Thanks, Mike for the short but illustrative list of the rarities that will probably never be offered again from wild collected seeds. I am most familiar with the Allium list and I have to say that you're lucky just to even see some of those species in the wild let alone collect seeds! The future doesn't look fantastically bright. Nhu Berkeley, CA -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/xerantheum/ On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mace <mikemace@att.net> wrote: > > To illustrate the situation, here's a selection of some of the North > American bulb seeds I could order in the mid-1990s. >