>> I'm not a taxonomist, but I always thought Sarracenia and Bromeliads were
>> monocots, and that the Scrophularaceae were dicots. If so, the
>> classification system depicted here is inaccurate. Jan, anyone, pls
>> contradict me if I'm wrong.
>>
>Sarracenia are dicots, though every now and then I see three cotyledon
>on seedlings.
Yes. Sarraceniaceae are dicots, Bromeliaceae are monocots, Scrophulariaceae
are dicots.
>Page 86: The 'Helios' in Heliamphora means 'sun' in Greek, not 'marsh', as
>stated in the text.
Wait a minute! How does write BENTHAM (the inventor of the name of
_Heliamphora_, in Trans.Linn.Soc.18:432, 1840):
"... _Heliamphora nutans_, of which I have derived the generic name from
helos (spiritus asper, epsilon, lambda, omikron, sigma), a marsh, and
amphoreus (alpha, my, phi, omikron, rho, epsilon, ypsilon, sigma), a
pitcher."
Sorry to all Hellenists that I am not able to ASCII-code the Greek letters
more conveniently.
Kind regards
Jan