There has been some discussion of the triploid variants of Fritillaria affinis found in a few parts of the San Francisco Bay area, the best known being the clone 'Wayne Roderick'. These were once called var. tristulis, now not recognized as a valid name. I've been labeling the digital scans of a large number of slides left by David Hale of Portland, with the aim of preserving their accessibility for at least as long as this medium is used. I just came across photos of three "tristulis" forms including 'Wayne Roderick' with a location written on the slide mounts. It gives mileage and a reference to "Farm B." (I'm not being exact about this, for understandable reasons.) Does anyone in the Bay area know if this population still exists? Probably the great California plantsman Wayne Roderick himself took David to the site, as they sometimes traveled together in California. I knew David for many years and traveled a few times with him and his wife, Donna. Although aware of his photo archive, I never saw all of it, and going through the 1200+ slides I chose out of many, many more to have digitized has been an awe-inspiring experience. It ranges from the familiar wildflowers of our Pacific Northwest region to his discovery of the gold-flecked crimson Nototriche of the high Peruvian Andes. I will check with Donna and their daughter to see if it's all right to post some of these photos on the PBS wiki. Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>