Thanks, Bianca. Do you know what the plant was called in pre-Linnaean times? Are we sure Linnaeus the Younger was not doing what his father did often, i.e. borrow pre-existing names from the older literature?Jim McKenney _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@mailman1.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/