John Grimshaw wrote, >This plant [Leucojum tingitanum] is now correctly known as Acis tingitana, to follow the very >sensible suggestion from botanists at Kew that all the small Leucojums with >narrow leaves and unmarked flowers revert to the old genus Acis, reserving >Leucojum for the robust, wide-leaved, green-marked L. aestivum and L. >vernum. That nobody has questioned this extraordinary lumping (inb the >1880s, by J.G. Baker) in the past is really quite remarkable. Exactly what is now in Acis? Everything except the two Leucojum species with green markings? The plants I am growing as L. tingitanum (seed from Michael Salmon), from which I distributed a few bulbs last summer, flower in late winter. They have glaucous leaves with a pronounced keel, about 7 mm wide (the leaf, not the keel), and flower stems to 25 cm tall. My reference says L. fontianum is "similar to L. nicaeense, but leaves 6-8 mm wide with flowers in April" and flower stems to 12 cm tall. L. nicaeense has very narrow dark green leaves that tend to lie low to the ground, and is in bud now; and L. trichophyllum has threadlike dark leaves. There is also a pretty fall-blooming all-white species, L. valentinum. All of these increase quite fast in my bulb frames, but I haven't succeeded with them in the open garden yet. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA