(urth) The Secret House within BotNS

[António Pedro Marques]

Lee Berman wrote (08-07-2010 04:53):
>> Mo Holkar- Just on this botanical point, rosemary is not a member of the nettle
>> family. It is a member of the mint family.
>
> Thank you for that correction Mo. I re-did the research and I was in error.
> Rosemary and sweet/dead nettle are separate genuses (genii?) within the mint
> family and I got them conflated the first time checking. Ah well.

In fact rosemary, sweet/dead nettle, hedge nettle and the mints all belong 
to several genera of the Labiates. There is also a nettle in the spurge 
family. Besides the normal nettle which has a family of her own, as Mo said.

> I still get the feeling Horn and his family are semi-autobiographical. And when
> an author named Wolfe with wife Rosemary creates a city where men have
> animal-derived names and women have plant-derived names it might not be
> accidental.
>