Fwd: Hebejeebie

[Thomas Lammers]

At 12:36 PM 3/24/03 +1100, Jim Croft wrote:

>tell me today is April 1    ... please!
>If not, in CANB an act like this would be grounds for summary termination
>of employment and deportation...  to a country such as New Zealand...

I thought it was kind of clever.  I assume its a play on the genus Hebe,
which was traditionally assigned to Scrophulariaceae before molecular data
redrew the boundaries between that family and Plantaginaceae?
Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

e-mail:       lammers at uwosh.edu
phone:      920-424-1002
fax:           920-424-1101

Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and biogeography
of the Campanulaceae s. lat.

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