John Grimshaw wrote: "Of course it must agree in gender! Allium is a neuter noun so any adjectives in Latin must agree with it and have a neuter -um ending, not a feminine -a, Unless it was published before 1957 the use of 'Album' is illegitimate anyway, and a name in a vernacular language should be substituted." Maybe I should have been a lawyer. Suppose I have a good friend whose nickname is "Album". And suppose this name is not derived from the Latin, but rather in his non-Indo-European language this combination of transliterated letters means "prodigious quaffer of beer". Surely I may name a cultivar for him and call it 'Album'. Or may I? On consideration, I would hope that I could name a cultivar 'Alba' to commemorate an Italian friend of that name. And does the international code require that authors explain the etymology of specific epithets or generic names? I don't recall seeing that in the code; is it there? Jim McKenney jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where it's finally raining. My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/