Mary Sue wrote: >> it is highlighted on the Ibiblio web site Nice spotting! Thanks for pointing that out. >>Ibiblio changes their main page frequently. Otherwise we could add this as a reference on Wikipedia. Actually, we can link to anything that's accessible on the web. If it looks like it'll disappear in time, we can run the link through a service that preserves an image of the original item referenced. So I added that iBiblio post this morning. Most people don't understand how important links are to a Wikipedia entry. Contrary to popular opinion, you're not allowed to log in and add original information. If you do, your article will be pulled down. Instead, everything needs to be footnoted via links to print publications or things that have been posted on the web. The more footnotes you have, the less likely that the powers in Wikipedia will mess with you. We had a bit of a struggle over the PBS entry until we found some links that mentioned the society. So, anytime you spot a blog post or website that gives information or says nice things about the society, please let us know so we can add it to the Wikippedia article (or, if you know how to edit Wikipedia, you are welcome to add the info directly to the article). Thanks! Mike San Jose, CA ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:47:21 -0700 From: Gastil Gastil-Buhl <gastil.buhl@gmail.com> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org Subject: [pbs] source of Iris cycloglossa in N. America? Message-ID: <E1772B55-58E7-46E7-B8AA-A205FE36E465@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Ian Efford asks if anyone knows of a source of Iris cycloglossa seed or bulbs. We have seen the listing from rareplants.co.uk found on the PBS Sources page but are hoping for a source that does not require import. If you know of a source please reply to efford@shaw.ca as well as the list. Additionally, Ian writes: "As to the plant, it is very rare in nature [from around Herat in Afghanistan] and not grown by many people. I did get seed once but the seedling died. The source has gone out of business and I only know of two growers in N.Am. I have approached one and not had a reply and the other said that I should ask him again in September." ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 20:01:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Rodney Barton <rbartontx@yahoo.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>, "efford@shaw.ca" <efford@shaw.ca> Subject: Re: [pbs] source of Iris cycloglossa in N. America? Message-ID: <1395457305.36008.YahooMailNeo@web124506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi Ian!? How is life treating you? McClure and Zimmerman offers I. cycloglossa.? Rodney ________________________________ From: Gastil Gastil-Buhl <gastil.buhl@gmail.com> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 7:47 PM Subject: [pbs] source of Iris cycloglossa in N. America? Ian Efford asks if anyone knows of a source of Iris cycloglossa seed or bulbs. We have seen the listing from rareplants.co.uk found on the PBS Sources page but are hoping for a source that does not require import. If you know of a source please reply to efford@shaw.ca as well as the list. Additionally, Ian writes: "As to the plant, it is very rare in nature [from around Herat in Afghanistan] and not grown by many people.? I did get seed once but the seedling died.? The source has gone out of business and I only know of two growers in N.Am.? I have approached one and not had a reply and the other said that I should ask him again in September." ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:47:47 -0700 From: Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [pbs] Paeonia identity question Message-ID: <E1WQQDF-0006o0-Qj@elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Jim McKenney wrote: >A friend sent me this peony image today: it's labeled Paeonia >mairei. I don't grow that species, but other images of it on the web >are not at all like this. Paeonia mairei Leveille (1915) is a Chinese plant closely related to P. obovata. Its synonyms are P. bifurcata and P. oxypetala. It is said to have more pointed leaves than P. obovata. My reference for this is Halda, The Genus Paeonia, which, however, is "splittist" in tendency. Jane McGary Portland, Oregon, USA ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:49:27 -0400 From: "Tim Eck" <teck11@embarqmail.com> To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [pbs] Paeonia identity question Message-ID: <001801cf45cd$29e9e3c0$7dbdab40$@embarqmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Paeonia mairei Leveille (1915) is a Chinese plant closely related to P. obovata. Its synonyms are P. bifurcata and P. oxypetala. It is said to have more pointed leaves than P. obovata. My reference for this is Halda, The Genus Paeonia, which, however, is "splittist" in tendency. Jane McGary Portland, Oregon, USA Jane, Your comment on "splittist tendency" reminded me of my Wikipedia search for 'Hippeastrum'. I was trying to put together a presentation on the genus and was disconcerted to see that Wikipedia would not commit to a phylum or class but was willing to insert a subfamily, tribe, and subtribe between family and genus. Admittedly it's been 45 years since I've had a botany or taxonomy course and there has been a lot of parallel developments and philosophical changes affecting taxonomy, but I'd love to know 'the rest of the story' on what seems to be a basic dis-functionality regarding flowering plant taxonomy. Thanks, Tim ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php End of pbs Digest, Vol 134, Issue 25 ************************************