Juty-AucusT, 1920.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 99 
The present must be a good year for hardy Orchids, for several interest- 
ing notes about them appear in our pages, particularly one relating to the 
re-discovery of the long-lost Orchis Simia in Kent, after a long interval. 
When we received a Press-cutting announcing, ‘“‘ Rare Orchid found in 
Kent,” we not unnaturally expected it was an announcement of the event, 
but this was a mistake. ‘‘A Central News correspondent,” so it runs, 
‘reports that a fine specimen of the Lizard orchid (orchis hircina) has been 
found in the Ashford, Kent, district. This orchid was regarded for a long 
time as extinct in Great Britain, and a great stir was created by the 
discovery of a specimen in Kent a few years ago. Since then not more than 
one has been found in a season, and some years have passed without any 
being found.” The present season must be considered fortunate, for we 
have word of it from two other Kentish localities, one of them with some 
seventeen to twenty plants together, besides a few scattered specimens. We 
hope they will be taken care of. 
THOSE NAMES.—A Yorkshire evening paper, in an account of the 
Orchid exhibits at the York Gala, speaking of the group from Gatton Park, 
remarks, ‘‘The particular speciality was an Odonto Glossio Arden 
Tissimum, named in honour of the late Treasurer of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society.” Our correspondent concludes that the gentleman in 
question must have been a Mr. Tissi, but it looks like a struggle with the 
new nomenclature. ‘‘ Adontio Alcantarie” was also discovered in one of 
the Trade groups. 
Opontonta Biyou.—A charming little Odontonia, derived from Miltonia 
vexillaria and QOdontoglossum mirificum, has been sent by Messrs. 
Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath. It is a tiny plant, with two bulbs, 
and is bearing its first flower, which recalls the Miltonia in shape. The 
sepals and petals are elliptical, over an inch long, with rosy reticulated 
lines and dots on a white ground, and the lip is bilobed, somewhat undulate, 
over one and a-half inches broad, suffused with rose in front, white behind, 
and more or less dotted with rose in front of the yellow disc. It will be 
interesting to watch the development of the plant. 
EPIPACTIS VIRIDIFLORA, Rchb.—The February issue of the Journal of 
Botany contains a paper by Col. M. J. Godfery, F.L.S., with a plate 
showing E. viridiflora var leptochila, E. latifolia, and E. violacea, drawn 
from living specimens by Mrs. Godfery. It is shown that there are 
marked differences, both in the vegetative and reproductive organs of the 
plants, and that while E. latifolia and E. violacea are fertilised by wasps, 
E. viridiflora is largely self-fertilising. 
