ENSURING THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANTS
Jane McGary (Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:05:15 PST)
Boyce wrote
Spreadsheets or databases eliminate the issues of indecipherable
handwriting - a characteristic to which I am particularly prone :)
Especially when I was doing the cataloging for the NARGS seed
exchange, I noticed many instances of misnamed species that probably
arose from what philologists term "scribal errors." A lot of those
were probably on labels. It took some good guessing to sort some of them out.
Jane McGary
Portland, Oregon, USA