On 5/13/2017 2:07 PM, penstemon wrote: > > Isn’t hippeastrum “star of the horse”? But apparently not much to do > with astronomy. > https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippeastrum/ No, it's said to be from hippeus 'horseman', not hippos 'horse'. On the other hand, there is a word hippeios 'pertaining to horses'. I still want the name of that star -- or was William Herbert thinking of a constellation? My author admits nobody knows what Herbert was thinking of. Jane _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@mailman1.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/