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Re: Smallest Aroids - mini-Acorus - name changes

From: "James W. Waddick" <jim-jim at swbell.net> on 1997.10.27 at 20:56:09(1521)
>On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, James W. Waddick wrote:
>
>> Dear Carlo, Eduardo et all,
+More
>> If Eduardo can include Pistia, you might as well consider Lemna,
>> Wolfia etc - the smallest of ALL flowering plants. Once included among
>> Araceae, now mostly separated.
>Dear Jim,
> I am sorry to notice you that Acorus isn't an aroid anymore. Michael
>Grayum has removed it some time ago, and it has now its own family
>(Acoraceeae).
Dear Eduardo;
Curses, foiled by yet another name change!!
Old fashioned, Jim W.
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