Klarinet Archive - Posting 000747.txt from 1998/01

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Reed Rush
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:59:02 -0500

>Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:17:35 +0000 (GMT)
>From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
>Subject: Re: Reed rush vs sand paper
>
>It's not a reed or a rush, but the dried stems of various horsetails,
>which are (I think) pteridophytes, like ferns. The abrasive quality is
>partly due to the nature of the surface, and partly to the high silica
>content of these stems.
>Roger Shilcock

Absolutely correct - a mark of A from the biologist