Corrections and clarifications

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/mar/22/corrections-and-clarifications

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• Because of an editing error, a Country Diary from Sunderland (19 March, page 42) that discussed a close examination of the coltsfoot plant (Tussilago farfara) said that the “central disc florets in this composite flower are male. Each has a central anther rising like a piston through the rest of the stamen”. In fact, while textbook descriptions of coltsfoot inflorescences do describe the central disc florets as being entirely male, the writer’s original observation was that, if one looks closely, it becomes apparent that the central disc florets are in fact structurally hermaphrodite, with a central stigma forcing pollen from a ring of anthers surrounding it.

• A missing word resulted in a piece about climate change saying that limiting the Earth’s surface temperature to 2C would make it impossible to burn many fossil fuel reserves, according to a report by the Green European Foundation. The threshold is a surface temperature increase of 2C (Davey backs switch from coal to green investments, 18 March, page 1).

• A report on the recent shootings in Gothenburg (Two dead and 10 injured after pub gun attack, 20 March, page 32) wrongly referred to the city as Sweden’s third-largest. It is the country’s second-largest.