Allium triquetum II
Harry Dewey (Sun, 29 Jun 2003 07:54:40 PDT)

James Waddick wrote:

Dear Jim:
Questions of accuracy aren't often satisfactorily settled by voting.
IPNI (the International Plant Names Index), operated under the auspices
of authorities at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
<http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/>, The Harvard University Herbaria,
<http://www.huh.harvard.edu/> and the Australian National Herbarium
<http://155.187.10.12:80/anh/> , provides definitive spellings for most
plant names at
http://www.ipni.org/index.html

Note the correct spelling of this allium name at
http://ipni.org/ipni/IpniServlet/…

When IPNI needs supplementing, I recommend turning to the Missouri
Botanical Garden's W3Tropicos database at
http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html
My friend Hubert Agback, of the University of Uppsala, one of the
world's most distinguished botanic bibliographers, writes that he finds
IPNI and W3Tropicos invaluable and adds: "I also value very much the
Plants database for North American plants maintained by USDA. It is
found at http://plants.usda.gov/

Unfortunately this database is not fully harmonized with the great Flora of
North America project. For cultivars, the Google search engine is invaluable."

You will find the correct spelling of Allium triquetrum at all three of
these megadatabases: IPNI, W3Tropicos and Plants. By design, of
course, the Google and other search engines deliberately perpetuate all
misspellings, as they should.

The Plants database is maintained, by the way, in Beltsville, Maryland,
where it is a beautiful day today.

With best wishes to all,

Harry Dewey, Beltsville, Maryland USA zone 7a