Dear Jim; As you appreciate things being correct, should it not be.".can't even spell it correctly"? (grin) Cheers, John E. Bryan Jim McKenney wrote: > > Jim W. did something interesting in his most recent post. He spelled > Carthamus carthamnus. I'm not nit-picking here. What makes it interesting to > me is that when I composed my post where I mentioned Carthamus, I too > spelled it Carthamnus. But I noticed Angelo's spelling, and checked it > against a trusted reference - and learned something. > > Evidently this incorrect spelling is common in American publications. A > Google search on Carthamnus gives about 325 hits - some of them in places > where you would expect better. A Google search on Carthamus gives 179,000 > hits. IPNI of course does not find carthamnus. > > Jim McKenney > Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where I've discovered that > the d*@# crooks trying to pass the stuff off as saffron can't even spell it > right. > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php