I'm sorry I'm not a taxonomist, just a botany fan. One sad things about the (I think impossible) elimination of binomials is that probably I can remember easily some thousands of binomials but only (with practice) few dozen of "names" like PI-31415926. Being italian, I'm a little biased towards latin names ! Giovanni Resta resta at iei.pi.cnr.it ÿÿ binomials ub