Alberto Castillo wrote, > >But, it will impossible for someone not inhabiting a botany library >to remember all the synonimy as species are walked around. The >recent Albuca to Ornithogalum and back to Albuca is an example. The Royal Botanical Gardens Kew website has pretty good lists of synonymy. I recently used it to track down the "real" name of the plant I grew from seed called "Camassia biflora," which is a pretty old synonym for what is now, apparently, to be called Oziroe biflora. It had been in Fortunatia in the interim, and I did know the genus Fortunatia from seeing it in the wild, but did not make the connection without documentation. And no, it's not an ornamental wonder -- just a BIO (Botanical Interest Only). You can find a number of other synonymies online once you learn to avoid the websites that are programmed to pop up on a search on any botanical name but have no real information on them. I did a great deal of this searching when preparing the cumulative index of the NARGS journal a couple of years ago (it's now on http://www.nargs.org/ but will not include many of the bulbs, especially warm-climate ones, that PBS members are interested in). Jane McGary, Portland, OR