folk taxonomy

[Curtis Clark]

At 07:10 AM 11/10/96 -0700, JOSEPH E. LAFERRIERE wrote:
>Many plants
>in the SW US and NW Mexico bear the epithet "wislizeni"
>which I have to look up every time I have to spell it.

Being plants, their epithet is spelled "wislizenii", with the double "i". :-)

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