248 LIST OF HYBRIDS. 



Cysepedium-crosses evidently refuse to combine the 

 characters of their parents. 



Dendrobium (nobile Cooksonianum )< nobile nobilius) 

 " producing ordinary forms of nobile." Sibyl "with 

 no trace of bigibbum." 



Epidendrum O'Brienianum " reverting to Epd. evec- 

 tum." 

 Epiphronitis Veitchii with " no trace of Sophronitis." 



Odopetalum, raised so far, turned out to be forms of 

 Zgp. Mackayi. 



Selenipedium pulchellum "resembling leucorrho- 

 dum." Porphyreum and albidulum from the same cross. 

 Sedenii, resembling longifolium Rcezlii (see page 77.) 

 See also remarks on page 19. 



Who is the first to introduce the blood of the wild 

 decideous Cypripedia into our race of hybrids? Would 

 not Cpd. spectabile with its vigorous nature, its stately 

 habit and its lovely bloom reward the hybridizer beyond 

 expectation? An entirely new race of Lady-slippers 

 should be raised with these species, neglected so far. 



Corrections in nomenclature were called for in two 

 more instances. Cypripedium Romulus had been estab- 

 lished previous to the naming of Grey's hybrid of that 

 name. I substitute " Remus. "Thunia Veitchiana mag- 

 nifica, as exhibited of Sander-origin, has nothing to do 

 with Veitchiana, and is registered as magnifica. 



