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in its anxiety to gain respectability bothered me consid- 

 erable in straightening out the records. Let such cases 

 be a warning to us not to recognize foundlings, or at 

 least depreciate them so much in dollars and cents that 

 the firm sending out such things will take more trouble 

 next time to keep track of their lots. 



At the sale of the Fernside collection, April 7, 1891, 

 plants of Elliottianum with seed of that species crossed 

 with Lathamianum x and euryandrum x resp., sown 

 unto the pots, were sold. What has become of them? 



I am one of those unfortunate orchid enthusiasts to 

 whom never was granted acquaintanceship with the king 

 of Cypripedia, Stonei platytsenium. Do not blame me, 

 therefore, if I make a blunder in suggesting that it be 

 a natural hybrid between Stonei and Lowii. Such cross 

 artificially raised has not flowered yet, and though there 

 is every possibility of a seedling of such parentage 

 growing in some collection at the present time, do not 

 mind trying it over and over again. You know how 

 much hybrids vary, and if you do not flower a Stonei 

 platytsenium, may be it will be a platytseiiium never- 

 theless. 



Several names have been used twice in christening 

 hybrids. Three of those, viz., Adonis, Macfarlanei and 

 Horneri stand as good hybrids, their namesakes requir- 

 ing subduction as synonyms. But all the rest are elim- 

 inated entirely from the rank of distinct hybrids as they 

 had been raised at other places previously. They are 

 Denisianum, Sirius, gloriosum, Roberti, Hebe, Hera, 

 Cecilia, and the commonplace hybridum. 



All those hybrids of Cypripedia which, as far as I 

 could learn, are identical with the reverse of the original 

 cross, deserve special enumeration: 



