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Degeneriaceae
What a great name for a family of plants.
< a href="http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/newgate/cronang.htm">Found while trying to find out if the ipomoeaceae are related to the solanaceae. Still working on it.
On another front, we went to the back of Cowell and found: 2 small and 1 large shrimp mushroom (the nice fellow's gone to bed so I can't confirm that these are the only russulas we think are worth eating) and 1 funny-looking little king bolete. It had a tiny head and a big trunk, but sometimes boletes do that.
The forget-me-nots are about as long as my hand. It sprinkled on Wednesday but other than that it hasn't rained in a long time, but the ground is damp.
I hate desktop wallpaper in general, but I found the astronomy picture of the day and I couldn't find a feed I could stick in lj like I do the botany picture of the day (you can get it too at the bpod lj profile. What you can get, and I did, is a program that downloads the astronomy picture of the day to your computer as wallpaper. The first picture wasn't all that inspiring, but I just got a new one that sends chills down my spine. The one bug I see is that setting the preferences to show the explanation (that is, an icon you can click for information) doesn't seem to stick at all, and you have to keep going into the program to reset it and get the explanation.
What a great name for a family of plants.
< a href="http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/newgate/cronang.htm">Found while trying to find out if the ipomoeaceae are related to the solanaceae. Still working on it.
On another front, we went to the back of Cowell and found: 2 small and 1 large shrimp mushroom (the nice fellow's gone to bed so I can't confirm that these are the only russulas we think are worth eating) and 1 funny-looking little king bolete. It had a tiny head and a big trunk, but sometimes boletes do that.
The forget-me-nots are about as long as my hand. It sprinkled on Wednesday but other than that it hasn't rained in a long time, but the ground is damp.
I hate desktop wallpaper in general, but I found the astronomy picture of the day and I couldn't find a feed I could stick in lj like I do the botany picture of the day (you can get it too at the bpod lj profile. What you can get, and I did, is a program that downloads the astronomy picture of the day to your computer as wallpaper. The first picture wasn't all that inspiring, but I just got a new one that sends chills down my spine. The one bug I see is that setting the preferences to show the explanation (that is, an icon you can click for information) doesn't seem to stick at all, and you have to keep going into the program to reset it and get the explanation.