Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:36:59 -0000 From: "Steve Gordon." <steve.gordon@cableinet.co.uk> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3485$foo@default> Subject: New cp?
>
> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:19:45 -0800
> From: "Chris Teichreb" <cteichreb@hotmail.com>
> Hi everyone,
>
> In the local paper they run a column called "News of the Weird",
> essentially strange but true stories of the world around us.
> Anyways, this Sunday's issue had one brief mention of a new
> carnivorous plant discovered in Florida. I quote:
>
Hi Chris
I exchanged a few e-mail with a 'Maxine June' back in September regarding
this. The lady lives 8 miles from the Station. She sent some e-mail she
received from the botanist concerned, and a couple of URLs to information
he had put on the web, I did ask her at the time,
out of courtesy, if I could send the info' to this list; she then said
that she would join the list and send it herself! Thought she had actually
done this, and I'd missed it, but apparently not, also, I didn't think
much more about it as the species found was nothing new.
The recent re-interest prompted me to write to Archbold asking if they had
the URL to the botanists pages, but they don't; their reply is below.
Steve.
----- Original Message -----
To: "Steve Gordon." <steve.gordon@cableinet.co.uk>
Sent: 04 December 2000 14:57
> Hello Steve, sorry for the delay. I am buried in email after 2 days off
from
> work. I did receive your first message, and could not find an email
message
> I had about the web site that a Univ. Fla. botanist set up about the
> "Utricularia discovery." It is all much ado about almost nothing, and an
> example of press ballyhoo. The Utric. is a widespread species in SE US
that
> grows in seasonal ponds here in central florida'a sandy Lake Wales Ridge.
> when the ponds dry up the yellow flowers persist, with the rest of the
> plants parts in the sand, with the bladders perhaps still functional,
> gobbling up nematodes. The reporter wrote "underground carnivorous
plants,"
> and for about a week, we had calls from reporters all over the world.
> Eventually things calmed down, and I probably erased the email )(that i
> cannot find now).
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Fred E. Lohrer, Librarian/Information Manager
> Archbold Biological Station, P.O. Box 2057, Old State Road 8, Lake
> Placid, FL 33862 USA.
> Phone: 863-465-2571, FAX: 863-699-1927
>
> Email: flohrer@archbold-station.org
>
> internet: www.archbold-station.org
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