>Speaking of which, and staying with Galanthus - do you know the story of >Nancy Goodwin in North Carolina? She went to a local hardware store and >bought something like 100 Galanthus nivalis. Only they began flowering in >December. Turns out they were all Galanthus elwesii monosticta. It turns out that these are Galanthus elwesii var. monostictus Hiemalis Group. (Whew.) I suspect that these laws are punishment-oriented rather than prevention-oriented. If an individual were caught with galanthus dug from the wild, would be the bulbs be returned to the wild? Preventing an individual from importing a cultivated galanthus seems to have no purpose other than punishment. Certainly not protection of wild species. Bob Nold Denver, Colorado high of zero (-17C) today