We've recently had a lot of discussion about nomenclature in the genus Colchicum. I find that there is a major article on the subject by Karin Persson in Botanischer Jahrbucher 127.2:165-242 (2007). It is available for download at http://www.ingenta.com/, but you have to pay $42 (US) for the privilege, and without getting a look at it first, I'm not sure I want to pay that much. I think I'll see if I can get it free at an institutional library that subscribes to the service. It would probably be too big a document for my dial-up connection, anyway. Jane McGary