I will learn how to spell phylloxera correctly.

The only word I ever got tripped up on in a grade school speling bee was "tyranny," which I unfortunately spelled with a double r and single n.

Mark Lipton

So Mark, what's a speling bee??? Oh, the tyrrany of other eyeballs...

Ack!! The irony of it all (and Exhibit A in why I should pay more attention to spell [sic] checkers).

Mark Lipton

mniaceae is the family of mosses to which you refer: "family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae'

mniacedown is a family of prone mosses...

Thanks for the reference to Mnemosyne, Alan. I missed her in my Greek readings, or at least can't remember her.

Quite an interesting Titan -- mother of the Muses. And lots of derivative uses.

Thanks. And thanks to JC for sending us off on this tangent. Bob