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has been noted by other observers. . . . Whether we can separate 

 the eastern C. maculata from the western is a question for serious 

 consideration. That there is a difference between them, nobody 

 who has made a careful study of the subject will deny, but if a 

 geographical demarcation can be made which will show that the 

 two forms occupy distinct or practically distinct ranges I would 

 favor specific differentiation." 



There is a variety, C. maculata var. flavida (C. multiflora 

 flavida Waters, Plant World, Nov., 1903) in which the plant is 

 light yellow and the lip lacks the purple spots. Three years 

 later Suksdorf described an apparently analogous form (C multi- 

 flora V. sulphurea) from the northwest. 



According to the present rules, if the western plant is con- 

 sidered a distinct species it will stand as C. grahhami; but if a 

 subspecies only, it will be C. maculata occidentalis {C. multiflora 

 occidentalis Lindl., Gen. and Sp. Orch., 534; 1840.). 



T. D. A. COCKERELL 



REVIEWS 



Wild Flower Preserves * 



Billerica. — This number is called "The North Shore, Illinois 

 Edition," and includes parts of Chicago and its adjacent towns. 

 The title page gives a picture of Cypripedium hirsutum, with the 

 statement beneath it that "The yellow lady's slipper is happiest 

 in the wild. Don't dig it or pick it, or you will lose it altogether." 

 With this auspicious introduction, the director states that "the 

 whole tendency of the days that have passed in the development 

 and maintenance of public parks and most private estates, has 

 been to destroy natural conditions and the native wild flowers, 

 and to substitute turf and exotic plants in their place." He also 

 believes that "what we need are more reservations that are not 

 parks from the gardener's point of view, but those in which the 

 existing wild flower, shrub, and tree growth will be saved and 

 helped to develop the greatest beauty by judicious thinning, 

 transplanting, seeding and fertilizing as the nature-lover, with a 



* By Warren H. Manning, Billerica, 4: 3, No. 6, November, 1915. 



