Laff track. Jim, I thank you for your response -- indeed I am about to write you offline asking to borrow an image -- but I did ask for online information about how to extract cochicine. In the 1960s I was not a subscriber to the North American Lily Society's journal, and as I type I am snowed in on a mountain far from any library, research or otherwise. Someone reading this knows how to extract colchicine in a simple way, but might not wish to respond online. Please reply offline if you prefer. Paige Woodward > Paige, you say he wants to extract colchicine. If that means extracting > pure > colchicine, I'm not sure where to send you. > > But if what he wants to do is to induce tetraploidy using crude > preparations > of crushed colchicum corms, that's different. Old issues of the Yearbook > of > the North American Lily Society contain accounts of doing this. I won't > have > the chance to do the search anytime soon, but I'm pretty sure they're > there. > If I were doing the search, I would start with the issues from the 1960s. > > Jim McKenney >