'Twas the Dawn of Selection (fwd)

[NELSON at CLS.BIOL.SC.EDU]

Well, what about "marrows"? As in Cucurbitaceae.

John Nelson, USCH


> Thanx for the compliment. The second line should be "yarrow," i.e.
> Achillaea millifolia.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 15:44:49 -0600
> From: Doug Yanega <dyanega at denr1.igis.uiuc.edu>
> To: josephl at CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
> Subject: 'Twas the Dawn of Selection
>
> GREAT parody! But I have a question:
>
> >They formed mushrooms and butterflies, bushes and sparrows,
> >Seaweeds and dinosaurs, bushes and sparrows.
>
> Are those lines both actually supposed to end the same way???
> Peace,
>
> Doug Yanega       Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr.
> Champaign, IL 61820 USA      phone (217) 244-6817, fax (217) 333-4949
>  affiliate, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Entomology
>   "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
>         is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82
>