What is wrong with Scilla and many people already know or can find it fun to know that it was a ship called The Peru which brought the bulbs to England and so arose the epithet.Any good book will tell you this.Does anyone grow the pink or yellowish forms mentioned in Brian Mathew's book 'The Smaller Bulbs' ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arnold Trachtenberg" <arnold@nj.rr.com> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Ambiquous Common name nomination > Well, it's not only the "unscientific" among us who use common names > that are either misnamed or down right incorrect how about Scilla > Peruviana. > > Arnold > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > >