[Taxacom] Herbarium sequence revisited

[Karl Magnacca]

It depends on how people are going to be using it.  There's no question 
that it's easier to find things if they're arranged alphabetically.  
This is especially the case for non-botanists, since orders of plants 
(unlike insects) are not obvious to the casual observer.  Thus, if 
people are working mostly within a family or in only a couple, then it 
makes more sense to put the families in alphabetical order and post the 
phylogeny on the wall.  However, if people are mostly doing work among 
larger groups - i.e., multiple related families at once - then it makes 
more sense to put them phylogenetically, or at least alphabetically by 
order, and post an alphabetic listing of families on the wall.

Karl
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Karl Magnacca
ESPM Dept., UC-Berkeley
137 Mulford Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720