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as record. As the followers of this cross have reached 

 so large a number and are so inveterately established 

 with us, it was a lucky idea of Reichenbach to propose 

 a new name and thus lop off the heads of all the bas- 

 tards clamoring for recognition: he founded his lanceans. 

 I adopt it, partly because it has been established and 

 has to be dealt with, partly while laboring under the 

 conviction that it will be almost impossible to do away 

 with such names as Ruckerianum, Andersonianum, 

 Pollettianum and the fifty others. Call all of them 

 lanceans and make as many varieties of it as you may 

 feel inclined. It might be said that for the rest of the 

 Odontoglossa groups I should also recognize a collective. 

 None have been established, and none should be created. 

 No other class is as numerous, so that we can more easily 

 adapt ourselves to the use of the ones in vogue. The 

 collective names are terms peculiar to botanists, and not 

 welcome as a substitute for the first established names. 



The crosses of luteopurpureum and crispum are best 

 known as Wilckeanum. DenisoniaB claims priority, and 

 while I know that the gardening world will be slow to 

 accept such substitution, it nevertheless has to take first 

 rank. 



I give separately all those hybrids across the records 

 of which I came, and which have not yet been spoken 

 of by Mr. Rolfe. Future supplements will bring what- 

 ever corrections might have been made to that list. 



Selenipedium, 



In spite of the ruling tendency amongst gardeners to 

 range this genus under Cypripedium, it cannot be up- 

 held as long as we recognize at all any botanical distinc- 

 tion. La3lia and Cattleya are more nearly related than 

 these two genera. 



