The mistletoe lambda-value analysis by Baumgartner and Fl{\"u}ckiger published in your Journal (1) is of interest (I read the English translation published in Archetype (2)). The authors detected a sidereal-element Moon-rhythm in a berry, instead of the fortnightly lunar-month rhythms that had normally been found in buds, using the same lambda-value maths (changing bud shape) developed by Lawrence Edwards (3). The Moon-rhythm they found was therefore of 9.1 day periodicity (27.3 / 3 days), not the 14 -- 15 day periodicities hitherto reported (4). While they displayed their results by the twelve unequal constellation-divisions along the lunar ecliptic path (the horizontal line along the middle of their graph shows where they reckon these boundaries should be), I would advocate use of a best-fit third-harmonic waveform over 120° of sidereal space as a more scientific approach. The authors were not prepared to part with their data but allowed me a high-resolution graph (5), inviting me to extract lunar longitudes and mean deviations of their lambda values there from. I did this (using the {`}Autograph{'} math package to read off the co-ordinates) and have used these; an error of a degree or so is likely as resulting from my data extraction. [...]
}, annote = {The mistletoe lambda-value analysis by Baumgartner and Fl{\"u}ckiger published in your Journal (1) is of interest (I read the English translation published in Archetype (2)). The authors detected a sidereal-element Moon-rhythm in a berry, instead of the fortnightly lunar-month rhythms that had normally been found in buds, using the same lambda-value maths (changing bud shape) developed by Lawrence Edwards (3). The Moon-rhythm they found was therefore of 9.1 day periodicity (27.3 / 3 days), not the 14 -- 15 day periodicities hitherto reported (4). While they displayed their results by the twelve unequal constellation-divisions along the lunar ecliptic path (the horizontal line along the middle of their graph shows where they reckon these boundaries should be), I would advocate use of a best-fit third-harmonic waveform over 120° of sidereal space as a more scientific approach. The authors were not prepared to part with their data but allowed me a high-resolution graph (5), inviting me to extract lunar longitudes and mean deviations of their lambda values there from. I did this (using the {`}Autograph{'} math package to read off the co-ordinates) and have used these; an error of a degree or so is likely as resulting from my data extraction. [...]
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