The name Primula or primrose is derived from the word primary or first, referring to the early growth and flowering in spring (Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium, 1976). More than 400 species of primula exist in the family Primulaceae (Griffiths, 1994). Other important horticultural genera in this family, besides primula, include pimpernel (Anagallis), rock jasmine (Androsace), persian violet, alpin...

Fin k and Zeld itch (1995) recen tly prop osed a m ethod by w hich one m ay infer phylo geny from onto genetic tran sform a-tions of continuous m orphological data. They coded ontogenetic reg ression s of sh ap e on size to obtain discre te characters, w hich they used as input into a parsim ony ana lysis. A s sh ape variab les, they used p ar tial warp scores obtained from an an al-ysis based ...

The freshwater shrimp genus, Neocaridina Kubo, 1938, comprises a group of land-locked organisms of the family Atyidae which is distributed throughout Russia, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam (Cai 1996, Liang 2004). Unlike the genera Caridina and Macrobrachium with both catadromous and land-locked species, all known species of Neocaridina are land-locked as evidenced by the abbreviated l...

Cattle were fed a diet containing bracken fern in the continuation of a study of the urinary bladder neoplasms produced under these conditions. One of the cattle died of a traumatic pericarditis and had no bladder lesion at 485 days. The other six animals fed bracken fern for from 510 to 1920 days all had gross bladder neoplasms. Four of the six animals with gross bladder neoplasms had transiti...