Hi, The last issue of the IRG e-magazine was nice, but I doubt that Janis’ three new species were validly described. The author did not select the types, he only mentioned the herbarium where the types are deposited. That’s not enough, I think.
All the best, Adolf Ceska ********************************************** Adolf & Oluna Ceska ace...@telus.net 1809 Penshurst Rd., Victoria, BC CANADA V8N 2N6 250-477-1211 (home); 250-216-1481 (cell/mobile) http://mushroomobserver.org/observer/observations_by_user/2873 http://mushroomobserver.org/observer/show_user/2873 BEN archive: http://mpb.ou.edu/ben/ ********************************************** From: alpine-l-boun...@science.uu.nl [mailto:alpine-l-boun...@science.uu.nl] On Behalf Of Youngs Aberdeen Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 4:45 AM To: alpine-l@science.uu.nl Subject: [Alpine-l] Internatoinol Rock Gardener e-magazine- Crocus Special IRG 61 is a Crocus Special: http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Jan291422555042IRG61.pdf Various Crocus are discussed and 3 new species are described Dr. Jānis Rukšāns, described by Chris Brickell as a “journalist, author, nationalist politician, plantsman, plant breeder, plant explorer,and eminent nurseryman” describes various new Crocus species - [i]Crocus gunae, Crocus reinhardii Crocus iranicus [/i] Jānis is also a speaker at the SRGC Discussion Weekend in October http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12742.0 Main page for all issues of International Rock Gardener e-magazine http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/index.php?log=international Up to date Index to IRG always available here http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9567.0
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