glossary for plant phylogeny

[Lincoln Stein]

Hi Peter,

This is quite nice.  I do not see the hierarchical nature of the 
glossary, however.  Could you explain?

I also see that there are entries that are nothing but synonyms to 
other terms.  Is there a plan to indicate which of several synonyms 
is the "preferred" one for use with the PO?

Lincoln

On Monday 09 February 2004 10:32 pm, Peter Stevens wrote:
> You should be able to get to the fl. pl. glossary as it stands at
> http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/glossary1.html
>
> It is designed to go in the vacant space at a flowering plants
> (subfamilies and above) website,
> http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/
>
> Obviously, there are far too many mistakes at present for me not to
> be other than embarrassed.  Note that the hierarchy for the terms
> is not yet worked out fully, but it will not be a strict hierarchy.
> That is, it may have terms at a particular hierachical level which
> is the one that people may be thinking of when they are actually
> using the site; there is also what may be the "true" hierarchical
> position.
>
> Note that the glossary is for the most part aimed at explicating
> text that deals with flowering plants and higher level
> relationships, so many more species level shape, texture and
> indumentum terms are either absent or only briefly dealt with (but
> we have Stearn's "Botanical Latin" for that); pollen terms are also
> particularly incomplete.
>
> P.
>
> Don't worry about typos, but do let me know of anything you
> consider more major, whether sins of omission or commission.  I
> will have a plant chemist check that side of things,  I have only
> just started with trial-by-use...

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Lincoln D. Stein
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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