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varieties of Oda. Bradshawie, and the beautifully marked Oda. Lutetia (C. 
Noezliana x O. luteopurpureum). Oda. Joiceyi, one of the best results of 
crossing Oda. Coronation with O. promerens, flowers freely from a well- 
cultivated plant. 
There is probably no flower so beautiful and useful for decorative work 
as Odontoglossum crispum, and the pure-white varieties, as well as the 
yellow spotted ones, always meet with much appreciation. O. crispum 
xanthotes is represented by a choice variety distinguished by the name 
Perfect Gem, and there are others not far behind in competitive points. The 
well known and elegant hybrid called O. eximium has here a representative 
called Leonara;: it received an Award of Merit at the Chelsea Show, 1919, 
and produces handsome flowers with brilliant ruby-red blotching. 
- During the last few years the importance of this collection has increased 
considerable, and the near future will show that it contains many hybrids 
of exceptional beauty. All the plants, which comprise specimens as well as 
numerous propagated pieces, are making rapid headway, and much credit is 
due to their able cultivator, Mr. S. Lyne, who gained part of his knowledge 
on Orchids when attending to the collection of Mr. J. Gurney Fowler. 
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CYPRIPEDIUM ACAULE.—The following is taken from ‘“‘ Bog Trotting for 
Orchids,” by G. G. Niles: ‘‘ On June toth I ventured through the Glen of 
Comus to see the colony of the two hundred Moccasins. An albino—a 
pure white flower of Cypripedium acaule—was found recently by a lad in 
the district. He reports that he collected it amid a group of thirteen pink 
Moccasin flowers, apparently the only pale one of the sisters. Upon close 
examination of the structural parts of the albino, I observed that the left 
anther had not developed at all.. It appeared blasted in embryo, and now 
looked like a brown smeared spot. The sepals and lateral petals were of a 
rich chrome yellow. The dainty labellum was pure white, of a pearl-like 
texture in the veining, and tinged with chrome on the crest of the 
moccasin. It was indeed a strange, beautiful flower. I had always 
supposed that an albino of any species of Orchid was pure white throughout 
its parts, and was therefore surprised to find the sepals and side petals 
yellow. Albinos of this species have been collected in this district for four 
seasons. A colony, found near the schoolhouse, produced six white 
blossoms.' The children, calling them faded Pink Moccasins, believed 
them to have lost their colour after maturing. It appears from its 
persistence that the variety is permanent, and not the freak of a season. 
The abnormal anther may be present in all albinos. If so, it is evident 
that evolution is taking place in the pink Moccasin flower through the 
suppression of one anther in the genus Cypripedium, which possesses two, 
while all the other genera of the family have but one anther.” 
