> Something I noticed about the growlists is that obvious misspellings
> of species were listed separately. ... Are you looking at ways of
> clobbering this problem?
I've extracted a list of all acceptable CP names from Jan's CP Worldlist.
I can then use this list with my spellcheck program to "clean up" growing
lists that people submit. I'll probably start mailing the edited lists
back to each submitter so that they can propagate the corrected versions
forward and save me future editing. Other than this hand editing,
the growlist is compiled completely by computer.
If anyone wants a copy of this CP spelling dictionary then email me.
> I'm still trying to find time to write some programs to
> convert my growlist (which is in the form of an ascii TEX file) to
> your format...
If you want to send me your TEX source, I can take a crack at it. It
should be possible to make an "awk" script to do the conversion.
> Wow. Big seeds! Incidentally, the fast bushfire you describe is what
> I mean by a cool burn. I usually make these fires (as described by
> Slack in his books) out of dried wild oats or other grasses to
> germinate the _Byblis_ taxa that require it.
Thomas Johnson (and others) have had success using gibberrelic acid to
help germination in Byblis gigantea. Maybe the same treatment might help
large Drosera seeds.
-- Rick