SInce there has been some comment in response to my mentioning the difficulty of buying plant books from South America, specifically Chile (home of so many wonderful bulbs), I thought I should provide the citations of the books I have here to make it easier for people to search for them on the Internet. The _Alpine Garden Society Encyclopaedia of Alpines_, ed. by Kenneth Beckett, AGS Publications Ltd. 1993, ISBN 0-900048-63-8, is as far as I know available only from the AGS Bookstore (see the AGS website), and it now costs over $400 US for the two volumes of about 700 pages each. It's probably getting a little outdated by now but I use it almost every day, since I edit the NARGS journal. The bulb entries are mostly excellent, and as I mentioned, this is the only place to find compendious information on southern Andean plants in English. The series of field guides I mentioned is published by Fundacion Claudio Gay de Empresa El Mercurio S.A.P., Av. Santa Maria No. 5542, Santiago, Chile. I have only two volumes here, but there are at least two others. The ones I have are: Plantas altoandinas en la flora silvestre de Chile, by A. Hoffmann, F. Liberona, M. Munoz, y J. Watson. 1998. ISBN 956-7743-00-2. Flora silvestre de Chile, zona central, by Adriana Hoffmann. 3rd edition, 1995. 4th ed., 1998. ISBN 956-7743-03-7. A book for the bulb-rich northern part of Chile is: Flores del desierto de Chile/Wildflowers of the Chilean desert, by S. Teillier Arredondo and H. A. Zepeda FLores. 1998. Published by Marisa Cuneo Ediciones, Casilla 276, Valdivia, Chile. ISBN 956-7173-22-2. The interesting introduction appears in both Spanish and English. All these Chilean publications are paperbacks with color illustrations throughout (photos in the Flores del desierto, watercolored drawings in the Hoffmann series). Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA