GENERA AND SPECIES EMPLOYED. 69 



Arthurianum, calophyllum, Lathamianum, 



Leeanum, nitens, Measuresianum, 



Morganise, oenanthum, Savageanum. 



selligerum, Tautzianum. 



The only ones of which I found mention to the con- 

 trary are the crosses of niveum and Lawrenceanum: 

 Antigone and Aphrodite. But how fallacious a con- 

 clusion a priori can turn out is taught to us by Cpd. 

 Lawrebel of which " the first flower resembled the pollen 

 parent (bellatulurn), but another plant showed just 

 opposite characteristic." Observations like these con- 

 firm the decision I made from the very outset of my 

 classification, that the progeny of two species belong 

 under one name only, and if found to vary sufficient to 

 admit special distinction, allow them varietal rank. 



Though I believe it possible to say at the time of cross- 

 ing two species what the result will be in shape, color 

 and plant, we will be safer in our supposition if we pre- 

 dict: one of the numbers is apt to display the characters 

 we attribute to the seedling. Look at the number of lo 

 in circulation, and be surprised how nearly they revert 

 to one species or other. At the RHS. meeting, No- 

 vember 14, 1893, Mr. Fitt, of Panshanger, Hertford, 

 showed Cpd. Leeanum (insigne X Spicerianum) " and 

 also a plant from the same seed-capsule which had re- 

 verted very near to Spicerianum." Still fresh in every- 

 body's mind is the remarkable case reported by Mr. 

 Wm. Grey, grower of Mr. Erastus Coming's orchids, at 

 Albany, N. Y. [0. R., Aug., '94]. He fertilized Gode- 

 froyse with niveum and reports that he " produced con- 

 color, niveum, Godefroyae, leucochilum, leucochilum pure 

 white, bellatulum, and nearly fifty distinct forms." Taken 

 cum grano satis, I do not see anything so remarkable in 

 this case. Let us remember that niveum and Godefroyse 



