'pimpernel' in Russian - ?

[Sharon Campbell Knox]

Hey!  Dostoevsky was arguing /against/ the idea that
2 + 2 = 4 was the only way to think!  But if you want to
send Ivan to hell, that's OK.

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Genevra Gerhart wrote:

> Wait a ... minute.
> Of course I had spent most of my life thinking that Scarlet Pimpernel
> was a boat in a story. Of course not.  It is, rather, a weed.
> Actually, Scarlet Pimpernel = Anagallis arvensis = Ochnyy tsvet
> polevoy.  There appear to be other Anagallis but they are different
> species, and therefore not scarlet.  To hell with Dostoevsky.
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