Eugene Zielinski's has just posted to the list about something misnamed in the BX. Jim Waddick's recently posted trying to find information out about a plant that when you search for it on the Internet seems mostly just to appear in seed exchange lists. Also recently there was also a question about what Angelo was offering which he suspected was just that Dell couldn't read his writing and guessed what it was. Dell spends a lot of time on the BX and just accepts the names that people give him for the seeds and bulbs they offer. I don't think we could expect him to check to see if the names he lists are accurate, accepted, spelled correctly (I'm not sure what word to use here since there isn't always agreement about names.) When I look through BX offerings I often see old names or names that are not spelled correctly, but have refrained from pointing this out. But since our BX offerings are listed on our website each time we get to 100 or more and since they are picked up in Google searches, we may be contributing to the confusion about what to call something when something is offered under a name that is misspelled. If it is corrected after the fact, this may be missed in a Google Search or when the list of the most recent 100 is compiled. I'm not sure how to solve this. I don't know if someone volunteered to check the names before Dell sends them out, if this would be an extra step that made his very difficult job more work. Perhaps the donors could check their names carefully before notifying Dell. We try to keep up to date on the wiki on names and list synonyms if we change names we are all familiar with. The Plant List is a good resource for accepted names and synonyms since it uses several data bases in deciding what is accepted. Including synonyms would also no doubt be helpful. For instance the accepted name these days is Freesia laxa, but it is still often referred to by old names. So a BX listing could be Freesia laxa (syn. Anomatheca laxa, Anomatheca cruenta, Lapeirousia laxa) Mary Sue