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year’s growth before resting. Section III., those’ 
that flower from last year’s growth after resting. 
All these are many, but C. /. vera stands alone. 
We have no need to dwell upon the contest that 
arose at the introduction of Cattleya Mossie in 
1840, which grew more and more bitter as others 
of the class came in, and has not yet ceased. It 
is enough to say that Lindley declined to recog- 
nize C. Mossie as a species, though he stood 
almost solitary against “the trade,” backed by a 
host of enthusiastic amateurs. The great botanist 
declared that he could see nothing in the beautiful 
new Cattleya to distinguish it as a species from 
the one already named, C. /abiata, except that 
most variable of characteristics, colour. Modes 
of growth and times of flowering do not concern 
science. The structure of the plants is identical, 
and to admit C. J7ossie as a sub-species of the 
same was the utmost concession Lindley would 
make. This was in 1840. Fifteen years later 
came C. Warscewiczt, now called gzgas; then, 
next year, C. Triane; C. Dowiana in 1866; 
C, Mendellit in 1870—all labzatas, strictly speak- 
ing. At each arrival the controversy was re- 
newed; it is not over yet. But Sir Joseph 
Hooker succeeded Lindley and Reichenbach 
succeeded Hooker as the supreme authority, and 
