On 16 Sep 08, at 21:50, info@auchgourishbotanicgarden.org wrote: > Perhaps the most inconvenient and inappropriate example of a botanical name > I have come across if that of Lilium pensylvanicum Ker-Gawler (1805) for a > plant Ker-Gawler mistakenly took to have come from North America because > Mark Catesby 'sent it' from there when in fact Catesby got it from a > Russian in Alaska, its homeland in fact being central & eastern Russia... To say nothing of a common garden & picnic pest in the Pac NW, the common yellowjacket, Vespula pennsylvanica, the distribution of which is entirely *west* of the Rocky Mountains. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island http://maps.google.ca/maps/…