I just looked up some information on /Acis tingitana/, which is flowering in my bulb house now, and was confused by the text of the entry in the PBS wiki. The information is credited to John Grimshaw, but apparently written up by someone else. I can't tell from the way it's written whether Acis is now moved back into Leucojum, or whether both of them are to be referred to Galanthus. The problem is the phrase "that genus," whose referent is unclear. Could someone please clear this up for us? As mentioned in said text, I've found A/L tingitana/um much hardier than British references state. My plants are under winter cover but have always been exposed to ambient outdoor temperatures usually reaching minus 6 C for short periods. A/L valentina/um, a fall-flowering species also considered tender by some, got out into my present garden in error when I moved 6 years ago and is doing very well there. Both of them increase readily and I must also make more of an effort to collect the seed, which matures rapidly. They would be very welcome in mild-climate gardens. Incidentally, the PBS wiki text speculates that plants exhibited by the Archibalds and illustrated on the wiki may have been the same collection as my photographed plant. They aren't -- mine came from a seed collection with the identifier SBL, S being Michael Salmon, who sold the seed. They may have come from about the same place in North Africa, though. It's interesting that quite a few bulbs thought of as (semi-)tender in the UK and Europe do well outdoors in the Pacific Northwest USA, where winters are colder than in much of Britain and just as wet and gloomy. I don't think it's our dry summers, because I irrigate the areas where some of these bulbs grow weekly in summer. Could it be our lower latitude and correspondingly greater day length during the plants' growing season? Jane McGary Portland, Oregon, USA _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…