Horrible keys (fwd)

[Benjamin Martin Waggoner]

>Any nominees for the prize of Most Useless Key Couplet Ever Published?
>Here's my choice:
>
>Awns often deciduous ....
>Awns much more often deciduous ....

A botanist colleague of mine, Brian Speer, has provided this one, which I am
passing on to the greater Internet community:

Seed cone generally torn apart by animals ....
Seed cone not torn apart by animals ....

I rarely use keys and so have no couplets of my own to submit. Now if the
prize was for Most Inane Character in a Cladistic Analysis, it would be
another story. Any nominees in this category?

Ben Waggoner
Dept. of Integrative Biology
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
bmw at uclink2.berkeley.edu