22 ORCHID HYBRIDS. 



coining of age, to partly offset any efforts of renaming 

 them. 



The only times that I have altered names attributed 

 to hybrids were those of which their record stood in 

 direct opposition to their name and would lead to 

 misapprehensions. As long as no plan has been agreed 

 upon to have secondary hybrids, which revert back to 

 either pollen or seed-bearing plant, arranged in a differ- 

 ent manner, I did not feel justified in casting thus 

 hybrids with seven-eights blood of one kind to the con- 

 trolling parent. Still I believe this to be the best plan, 

 and by looking over the number of hybrids related to 

 Spd. Sedenii, it becomes obvious that ere long we will 

 be forced to proceed upon such rule. But I, with the 

 first attempt to classify the hybrids of orchids, keep on 

 terra jirma, if for no other reason for that of avoiding at- 

 tacks upon my work. Whatever criticism may be called 

 forth by this proposition, I will gladly rearrange in the 

 supplement of next year's record what may be deemed 

 most acceptable. Hoping that this my discussion will 

 call for further and wider debate, I put together the 

 cases which I changed. If the authors of the following 

 hybrids attempted to make an arrangement on such* 

 lines, they should have stated it at the time of issuing 

 the certificates of birth in writing the descriptions. 

 They have not done so, and to do away with those per- 

 plexing cases I cut their names in two which, luckily, 

 in no case interferes with previous nomenclature. They 

 are 

 Cypripedium (Crossianum) Castle Hill. 



" (callosum) sublaeve, syn. Siamense. 



Selenipedium (macrochilum) giganteum not to be taken 



for Cypripedium giganteum. 

 Thunia (Veitchiana) superba. 



