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I am prepared for all the objection which can be raised 

 on account of my having decided to subdue in my list 

 this Cypripedium as a species. But who of you calls 

 Cpd. Sanderse anything but a variety of insigne? As 

 long as I have ranked the crosses raised with Boxalli as 

 varieties of the class which was formed previously with 

 villosum, or vice versa, I feel satisfied that justice has 

 been done to all those placing more importance in 

 that lady-slipper. Cpd. villosum aureum will impress 

 its progeny with characters as conspicuous as the black- 

 est Boxalli atratum could cause; and does not any good 

 orchid collection furnish an assortment of varieties 

 linking these two extremes so gradually that you could 

 not draw the line where one begins and the other left 

 off? 



Cpd. Elliottianum is nothing but a variety of Roth- 

 schildianum. 



The controversy over Cpd. excellens I have cut short 

 by retaining this name for the hybrid exhibited origi- 

 nally as excelsior. It amused me having decided in just 

 this way ere the number of the Orchid Review reached 

 me in which that journal proposed the very same. But 

 why go back and re-establish excelsior? That is a syno- 

 nym of Buchanianum, and to prevent any attempt of 

 christening another hybrid by that name, let us adhere 

 to excellens. 



The name of Cpd. Memoria Moensii x has been refused 

 recognition on account of its oddity; Moens and Moensii 

 have been suggested instead. We are so lucky to be 

 able to dispose of both Moens and his Memoria, as the 

 bastard is nothing but a duplicated Tityus of Messrs.* 

 Veitch. 



Cpd. Lucienianum x is one of those unfortunate 

 hybrids that does not remember who its father was, and 



