44 GENERiVL REVIEW OF THE ORCHIDE.*:. 



fjlorioxum^ and even Cypripediums sometimes manifest this change, 

 especially the hybrid C. Scth.ntii. {See also tlu; figure of Cattleija 

 (juttatd at p. 41). 



\ strange effect is produced in Cypripedium by the appearance of three 

 ])nuch-like petals instead of one. These productions are usually marvelled 

 at when seen, and frequently handed over to the bdtanist for post-mortem 

 examination,* but few or no attem})ts are made to piirpetuate them. It 

 would doubtless ])e a long and te<lious !)usiness to do so, l)ut so is 

 often the production of hybrids or seedlings. Tlie fixation of a regular 

 peloria of L(clia jiiirpnyata would result in the production of a flower 



Fi;:;. 5. In'f\gular pelnria in Di'.ndnilnuin twhile xixv. Cnihsnni nivm. 



not unlike Kaempfer's Iris, not with a single bloom but a panicle of 

 them ! — not with a comparatively evanescent flower, but with a cluster 

 lasting weeks in beauty I Surely it is worth while to make the attempt 

 to secure such a form. 



Andnecium — Column, Stamens, Style. It has been previously pointed 

 out that the column consists of a welding together into one mass of 

 six (potential) stamens and three styles {see page 36), and that of 

 the six stamens only one is usually visible, or two in Cypripedium. 

 The proof of this assertion, which to the ordinary looker-on seems 



* Many pages of the Manual would be required to chrouicle my own obligations to orchid 

 growers in this matter for the last quarter of a century.— M. T. M. 



