346 CORRESPONDENCE. 
base of the column; each of the subdivisions had a callosity in the centre of 
the “claw,” in the case of the median segment, close to the upper and inner 
edge in the lateral segments. Query, do these callosities represent the outer 
two lateral stamens and one of no pese stamens ?—their position justifies 
such an assumption. The flower in question had no ovary, although the 
column was present, bearing below a stigma, at the sides two triangular mem- 
branous wings,—representatives possibly of the two upper and inner stamens, 
. —and above an abortive pollenless anther, 
In conclusion, I will take the liberty of soliciting those of your readers 
who may meet with any malformations in plants to low me the opportu 
nity of inspecting them, should it be consistent with their convenience die 
‘to favour me. 
Yours, ete., 
MAXWELL T. MASTERS. 
Tulipa sylvestris and Cephalanthera rubra, in Gloucestershire. 
Gloucester, October 3, 1864. 
This year I found a new habitat of Tulipa sylvestris near Gloucester, in a 
wood,—some 5000 plants,—but could not procure a single blossom. I believe 
bloom. TI think I was the first discoverer of sic a sylvestris in our county, 
having gathered in 1856 four flowering specimens of it. 
This year I collected specimens of our rarest Goca plant, Cepha- 
hera rubra, one of which was sent to Mr. Syme, T have also received the 
following letter respecting the first discoverer of this Orchid in our county, and 
I may add that I have also made several unsuccessful searches for the plant on 
j eies in the fifth edition of his Manual, mentions Stout’s 
Hill, and the SERRE gathered this year were found close by there 
Yours, etc., 
G. S. WINTLE. 
“ Hardwicke Court, September 14, 1864. 
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zt arescit the Rev. W. Lloyd Baker, of Stoutshill Uley, found what 
_was then called the Serapias rubra growing, as I have been told, near the top 
father gave it to Withering, who acknowledged the plant in his a edition. 
I have a portrait of my grandfather, with a drawing of the plant in his hand. 
He always said that the finding of it was the SRM of his hortus siccus. 
I have also a specimen of the plant in his collectio 
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