Two things about Jane McGary’s response to this thread caught my eye. Jane, I’m curious about your recommendation to capitalize the initial O in oncocyclus. If we do not capitalize the initial letters of genera used as vernacular names, what justification is there for the capitalization the initial letter of a subgeneric taxon used the same way? Now on to something entirely different. You mention a crocus name “ there are some names such as Crocus x jessopiae”. Bowles published this name as Crocus jessoppiae (i.e., with two letters p) and, as if to forestall any “improvements” of his spelling went on to cite the name of the eponym, Miss Euphemia Jessopp. I notice that both you and Brian Matthew use other spellings. I think this might be a case of great minds thinking alike, but incorrectly. Jim McKenney jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, 39.03871º North, 77.09829º West, USDA zone 7 My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/