June bugs
Alice Faber
faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU
Sun Jun 17 22:52:46 UTC 2001
Kim & Rima McKinzey said:
>>Then there's the whole daffodil/buttercup controversy...
>
>There is? To me, daffodils are those tall, multibloom stalky flowers
>and buttercups are short, little, clovery yellow ground cover sorts
>of flowers.
Agreed. All they share is the color (and then if you hold a buttercup up
against a daffodil, there is a subtle difference in shading).
To me, the real controversy has to do with whether the stalky flowers are
daffodils or narcissus.
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