Taxonomy, art or science?

[Curtis Clark]

At 10:00 AM 3/29/96 -0700, Joe Laferriere wrote:
>    As an aside, when I was at Harvard, some coworkers and I were trying
>to come up with a name for a new Southeast Asian species of Carex. The
>only name we could think of not already in Index Kewensis was "C.
>nonsaskatchewanensis," meaning "not from Saskatchewan."

"nonmanitobensis" was already taken?

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