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grande was raised from Roezlii and caudatum, and 

 Sedenii from longifolium and Schlimii albiflorum, and 

 that leucorrhodum is the seedling of Roezlii crossed with 

 Schlimii albiflorum; the case is very natural indeed. 

 The Garden of May 26, '88, states, under W.'s signature, 

 the following: " I recently saw in Mr. Buchan's garden 

 at Southampton, a very good seedling of Spd. Roezlii, 

 which had been obtained from the same pod of seed 

 which produced Spd. Sedenii candidulum, evidently 

 proving that all the seeds were not crossed." Though 

 the latter part of that sentence is absurd, the statement 

 given in good faith is interesting enough. It would 

 have been desirable if a center of learning and teaching 

 like Kew had taken up a case like this and investigated 

 its record. About Spd. macrochilum x and Hardyanum 

 x I have spoken before. 



Spd. cardinale offers debate for which I never looked 

 when confronted with it. Mr. D. 0. Drewett wrote: 

 " Please, note that the proper name is cardinal^, not 

 cardinale. Reichenbach wrote on this point a very 

 bitter letter. CardinaKs means of the Cardinal or car- 

 dinal colored, cadinale means hinged. The mistake has 

 arisen from making the specific name agree in gender 

 with the generic, whereas it is an adjective descriptive." 

 .Nobody can be more ready than I to accept corrections 

 in nomenclature. But my old George's Dictionary went 

 to the store with the Perugian emblem when I left school 

 and thought I had done with Latin for good; and my 

 copy of the original description in Gard. Chron., Oct. 

 14, '82, states cardinale in two places. As it bore H. G. 

 Rchb. f. at the tail of it, I do not mind the mesmer- 

 izing of the gone spirit. True as this statement of Mr. 

 Drewett's is, and correct as the reasoning undoubtedly 

 would prove, I must have lost trace of the correction in 



