Subject: A plant by any other name

From: [email-masked] (Ian Staples)
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 09:16:53 GMT

There has recently been some confusion over plant names in _New
Scientist_.  One John Etherington of Llanhowell, Pembrokeshire,
offered a clarification by pointing out that both _C. ruber_ (red
valarian) and _V. officinalis_ (common valarian) belong to the 
family Valerianaceae.

He concluded "Might it be relevant that red valarian is also called
'drunken sailor', presumably from its habit of clinging to walls?"

						(_NS_ 9 Dec 95: 58)

Cheers,  Ian S.

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