I quite agree about the problems of using the Inness book! Also it is very cautios over the growing conditions for plants. Not every picture is correctly named if I remember right. What it does do is collect an awfull lot of names together along with the names of the botanists who published those names. Peter (UK) On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> wrote: > > I have the Innes book but I don't usually think > of it for current taxonomy since it was published > in 1985. But without good sources about South > American irids it is a help because at least it > has descriptions of plants as they were known at > that time. There isn't a key and they don't > always include the same things in the > descriptions which makes comparing a bit of a challenge. > >