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51_84 Cambridge, England so that Willmot retreated to his seat in some confusion; Sprague retreated, too, but seemed as usual more absorbed by the perplexities ever in his mind. Merrill turned back to his station as presiding officer with a distinctly sheepish grin like a small boy caught unawares in the jam jar. - This morning I went to hear A.J. Eames, Cornell, on the anatomy of the gynoecium. Sepal traces are like leaves. Petals, the traces mostly like those of stamens, and so in many cases the petals may represent sterile stamens. In Magnoliaceae and some other families the stamen traces are 3. Probably this is the primitive number. In most families the stamen traces are 1. In carpels the traces are 1, 3, 5, 7; three being the primitive number. Tetracentra = the most primitive Angiosperm. He was about to talk on cohesion in Labiatae when he was stopped by time. Dr. Agnes Arber presided. |
51_85 Aug. 20, 1930 Today the nomenclature session resumed. I myself was a bit late, since my paper on Chaparral and the role of fire had to be presented to the Plant Geography and Taxonomy section. I did not pick up the thread very readily when I came in to Taxonomy. They were evidently voting by voice on the noncontroversial articles and passing those which would require debate. But the article on Latin diagnoses precipitated a lot of debate. There was some strong expressions in favor of doing away with Latin, especially by Barnhart, J.H., of the New York Botanical Garden. Dr. Briquet's reply was that if the Congress did not stick to Latin that it would necessarily lead to diagnoses in any language, - such as Russian, Chinese, Japanese. It seemed that at the Vienna Congress the Russian deleg- [delegate] |
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