Isn't it a bud scale?

First of all, you had better correct your spelling!
The taxon to which you refer is Aesculus pavia L. The genus and species should be underlined or presented in italics; L signifies Linneaus, the author of the name.

"The genus and species should be underlined or presented in italics;"

Then why on earth didn't you? :-)

Patrick Alexander

Ever notice that no one on GW correctly 'writes' genus and species by putting them in italics? Could it be becuase the site is a little archiac in it's font aplications?

Personally... italicization doesn't strike me as incredibly important, but I also hadn't realized earlier that you can italicize things on these forms. Since you can use normal html to insert pictures and things, though, I figured I'd see if it works for italicization, too. It does: <i> starts italics, </i> ends italics. And then you can type Aesculus pavia properly all you want, just have to get used to those silly angle brackets. You can also put things in bold, different colors, different fonts, larger fonts, or all kinds of other exciting but not incredibly useful things, too...

Actually, I'm just as glad most of this isn't known by the general gardenweb user community. When people realize they can do silly things like this, they start inserting obnoxious smily faces, animations, etc., as a way of demonstrating to the world at large just how ditzy they are... That's started to happen to a couple forums here, but not to nearly the extent of some other web sites.

Patrick Alexander