Flowering Plants in West Africa (Steentoft) has an index reference to yellow squill = Albuca. Carlo On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Jim McKenney wrote: > Yesterday a thing long desired finally happened: I acquired a copy > of V. > Sackville-West’s Passenger to Teheran. It’s the 1990 edition with an > introduction by her son Nigel Nicolson – I recommend this edition > for this > introduction in particular because it gives good background > information and > gives answers to some questions which the attentive reader will no > doubt > want to ask. > > > > When I finally acquire a book I’ve long wanted, I pounce on it. Last > night I > skimmed through the text, starting from the back and working towards > the > front as is my style. I was searching for the passages where she > describes > seeing Fritillaria imperiialis in the wild. I quickly found that, > but I also > found something which left me puzzled. > > > > Here’s what she wrote: “The yellow squills are everywhere, very > strongly > scented.” What in the world could these have been? Was “squill” a > lapsus > calami for “narcissus”, as in Narcissus tazetta? > > > > Jim McKenney > > jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com > > Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, 39.03871º North, 77.09829º West, > USDA zone > 7 > > My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ > > BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ > > > > Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS > > Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ > > > > Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > Carlo A. Balistrieri Flemington, NJ 262.490.6163 Zone 6