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Cryptography. </div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal">Dear Listers,</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal">You may be interested to read that the source of Linnaeus' idea on using the mythology about Andromeda and Perseus to name a plant genus has been found in a page of
a Medieval manuscript, dating from 1444. </span></div>
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It had previously been thought that Linnaeus had indulged in a flight of wild imagination in naming the plant<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><i>Andromeda</i>, but we now know that he was simply referencing familiar medicinal folklore about the plant, which
had since been lost to history. Now it has been rediscovered. </div>
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A paper is available to freely download from the LingBuzz website. Plant Page, No. 6: <a href="https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004971" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px">https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004971</a><br>
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Please feel free to disseminate the information to other scholars who may have an interest.</div>
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Kindest regards,</div>
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Dr. Gerard Cheshire.</div>
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Research Associate.</div>
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University of Bristol. </div>
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