Scilla peruviana
totototo@telus.net (Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:09:12 PDT)

On 13 Aug 08, at 21:54, jmsjon664@aol.com wrote:

Thanks to Jim McKenney for setting the record straight on the derivation of
Scilla peruviana (named for the ship, the Peru, that brought it to England from
its home in the western Mediterranean).  I was misled by Phillips and Rix, who
said in 'Bulbs', "Linnaeus thought it came from Peru". Jim Jones

Another error of the same general type: Roy Gender in his fat book "Bulbs"
asserts that Chionodoxa sardensis is named in reference to the island of
Sardinia. It's actually named after the ancient city of Sardis located in Asia
Minor.

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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate

on beautiful Vancouver Island