Botanical Wednesday: That must have come from outer space

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Is the plant [Thalictrum lucidum] sufficiently distinct from T. flavum? It seems to me a daughter of time. - Carl Linnaeus [Planta, an satis distincta, a T. flavo? Videtur temporis filia. Species plantarum 1753] Hat-tip
Is the plant [Thalictrum lucidum] sufficiently distinct from T. flavum? It seems to me a daughter of time. [Planta, an satis distincta, a T. flavo? Videtur temporis filia. Species plantarum 1753] "The Daughter of Time" (Josephine Tey)" was also the title of a wonderful detective story. My new…
Since Linnaeus' birthday is tomorrow, my time, and I stuffed up the last post, here's another little treat for you: Carl Linnaeus (1707–1770, from 1761 Carl von Linné, or Carolus Linnaeus) There are many myths about Linnaeus that are due to the properties, real or imagined, of the system named…
It is the default opinion of those who accept evolution and those who deny it, that before Darwin, or Lamarck at any rate, everyone was a special creationist. Even Darwin implies in the Origin that if one is not a transformist with regards to species, one is a special creationist. Is it true, and…