Angelo Porcelli in southern Italy, in a helpful comment on capsules in Sternbergia, mentioned "the bigger forms of lutea I grow." I wonder if this is a plant I have here grown from seed collected in Corsica and offered on the AGS seed exchange several years ago as Pancratium illyricum? I thought I had finally obtained this Pancratium and was eagerly waiting for it to flower, but it did last fall and turned out to be a Sternbergia. It is a very large one, with foliage about twice as big as other S. lutea I grow. Can Angelo comment on the Sternbergia lutea of the western Mediterranean, as opposed to the eastern parts? I have read that there is also a "miniature" form of S. lutea found on Crete, and I assume I have it here, because I have a much smaller one that is different from the small S. greuteriana. Sternbergia fischeriana recently flowered here, being one of the spring-blooming species, but S. candida hasn't produced buds this year though appearing robust otherwise. I had S. colchiciflora in flower for a couple of years but have since lost it. Perhaps I let it get too dry in summer. S. clusiana is here as seed-grown young bulbs and I hope will flower in another two years. It is extremely drought and heat tolerant. Incidentally, Loren Russell kindly provided me with seeds of the real Pancratium illyricum last fall, so I hope to have it in flower in a few years. Jane McGary Portland, Oregon, USA