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J.E. Shields (Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:00:19 PST)

Hi all,

They are really the same name. The "V" sound is transliterated from Slavic
languages into German as "w" so if a German botanist gave the original
name, it would be spelled with a W, whereas if an Anglophone botanist named
the plant, it might be spelled with V. I think probably either spelling is
perfectly acceptable, but to be sure you would have to go back to the first
publication of the original description of that plant species.

Since that is not worth most of our bothering with, we should keep in mind
the duality of spelling the V sound in botanical names.

Lots of fun!

Jim Shields
Anglo-Germano-phone with a little Latin thrown in, but no Greek

At 09:45 AM 1/31/2004 -0500, you wrote:

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