100 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ APRIL, 1914. 
HE flowering of an interesting hybrid Ophrys, raised by M. Fernand 
Denis, Balaruc-les-Bains, Herault, France, from O. tenthredinifera 
crossed with the pollen of O. aranifera, was recorded two years ago (O.RG 
Xx. p. 199). It is believed to have been the first batch of hybrid Ophryses — 
obtained artificially. M. Denis now writes that he has over forty seedlings 
in flower or bud, and he sends the spikes of five of them, which prove 
extremely interesting, for they confirm the parentage of a wild hybrid 
which has been recorded from three localities in Italy, under the names of : 
©. Grampinii, Cortesi, and O. etrusca, Asch. & Grabn. The examples sent 
are quite intermediate between the parents, but show a certain amount of : 
variation between themselves. O. aranifera, it may be remarked, has green 
sepals and petals, and a dark brown lip with a pale, almost H-shaped 
marking on the disc, while O. tenthredinifera has large rose-purple flowers, 
with a broad lip, brown at the base, with a few pale markings, and 
yellowish green at the margin. The hybrids have greenish sepals and petals — 
with a slight rosy tinge, and the lip is suffused with light brown in three — 
cases, and darker in the other two, with much variation in the markings — 
on the disc. In one case there is a marked difference in the shape and — 
markings between two flowers on the same stem. We congratulate M. 
Denis on the success of his experiment, and hope that others will be made, — 
for there are many natural hybrids in this charming little genus. Camus — 
records as many as eighteen in his recent Monograph of the Orchids of 
Europe, and two or three of them are British, including O. hybrida, 
Pokorny, which was figured at page 233 of our thirteenth volume, together 
with its two parents, O. aranifera and O. muscifera. It may be added that 7 
no fewer than eleven of these eighteen hybrids are said to have O. aranifera — 
as one.parent. R.A.R. 
> Oto 
OrcHIDS AT KEW SEVENTY YEARS AGO.—The last issue of the Kew 
Bulletin states that a manuscript list of Stove and Greenhouse Plants in the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, by Alexander Smith, son of John Smith, — 
senior, for many years Curator of the Gardens, has been presented by Mr. © 
J. R. Jackson, formerly Curator of the Museums. It affords an interesting — 
glimpse of the Orchid collection at that period, though the species are not 
enumerated in detail. 
represented in it. 
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There is, however, a reference to a “ special list” ” of 4 
815 species, which is said to have included a large number of inconspicuous — 
kinds obtained from the famous Loddiges, and thus it will appear that the : 
collection has long been remarkable for the large number of species : 
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