Osmeteria through history...

[Ian Thirlwell]

Is it possible there was some confusion with osmium/osmate? Or is it simply
a case of misspelling that got perpetuated - this has happened quite
frequently eg with lep scientific names.

Ian Thirlwell
Hampshire
UK
ian at dunlinclose.freeserve.co.uk


Kenelm Philip wrote in message ...
>
> Ian Thirlwell is, of course, correct: 'osme' is Greek. And
>'osmeterium' rather than 'osmaterium' would be the correct version.
>I still wonder why the older works used 'osmaterium'. Surely it's not
>because they were ignorant of Greek?
>
> Ken Philip
>fnkwp at uaf.edu
>