From JEAN WELBECK
Unless ‘Techspeak’ means totally inaccurate as well as linguistically
obtuse, you had no business giving a prize to Alan Larman for describing
a Christmas tree as a ‘seasonally appropriate non-deciduous crytogametic
angiosperm’ (Review, 17 February). The Christmas tree will have been a phanerogram,
not a cryptogram, and a gymnosperm, not an angiosperm.
Jean Welbeck Harpenden, Hertfordshire
