Joe Shaw wrote: "In 2003 the Angiospermy Phylogeny Group (AGP II report) lumped several monocot families "back" into the Alliaceae and the Asparagaceae. If this arrangement catches on, such families as the Agapanthaceae and others will be footnotes in history." Joe, I only took a quick look at the abstract and did not read the entire article. But in the abstract, the families alluded to are the Alliaceae s.l. and the Asparagaceae s.l. For those of you who don't follow these things, the "s.l." means "in the broad sense". To me that implies that the authors recognize the simultaneous correctness of Alliace s.s. and Asparagaceae s.s. (s.s. meaning in the narrow sense). Perhaps I misunderstand the authors' use of modal auxiliaries, but it seems to me that nothing has changed. The authors themselves use the term "optional" to describe these arrangements. Jim McKenney jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7 My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/Bulletins/ Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/