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STANDARDIZED PLANT NAMES 



Orchid, continued 



Tulip O Cattleya citrina 



TwAYBLADE Liparis 



Lily T L. liliifolia 



LoESEL T L. loeseli 



Vanilla Vanilla 



Mexican V. . . .V. planifolia 



South American V. 



V. aromatica 

 Windmill O. 



Cirrhopetalum refractum 



ORCHID GENERA 



For convenience of reference the genera, 

 species, and varieties of Orchids are 

 here brought together in one consoli- 

 dated list. 



The American Joint Committee wishes 

 to acknowledge its great indebtedness 

 to the Ames Botanical Laboratory, 

 North Easton, Massachusetts, and to 

 Mr. F. Tracy Hubbard, Compiler, for 

 supplying the material for Orchid Gen- 

 era. A careful reading of Mr. Hubbard's 

 statement below will show the lamenta- 

 ble chaos and confusion now existing 

 in Orchid names, especially other than 

 American terrestrial forms, occasioned 

 by a lack of generally accepted standard 

 principles for plant naming, and the 

 almost inextricable tangle of Latin poly- 

 nomials occasioned by the efforts of the 

 hybridizer to carry the plant's pedigree 

 in the name, and his reluctance to trans- 

 late such polynomials into good Enghsh 

 common names. 



It is an unfortunate fact perhaps 

 that very few Orchids, excepting the 

 comparatively few terrestrial forms, are 

 known under common or vernacular 

 Enghsh names. Also, it is quite possible 

 that with many rare species, which will 

 probably never be generally distributed, 

 a common English name would serve 

 no useful purpose. 



It is only fair to state here that Mr. 

 Hubbard supplied common names for a 

 large percentage of the Orchids in this 

 list; but owing to the fact that usually 

 such common names were hteral trans- 

 lations of the Latin names (a device that 

 has proved rarely satisfactory in other 

 plant groups) , and for the other reasons 

 given above, it seemed to the American 

 Joint Committee wise to omit them in 

 Standardized Plant Names. 



Considering these severe handicaps, 

 and many others not discussed here, 

 Mr. Hubbard has done an exceedingly 

 creditable piece of work, and has con- 

 formed so far as could be done at the 

 present time to the principles practiced 

 by the American Joint Committee. 



Itisanotablebeginningandshouldlead 



ORCHID GENERA, continued 



to the formation of an expert committee 

 on Orchid nomenclature to the end of 

 simplifying and standardizing the names 

 of species, natural varieties, and horti- 

 cultural varieties of this remarkable and 

 beautiful family of plants. 



American Joint Committee 



Harlan P. Kelsey, Secretary. 



Statement of F. Tracy Hubbard 



The genera, species, and varieties of 

 Orchids in this list are in cultivation or 

 have been offered for sale in America. 



The Orchids present certain difficulties 

 in conforming to the precedent, estab- 

 lished in this work, of using common 

 names in alphabetic sequence for horti- 

 cultural varieties. 



In this list the exact spelling as applied 

 in horticulture or in the trade has been 

 followed, except in such cases as incor- 

 rect termination or obvious transposition 

 of letters, and if such spelling differs 

 from the accepted spelling it has been 

 attempted to point out, wherever pos- 

 sible, what was presumably intended. 

 Many minor misspellings have been 

 omitted as being superfluous. 



In the case of hybrids the parentage has 

 been designated, wherever known, and 

 Rolfe and Hurst's Orchid Stud-book has 

 been accepted as authoritative with 

 certain quahfications: 



1 . In some instances in which the horti- 

 cultural name of a parent differs from 

 the botanically correct name, the horti- 

 cultural name has been maintained; 

 for instance, Cattleya gigas, the horti- 

 cultural name, is adopted instead of 

 Cattleya warscewiczi, the older and 

 botanically correct name. 



2. The Stud-book gives only the spe- 

 cies name of the two parents. Where 

 clearly designated in Hterature, the va- 

 rietal form of the parent has been added. 



3. If one of the parents as commonly 

 cited is given a name which has been 

 made a synonym in this list, the name 

 here accepted is given, followed by the 

 synonym in parentheses. 



4. Where a varietal name has been 

 carelessly raised to the rank of a 

 species, the omission of the species name 

 has been rectified by its insertion in 

 brackets []. Furthermore, many hybrids 

 accepted horticulturally are in reality 

 minor variations of the same major cross 

 and are not considered worthy of sepa- 

 ration. Following the Stud-book, these 

 have been treated as synonyms, and 

 the name applied by the Stud-book, 

 even though in some instances not in 

 horticultural usage, has been adopted. 



Throughout the Orchid list certain 

 forms and abbreviations have been used. 

 Parentheses ( ) indicate that the en- 



