I left something important out of my previous message in which I wrote > A fuller genealogy is... > > Don Elick > me > Ellen Hornig > Tony Avent This refers to the four-petalled form, which is aberrant for a monocot. I believe it was Jerry Flintoff who told me many years ago that this form was also grown by a few gardeners in the Seattle area. Their plants would not fall into the list given above. As the four-petalled form is likely a single clone, the genealogy has other, earlier generations in it and other branches. Jerry also made reference to a form with the petals in the more normal three-fold arrangement you would expect in a monocot. [At least that what my failing memory says! Jerry? Over to you.] There is no mention of it in Brian Mathews' seminal 1973 "Dwarf Bulbs" under any name I can find, nor in his 1986 "The Year-round Bulb Garden", but in his 1987 "The Smaller Bulbs" he refers to it and credits Alberto Castillo as the donor of his plant. I notice, however, that he does not mention the unusual arrangement of the petals in fours. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island