Google IS my friend. But so is PBS. I like giving PBS members the chance to share their knowledge with me. Wikipedia is friendly too, but a bit sketchy. I got all excited about Ainea, a new-to-me genus of irid from North America, only to find it's really Tigridia. Naughty, Wikipedia. Naughty. It's a pity the SIGNA website doesn't address this kind of stuff. Someone should complain to the webmaster about it. Dennis in Cincinnati On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:37 AM, James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com> wrote: > Dear PBSers, > > I think I have a new record in number of deletes over pointless > ranting. > > Meanwhile I don’t recall any one helping to ID species in the > genus Chionodoxa. My go-to for cultivated bulbs is ‘The European Garden > Flora’. Vol has a key to the six most commonly encountered species in the > genus. These keys aren’t always easy to use and don’t always cover EVERY > species, but I think this one is pretty good. Vol 1 P 214-215 > > Dennis surely you know that Google is your friend. And if not > that there is always ‘World of the Iridaceae' by Innes. Fun to go through > the pages and pictures. A newer look is The Iris Family: Natural History > and Classification by Peter Goldblatt. Worth a look. > > Best Jim W. > > > > Are there any genera of Iridaceae other than Iris found in Asia or > > northern Europe? > > James Waddick > 8871 NW Brostrom Rd > Kansas City, MO 64152-2711 > USA > Phone 816-746-1949 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/