ENSURING THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANTS

Jane McGary janemcgary@earthlink.net
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




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