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Maggi Young:
How strange, Luit.... such technicalities are a mystery to me, I must say.    ???
I am pleased that you  have now been able to download the IRGs to read at leisure.

 I use Mozilla Firefox for my internet activity nowadays and only occasionally find any problems with it.

Lvandelft:

--- Quote from: Maggi Young on July 08, 2010, 10:05:23 PM ---
 I use Mozilla Firefox for my internet activity nowadays and only occasionally find any problems with it.

--- End quote ---
So I do Maggi! This is the first time I have a problem, I believe. Very strange!!

Lvandelft:
Dodecatheon is since very many years one of my favourite plants.
I possess an old picture from 1757 of Meadia.
Meadia has been the name for Dodecatheon only a few years. Called after Dr. Richard Mead, who was the personal physician of King George II

http://chestofbooks.com/gardening-horticulture/Cyclopedia-2/Dodecatheon.html

http://www.harrold.info/about/mead.html

So I shall continue to grow dodecatheons and primulas separately too!

Here a picture of Meadia:

Ragged Robin:
Finally I have had time to download and look at the latest issue and it really was compulsive reading from beginning to end.  The Alpine flower emblems and the countries and societies they are adopted by make a fascinating insight and the photography of the plants in situ is always so uplifting - thanks to Cliff, Ian Y, Ian McE, Cohan, Diane C, Geir, Franz H, Thomas H, Harry J, Todd & Kristi.

Alpine plants truly link us internationally and it is wonderful to see the how the features and characteristics of each plant change from country to country just as the people do.....through all the diversity we have common ground that binds us, expressed so well by Members from everywhere around the globe, it seems, in our Fabulous Forum.  Thanks to all who have contributed to this issue.

TheOnionMan:
Regarding adoption of Dodecatheon as Primula, or maintaining Dodecatheon and Primula as separate, let's also throw in Douglasia and Androsace of the Primulaceae into the discussion, a similar issue.  When such changes get published (Dodecatheon consumed by Primula), that act is not unto itself the last word, one needs to sit back and watch other governing bodies, to judge consensus, and see what their take is on the adoption of such changes, and whether subsequent to such changes, how are the changes addressed in new taxonomic works.  We have a classic example before us, with the recently published (and ongoing, yet to be completed) online Flora of North America (FONA).  I find the discussion in FONA for both Dodecatheon and Douglasia to be most illuminating.  I was hoping to garner some discussion about this in the Primula 2010 thread, but none was forthcoming; see that thread for pertinent links:

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4976.msg159173#msg159173

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