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To: Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: your mail
From: Kay Lancaster <kay@fern.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 21:04:02 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
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On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Stanley Friesen wrote:

> I would be *very* cautious about identifying grasses per se just from
> leaves.  Grass leaves really do not differ much from those of sedges, or
> several other groups of "grass-like" monocots.  Even cattail leaves cannot
> be reliably distinguished from those of robust grasses unless they are whole.

If you've got cellular detail, even just stomatal detail, you can 
do a pretty reliable job of distinguishing the named families, even
down to tribal level.

Kay Lancaster  kay@fern.com

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