Botanical Names & Italics
David Ehrlich (Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:06:58 PDT)

Yesterday morning I noticed that my /Scilla peruviana/ L. is just coming out of dormancy.  A bit early -- global warming? 

Perhaps the most inconvenient and inappropriate example of a botanical name
I have come across if that of Lilium pensylvanicum Ker-Gawler