Re: Wild kettle and oxen

From: Odysseus (odysseus1479-at_at_yahoo-dot.ca)
Date: 02/10/05


Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:46:43 GMT

Alan Crozier wrote:
>
> "I.E_Johansson" <inger_e.johansson@telia.com> wrote in message
> news:ATmOd.16832$d5.136475@newsb.telia.net...
> > Jerry T,
> > as usual you haven't done your homework at all!
> > why am I not surprised that you who tried to write this and that against
> me
> > as well as against my messages for several years rather lean to works than
> > to scientific correct information?
> >
> > First you should have read Kalm. He speaks of Swedish enbuske, which is
> the
> > same as Juniperus communis L. and not any other type of en what so ever.

<snip>
>
> Lots of Kalm's references to juniper are to a kind which he calls "röda
> enen" (red juniper), Juniperus virginiana, known in English as Eastern Red
> Cedar and in French, according to Kalm, as Cedar Rouge.
>

Wouldn't _J. communis_ be more aptly described as "Red"?

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

-- 
Odysseus


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