Re: D. anglica- stabilised hybrid?

From: Michael (chambe58@pilot.msu.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 07 1998 - 16:57:14 PST


Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 19:57:14 -0500
From: Michael <chambe58@pilot.msu.edu>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg3878$foo@default>
Subject: Re: D. anglica- stabilised hybrid?

At 04:43 PM 12/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello all-
>
>I recently noticed in D'Amoto's book a short passage saying "there is
>evidence that D. anglica is in fact a fertile hybrid between D.
>rotundifolia and D. linearis." What is this "evidence"? How does it
>account for D. anglica's distribution (so far from D. linearis)?
>
>-Jonathan Mitchell

Jonathan, you got me curious so I looked up D. Xanglica (recognized as
such) in the Michigan Flora. It cites:

Wood, Carroll E. Jr. 1955. Evidence for hybrid origin of D. anglica.
Rhodora 57:105-130.

Michael



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