Crown-beard, Mammy!
Mercy! A couple of scientists have actually studied ice ribbon formation in Verbesina virginica. One guy made a movie of the phenomena. And here Crumby thought he was the only person doing a season long study on a subject verb virgin. Just goes to help prove the Druid maxim, There’s nothing new under this or that sun.
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Yesterday the ice ribbons festooning Crumby’s subject verb virgin melted. So last night, the subject verb virgin did it again, extruded more new ice ribbons. Holy Cow! That’s 7-8 discrete events. Goodness!
OK. As everyone knows, the water moves up the stem. Comes first frost, the water freezes in the stem, expands and splits the stem open. But for this process to continue, a portion of the stem near ground level must remain intact. That’s right. Those tiny tubes that transport the water up the stem must stay structurally sound. Otherwise, the ice ribbons will go off near the ground, under the grass or leaf litter and likely go unnoticed.
So Crumby got down on his hands and knees, assuming that most vulnerable of positions that seriously tempt all the sexual predators. OK. If the sexual predators are fixing to sneak up on me, you need to bark, Crumby explained to his little dog.
No sexual predators snuck up. Therefore, Crumby was able to ascertain that the stems of the subject verb virgin were nice and green looking beneath the ice extrusion zone. Which brings up a troubling point. Verb virgin is a perennial weed. But the stems above the ice extrusion zone are dead as John’s head on a plate. Those stems shall never be any count ever again. So how do new stems arise from the basal crown that apparently remains unfrozen? That’s what Crumby wants to know now.
Speaking of crowns, Crumby likes it when a genus has a common name. For example, the genus Hymenoxys is sneezeweeds. Likewise, Verbesina is crown-beards. However, common names for a plant genus are akin to common knowledge. And common knowledge is similar to common sense, which means, most of us commoners have forgotten the common knowledge, if we ever knew it in the first place. Huh-huh. Common knowledge is as common as common sense. Rare! Threatened! Endangered!
So! Consider a plant genus, Verbesina, with the common name, Crown-beard. What does crown-beard mean? Well. Crown-beard is the common name for Verbesina. Mercy!
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Yesterday the ice ribbons festooning Crumby’s subject verb virgin melted. So last night, the subject verb virgin did it again, extruded more new ice ribbons. Holy Cow! That’s 7-8 discrete events. Goodness!OK. As everyone knows, the water moves up the stem. Comes first frost, the water freezes in the stem, expands and splits the stem open. But for this process to continue, a portion of the stem near ground level must remain intact. That’s right. Those tiny tubes that transport the water up the stem must stay structurally sound. Otherwise, the ice ribbons will go off near the ground, under the grass or leaf litter and likely go unnoticed.
So Crumby got down on his hands and knees, assuming that most vulnerable of positions that seriously tempt all the sexual predators. OK. If the sexual predators are fixing to sneak up on me, you need to bark, Crumby explained to his little dog.
No sexual predators snuck up. Therefore, Crumby was able to ascertain that the stems of the subject verb virgin were nice and green looking beneath the ice extrusion zone. Which brings up a troubling point. Verb virgin is a perennial weed. But the stems above the ice extrusion zone are dead as John’s head on a plate. Those stems shall never be any count ever again. So how do new stems arise from the basal crown that apparently remains unfrozen? That’s what Crumby wants to know now.
Speaking of crowns, Crumby likes it when a genus has a common name. For example, the genus Hymenoxys is sneezeweeds. Likewise, Verbesina is crown-beards. However, common names for a plant genus are akin to common knowledge. And common knowledge is similar to common sense, which means, most of us commoners have forgotten the common knowledge, if we ever knew it in the first place. Huh-huh. Common knowledge is as common as common sense. Rare! Threatened! Endangered!
So! Consider a plant genus, Verbesina, with the common name, Crown-beard. What does crown-beard mean? Well. Crown-beard is the common name for Verbesina. Mercy!
posted by ray pistrum at Monday, January 11, 2010
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