From several points of view other than DNA studies, the genus Prospero seems to make a lot of sense. I think I'm growing all species in it, and they do have a lot in common, including their fall flowering. I don't think I have any photos of P. autumnale (which indeed seems like it should be autumnalis!) that would be good for the wiki. It's one of those very slender, small-flowered plants that are hard to photograph. The best photo I have is a colony growing in roadside gravel (it's probably a "pioneer plant"). If I see some looking good this month I'll try again here. Very good to hear that the other splits of Scilla are apparently not widely accepted. I hate making those metal labels. Not going to do it just to neuter Prospero. Mary SUe wrote, "Also in that post from Julian he wrote: "no evidence exists to >support the separation of Muscari", but the Plant list now recognizes >Pseudomuscari and Leopoldia, but not Muscarimia." I had been under the impression that Leopoldia was long since sunk in Muscari (Leopoldias are the "tassel hyacinths" such as M. comosum), and that the former monotypic Pseudomuscari chalusicum is now the bizarrely named Muscari pseudomuscari. Whatever you call the latter, it is a real gem -- lovely light blue flowers of good substance, and a bulb that almost never offsets, but it's easy to raise from seed. Paige mentioned Fessia (Scilla) gorganica. Rare in cultivation, it flowered for me for the first time last winter. Its more robust congeners are F. (S) greilhuberi, which is a good garden plant here, and F. (S) hohenackeri, which seems somewhat less enthusiastic. These are leafy plants with large mid-blue flowers that have attractive exserted stamens. S. greilhuberi even made it into the lawn here, among some random bulbs rescued from the bulb frame plunge material, and it seems quite happy in short turf. Jane McGary Portland, Oregon, USA