You are quite right Roland, my mistake, the ship was called "Peru". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Squill/ Message: 1 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 17:53:21 +0200 From: Bulborum Botanicum <bulborum@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [pbs] Please help ID this To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Message-ID: <CABsCM2rsWmkUmK7avyFX28z_Q02GbbLMAW7dHnv1DVHqMKa9ww@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I thought The name of the ship was Peru maybe someone can confirm this Roland 2012/10/4 David Retief <dretief@yahoo.com> > Hi Again, > > Thanks for the trouble - I got an ID in my facebook group: > > Scilla peruviana (which interestingly enough, is not from Peru - the ship > that brought the plant samples to Carolus Linnaeus in 1753 was called the > Peruviana, and he was thus mislead). > > > Kind regards, > David.