Query

[Thomas Lammers]

At 09:16 PM 11/10/00 +0200, you wrote:

>Does anybody know the popular English name of the millet-like graminacean
>Phalaris canariensis used as bird feed in Brazil ?

Appropriately enough, it is widely referred to as Canary-grass.




Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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