: Which back issues??

From: Jack Honeycutt jhoneycutt at uswest.net> on 2000.06.13 at 02:46:47(4749) At 02:50 PM 6/12/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Jack > >Sorry to cause you confusion when I hoped to help! The fog in my little pea brain is starting to lift! It is a struggle to get up to speed with a group of plants that I am not familiar with. Thanks for all your good information *and* putting up with my many remedial questions. >Rhaphidophora (restricted to the old world tropics and defined by having >fruits with many small starchy seeds) >Monstera >(restricted to the tropical Americas and defined by having fruits with few, >largeish, starch-less seeds. Ah. OK Got it. >There are couple of books you should try to get. One is The Genera of >Araceae by Mayo, Bogner & Boyce published in 1997. Probably my next purchase (well, after next pay day).... >Another book you should >try to get is Deni Bown's Aroids - Plants of the Arum family, which is due >to be published in a much expanded second edition in September this year. Found that and have it on order. >Naming plants to species is often quite a time consuming job and is hampered >by most of the literature for the task being published for the scientific >market in the form of revisions of genera. However, most of the folks >writing the species-level revisons of Araceae are subscribers to aroid-l >(Tom Croat, Wilbert Hetterscheid, myself) and often a request on the site >will illicit replies from these folks. Thanks again for the info. jack +More >Hope this helps some > >Pete > >ps You should also dent your credit card and order the entire back run of >Aroideana - it's an incredible source of info.

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