The identity of the "georgeous Juno" I described in an earlier posting is getting more puzzling. An adjacent pot of another Halda collection from the same year, JJH 970856 listed as being from Uzbekistan and having "deep yellow" flowers, has now opened flowers on two plants, and these appear identical to the previously described JJH 970737 from Dagestan -- that is, blue standards and white falls veined and spotted violet and gold -- except that their standards (the tiny tonguelike structures that actually lie below the falls) are more violet than white. I wonder if the Juno seeds got mixed up that year? The seed list also contains "Juno aff. narbuti JJH 970815" from the Central Pamirs in Tajikistan (though described as with yellow flowers), and the three are numbers 100, 101, and 102 in the catalog. As mentioned, my plants resemble I. narbuti except in certain minor structural features. I suppose it's also possible that Josef guessed the flower color from withered blooms, or that there were more than one species on the site. He does list 970737 as "china-blue and yellow," which is more like both the ones I have. Perhaps I can find some others who are flowering plants with these various numbers. Anyway, I now seem to have 7 or 8 plants of a truly beautiful and striking tricolored iris (or Juno, if you follow the Russian system), and if they are indeed I. narbuti, that is a pretty good haul for $8 worth of seed and 5 years of waiting. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon