BCSS MEETING
April 13, 2004

We started the "social" portion of the meeting with excellent food, thanks once again to Mary, Rosemarie and Pat Filkins. Vonne acted as President for this meeting, since Matt was at home with Sylvia and their new baby Boy! We discussed field trips (May 15), yard sale (May 1&2), show and sale (October), the memorial service for Gordon Sanford, and future programs. Then Maynard Moe spoke to the club about the naming of plants ("A Cacti by Any Other Name...") He included lots of group participation and it was a lively presentation. We learned about the history of Linnean classification. We also learned why classifying plants based on vegetative structures is not a good idea and why using their reproductive parts and DNA provide a better basis for classification. We were impressed to learn of the most modern techniques being used (DNA comparison). After the talk, we had the Plant of the Month and the raffle. We had a pretty full house of 30 people attend this month!