Tuesday, October 18, 2011

I was reading a description of flora (asteraceae only) in New Mexico. I ran across the description of a plant in the genus that i study. I though found it amusing that this plant was the only one that the author decided to describe as " although very ugly, it ...." !?!? wtf since when does you opinion find itself into a descriptive published document. 
The author wrote this under "supplemental information" where a bit of history about the plant is outlined. It seems that the author did not talk to much time to investigate the history of this genus/species and decides to throw some opinions in. Shame shame. Maybe he thought no one would read it, maybe he though it was funny, either way the fact that he decided to publish this indicates amateurism and ignorance. 

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