34 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Mar.-APRIL, 1920. 
occupied distinct areas, O. ericetorum being essentially a heath plant, and 
usually easily separated. 
The hybrids formed a particularly interesting lot, and were shown in a 
series of beautiful paintings. Col. Godfery gave details of those met with 
by himself, and also those enumerated in the Reports of the Winchester 
College Natural History Society (details of which may be found at pp. 
142-3, 169-172 of our last volume). Concerning the hybrid between Orchis 
latifolia and Cceloglossum viride, he remarked that it had been found 
nowhere else in Britain, and it owed its existence to the fortunate accident 
that the former, an essentially marsh Orchid, grows high and dry on the 
chalk downs near Winchester, where the Cceloglossum is plentiful, the two 
plants, rather whiny: = in their natural habitats, thus coming 
into contact. 
Col. Godfery-also' gave some information about fertilisation by insects, 
A aibictt respecting which there is room for further observations. His 
concluding note-may be given verbatim, as we have not met with the 
eee before. 
“Mr. Burton, of Lodeiet Hall, Salop, tells me that while sitting in his 
glasshouse he saw a fly, Platychirus manicatus, visiting Aceras, and 
depositing eggs among aphides on the flowers. He watched to see whether 
they removed pollinia, and in every case found pollinia on their heads. A 
mumber of seed capsules were produced, and later he found larve of 
Platychirus energetically destroying the aphides. This curious case of 
indirect fertilisation may possibly explain the visits of Sarcophaga 
<arnosa, a fly which frequents decaying animal matter, to the flowers of 
— palletes, which so Stes Darwin. 
CRaderdcinivs Sa Blume.—The Aneectochili are grown as 
SenbeenNillcared plants, and are not often seen in bloom, though it is at 
this stage that their identity:can be ascertained. An interesting plant, 
bearing the name ofA. setaceus var. inornatus, has again thrown up-a spike 
at Kew, and as an obviously different plant, also in bloom, was labelled 
A. setaceus, it became necessary to compare them with authentically-named 
Specimens. The result.shows a curious case of confusion. A plant was 
figured in the Botanical Magazine in 1860 (t. 5280), under the name of 
A. setaceus var. inornatus, Hook., the name indicating a difference from the 
ordinary state of the plant, in which the upper surface of the leaves bears_a 
beautiful golden network. The text states that, ‘‘In a valuable case of 
plants lately received from the Botanic Garden of Java, ‘was the present 
remarkable variety, in-which the leaves, though of a rich coppery hue and 
velvety character, are wholly destitute of reticulations.” The varietal 
mame was obviously given in reference to this character, but it is a case of 
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