On 2 Feb 2009, at 10:46, Jane McGary wrote: > [Galanthus reginae-olgae] increases fairly well but doesn't seem to set > viable seed, perhaps because I have only one clone. I have two forms of this, both grown from exchange seed. One has flowers accurately described by the Farrerean epithet "squinny": rather narrow petals with little substance to them, more nearly the ghost of a plant than a plant of beauty. However, the other form has nice dumpy flowers of good substance, and is a welcome site in late fall. Locally, there is a rather large snowdrop grown that usually flowers in early December regular as clockwork, later than my G. r-o forms but earlier than all the rest. It appears to have been passed from hand to hand in a single small neighborhood, though it occurs spottily elsewhere. I have some specimens of what appears to be the same form. Can anyone suggest the proper name of this form? -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island http://maps.google.ca/maps/…