From pycyn@aol.com Mon Sep 09 14:17:46 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 9 Sep 2002 21:17:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 74139 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2002 21:17:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 9 Sep 2002 21:17:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d08.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.40) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Sep 2002 21:17:45 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.10.) id r.184.e110f7c (3924) for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:17:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <184.e110f7c.2aae69ea@aol.com> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:17:30 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Of frogs and buttercups To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_184.e110f7c.2aae69ea_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10509 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2455001 X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_184.e110f7c.2aae69ea_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/8/2002 10:11:33 PM Central Daylight Time, phma@webjockey.net writes: << > . Why is it called buttercup, >> As she remarks to the audience at her introduction. It is vaguely cup shaped and (typically) bright yellow. << and why is it called Ranunculus? >> Harder to say: something about it looked like a tadpole? It is also called crowsfoot (the shape of the leaves of some species) and King's cup (yellow=gold, probably). Strictly, it is modernly ranunculus because it was classically (Pliny, etc.), but God knows where Pliny got it (or the gardeners Pliny was quoting). _ --part1_184.e110f7c.2aae69ea_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/8/2002 10:11:33 PM Central Daylight Time, phma@webjockey.net writes:

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. Why is it called buttercup,

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As she remarks to the audience at her introduction. It is vaguely cup shaped and (typically) bright yellow.

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and why is it called Ranunculus?
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Harder to say: something about it looked like a tadpole? It is also called crowsfoot (the shape of the leaves of some species) and King's cup (yellow=gold, probably). Strictly, it is modernly ranunculus because it was classically (Pliny, etc.), but God knows where Pliny got it (or the gardeners Pliny was quoting). _ --part1_184.e110f7c.2aae69ea_boundary--