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A Psilon Is a unit a length that is equal to 44 manly strides or less precisely 0.025 miles (a quarter of a tenth of a mile) . The Psilon is best known as the official unit of measurement during the censusing of plants in the genus Silene (see Silene) in the metapopulation surrounding Mountain Lake Biological Station in Giles county, Virginia.[1][2]

Etymology: Derived from the Latin Silene with an added P for pretentiousness.

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  1. ^ Thrall, P.H. & Antonovics, J.A. : "THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL-STUDIES OF METAPOPULATIONS - POPULATION AND GENETIC DYNAMICS OF THE SILENE-USTILAGO SYSTEM", pg S1249-S1258 . Canadian Journal of Botany, 1995.
  2. ^ D.E McCauly. The Relative Contributions of Seed and Pollen Movement to the Local Genetic Structure of Silene alba,pg 257-263. Journal of Heredity, 1997

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